Materials Operations Lead

DR Power LLP; Belvidere (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Generac is seeking a Materials Lead to optimize material flow, supervise warehousing, and drive inventory accuracy in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

You will collaborate with Quality, Purchasing and Production to resolve delivery issues, implement efficiency improvements, and act as SAP SuperUser to support operations. A Bachelor’s degree and leadership experience are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• 2 years of materials leadership.
• 2 years of experience leading teams, developing people or organizing tasks.

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely material flow within the facility and timely delivery of incoming materials for shipment to other facilities.
• Develop and implement standard processes and strategies that enable production efficiency improvements.
• Lead, supervise, and direct materials staff development through education, training, coaching, mentoring and certification in the execution of improvement priorities and KPIs.
• Manage and optimize daily warehousing operations including staging, cycle count, and storage of materials.
• Oversee inventory management and control, accuracy, and established inventory guidelines and procedures.
• Ensure efficient and accurate materials presentation to support production operations.
• Partner with Quality, Purchasing and Production to develop effective and efficient solutions to customer quality and delivery issues and to achieve objectives and KPIs.
• Ensure high level of communication between planning, purchasing and production to ensure a high degree of customer satisfaction.
• Lead and improve Material/Inventory Management best practices including Warehouse Management (Cycle Count Accuracy, Transactions, Bar Coding, RFID) and Fill Rate.
• Maintain appropriate staffing levels for daily material management balancing resource capacity to workload.
• Act as SAP SuperUser within functional area as assigned.

Skills

Relationship Building

Accountability

Ask Listen Follow Up

Inspire Motivate

Conflict Management

Identify Engage Retain

Change Agent

SAP

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

SAP

Job description

Generac is seeking a Materials Lead to optimize material flow, supervise warehousing, and drive inventory accuracy in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

You will collaborate with Quality, Purchasing and Production to resolve delivery issues, implement efficiency improvements, and act as SAP SuperUser to support operations. A Bachelor’s degree and leadership experience are required.