Materials Manager

Korpack; St. Charles (IL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Korpack is seeking a Materials Manager to own inventory truth end-to-end across multiple facilities. You will oversee every receipt, put-away, transfer, WO transaction, and shipment, ensuring real-time alignment with system records for customers who view inventory by work order.

The role leads a multi-shift team of 25–30, ensuring SQF compliance and standardization across sites. You will partner with production leadership to align materials flow with production needs and drive continuous

Qualifications

• Own inventory truth end to end across people, process and numbers.
• Lead a team of roughly 25–30 across all shifts and develop supervisors.
• Experience with SQF inbound inspection and outbound verification.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all inventory transactions: receiving, shipping, movements, WO transactions, adjustments.
• Ensure real-time reconciliation between floor operations and the warehouse system.
• Lead and coordinate Receiving/Shipping Supervisors, Material Handling Supervisors, and Production Control Supervisors across shifts.
• Maintain 24/7 ownership with on-site days and on-call escalations to keep operations running smoothly.

Job description

Our Mission and Purpose

Our mission is clear: to be North America’s premier packaging solutions provider, simplifying client operations with innovative, technology-driven solutions. We are fueled by the values instilled by Nick Novy, aiming to not just meet but exceed industry benchmarks. Our purpose is to empower our customers with smarter business decisions through our expertise.

Korpack’s Promise: FAST and Beyond

Korpack stands for more than just speed. Our F.A.S.T methodology - Fearless, Adaptable, Simplistic, and Technology-driven - is a testament to our approach toward complex challenges. We’re not afraid to dive deep and tackle the toughest packaging puzzles with agility and clarity, all while harnessing the power of technology.

Culture: The Korpack Difference

In the heart of Korpack, there’s a culture that thrives on agility, innovation, and relentless pursuit of excellence. We’re not your typical packaging company. Our start-up spirit combined with our industry experience makes us uniquely dynamic. We embrace challenges, turning them into opportunities to innovate and grow. Our team, akin to a close-knit family, is dedicated to achieving success for our clients. We believe in building relationships based on trust, integrity, and mutual respect.

About The Job

This is not a warehouse manager job with a bigger title. At Korpack, the Materials Manager is one of the two seats that run a building - the Production Manager owns making the product; you own everything the materials do when they're not being converted. Every receipt, every put-away, every transfer, every work-order transaction, every shipment: if inventory moves or changes state inside your four walls, it's yours - and what the system says must match what's on the rack, in real time, because our customers see their inventory work-order by work-order and we've promised them no delay.

Korpack is a food-grade (SQF) co-packer for leading consumer brands, doubling into 350,000 sq ft across two facilities. We are hiring one Materials Manager per building - Madsen runs multi-shift today; PR runs one shift and is ramping fast, so that seat is a build as much as a job. If owning inventory truth end to end - people, process, and numbers - is the job you've been building toward, keep reading.

THE JOURNEY

Own Inventory Truth

• Every inventory transaction in the building - receiving, shipping, material movements, WO transactions, adjustments - accurate, same-day, real-time. The floor and the system reconcile both directions, every day.
• Our customers get per-work-order, real-time inventory visibility. That promise runs through your team.

Lead Four Functions

• Receiving and Shipping Supervisors (one each, all shifts), Material Handling Supervisors across shifts, and Production Control Supervisors with their coordinators - the materials-management side of the production process.
• A team of roughly 25-30 across all shifts. You develop supervisors who own their shift when you're not standing there.

Run the Standards

• Cross-site standards are set once (by the Director and our functional standards owner); your building executes them exactly - SQF inbound inspection, seal integrity, outbound verification, reason codes, catch-weight conversions.
• 24/7 ownership from a day-based seat: M-F on-site with on-call for escalations - but the real job is putting supervisors in place so capable that the show runs without you. If your phone rings every night, the system isn't built yet.

Work the Production Seam

• Your PC Supervisors are shift peers to the Production Managers - the floor makes it, your team makes it official. You keep that partnership productive at the manager level.
• Line-feed priority is absolute: a production line waiting on materials is the most expensive problem in the building.

What Success Looks Like

• The dock, the racks, and the system reconcile both directions daily - zero ghost inventory, zero invisible product
• Cycle counts (run independently by Finance) confirm your accuracy instead of correcting it
• Production never waits on materials; customers never wait on inventory truth
• SQF inbound records, seals, and outbound verification audit-ready any day, unannounced

Our Commitment to You

At Korpack, customer delight is not just a goal; it’s our way of doing business. We are committed to delivering quality services consistently, on time, and maintaining enduring relationships. Our endeavor is to continually enhance our performance and adhere to the highest statutory and regulatory standards.