Materials & Scheduling Manager

Confidential Careers; College Station, Bryan (TX, TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Careers in Texas is seeking a Materials & Scheduling Manager to own the flow of materials from receiving through warehouse storage, production support, WIP, packaging, and outbound shipment. Improve inventory accuracy, WIP visibility, and material movement with practical, scalable systems.

This hands-on leader will coach a growing team, build durable standards, and ensure on-time delivery in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. On-site role in the Greater College Station area.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in warehouse, logistics, materials, inventory, or related manufacturing leadership
• Strong manufacturing experience with material movement, WIP, production flow, and inventory accuracy
• Demonstrated understanding of pull systems in a manufacturing environment
• Experience improving cycle counts, ERP discipline, and SOPs
• Experience with Lean manufacturing principles including Kanban and 5S

Responsibilities

• Own material flow from receiving through warehouse storage, WIP movement, packaging, and shipping
• Improve inventory accuracy, cycle counting, ERP discipline, material traceability, and warehouse organization
• Strengthen material flow and pull systems to improve visibility and reduce unnecessary movement
• Simplify processes and support stronger pull systems, visual management, SOPs, and warehouse standards
• Lead receiving, warehouse, scheduling, packaging, and shipping with clear accountability
• Partner cross-functionally on material flow, lead times, rush orders, and execution priorities
• Lead, coach, and develop team members across shipping, receiving, warehouse, and scheduling
• Maintain production schedule and surface conflicts early for action

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic planning

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Location: Greater College Station/Bryan, TX Area

Full-Time | On-Site

About the Company

We’ve been retained to conduct a search for our client, a fast-growing precision manufacturing company in the Greater College Station/Bryan, TX area.

This organization produces highly engineered industrial components for demanding, quality-driven applications. The business has grown quickly and is investing in stronger systems, better operational discipline, and leadership that can help the organization scale without losing accountability, quality, or responsiveness.

This is a hands-on environment with high standards, visible leadership, and a strong push toward cleaner processes, better data, and more consistent execution. The company values leaders who are proactive, collaborative, and committed to building sustainable systems that support long-term growth.

About the Opportunity

This is a high-impact materials leadership opportunity for someone who enjoys bringing order to complex manufacturing operations.

The Materials & Scheduling Manager will own the flow of materials from receiving through warehouse storage, production support, WIP, packaging, and outbound shipment. This role is not just about managing warehouse activity. It is about improving inventory accuracy and visibility, strengthening control of WIP, simplifying material movement, supporting effective pull systems, and creating practical systems that help the operation run more predictably.

The company has grown quickly, and the current environment needs stronger ownership around inventory accuracy, WIP movement, scheduling, and process simplification. The right leader will be hands-on, structured, calm under pressure, capable of coaching and developing a growing team, and capable of building standards that last.

This role is ideal for someone who has successfully led materials, material flow, inventory, warehouse, or supply chain operations within a manufacturing environment and understands how materials move through production from receipt through shipment. It is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys improving systems, developing people, and creating sustainable processes rather than simply reacting to daily issues.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will serve as the key leader responsible for material movement, inventory accuracy, WIP control and visibility, warehouse organization, packaging flow, outbound shipping, and production scheduling. You will work closely with Operations, Production, Quality, Sales, and Engineering to ensure materials are available, visible, traceable, and moving efficiently through the business. Success in this role will come from simplifying complicated processes, improving inventory accuracy and material flow, strengthening pull systems and WIP visibility, coaching developing team members, and creating practical systems that make the operation more predictable every day.

Key responsibilities include:

• Own material flow from receiving through warehouse storage, WIP movement, packaging, and shipping
• Improve inventory accuracy, cycle counting, ERP discipline, material traceability, and warehouse organization
• Strengthen material flow and pull systems to improve visibility, reduce unnecessary movement, and support production needs
• Simplify overly complicated processes and support stronger pull systems, visual management, SOPs, and warehouse standards
• Lead receiving, warehouse, scheduling, packaging, and shipping functions with clear expectations and accountability
• Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Production, Quality, Sales, and Engineering on material flow, lead times, rush orders, and execution priorities
• Lead, coach, train, and develop team members across shipping, receiving, warehouse, and scheduling
• Maintain the production schedule and surface material, capacity, labor, or customer-demand conflicts early enough for the organization to respond

Qualifications

The ideal candidate brings strong manufacturing materials leadership experience, practical warehouse and inventory discipline, and the ability to coach a developing team. This person should be able to walk into a complex operation, quickly recognize where the gaps are, ask thoughtful questions, and build practical systems that improve accuracy, flow, accountability, and execution. They do not need constant direction to see what needs to be improved, but they should be collaborative enough to learn the business before making changes that affect the broader operation.

Qualifications include:

• 10+ years of warehouse, logistics, materials, inventory, supply chain, or related manufacturing leadership experience
• Strong manufacturing experience with material movement, WIP, production flow, inventory accuracy, and operational traceability
• Demonstrated understanding and practical experience with pull systems in a manufacturing environment
• Proven ability to improve cycle counts, ERP discipline, warehouse organization, SOPs, visual controls, and process standards
• Experience with Lean manufacturing principles, including Kanban, 5S, and continuous improvement
• Experience owning or working closely with production scheduling in a manufacturing environment
• Strong people leadership skills with the ability to coach, communicate clearly, and build accountability
• Experience in precision manufacturing, technical manufacturing, or custom industrial components is preferred
• International shipping documentation experience is helpful but not the top priority