Materials Supervisor - 1st Shift

Generac Power Systems Inc; United States; On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Generac Power Systems Inc seeks a Materials Supervisor on 1st shift at our Berlin, WI facility. You will oversee inbound receiving, material movements, warehousing, and end-of-line fulfillment to production lines, driving improvements in cycle counts and on-time delivery.

Responsibilities include leading materials staff, implementing standard processes, coordinating with Quality, Purchasing and Production, and acting as SAP SuperUser to optimize stock accuracy and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
• 2 years of materials leadership.
• 2 years of experience leading teams or organizing tasks.
• Experience with SAP or ERP systems and Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely material flow within the facility and timely delivery of receiving materials from other locations, and prepare parts 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 the achievement of key performance indicators.
• Manage and optimize daily warehousing operations including staging, cycle count, and storage of materials.
• Ensure efficient and accurate materials presentation to support production operations.
• Partner with Quality, Purchasing and Production to develop effective solutions to customer quality and delivery issues and to achieve objectives and KPIs.
• Maintain high-level 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 the assigned functional area.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Accountability

Problem solving

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

SAP

ERP systems

Microsoft Office

Job description

We believe power is a promise - a shared commitment to be there for others when it matters most. For more than 65 years, we've turned big ideas into solutions that help protect homes, strengthen businesses and build a more resilient, efficient, sustainable energy future.

Ready to Power a Smarter World with us? We are seeking a Materials Supervisor to lead 1st Shift at our manufacturing facility in Berlin, WI. The Materials Supervisor is responsible for all internal material flow from incoming receiving/inspection to line-side presentation for production, including end-of-line pick, pack and ship, de-trashing, all material movements, supermarket sizing and replenishment, and order picking for intra-plant deliveries. Success in this role is defined by driving significant continuous improvement in material handling, inventory accuracy, cycle counting and timely transactional reporting, as measured by ongoing improvements in delivery performance (internal and external), cycle count progress, cycle count accuracy, uninterrupted material movement for production lines and efficient use of labor resources.

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely material flow within the facility and timely delivery of receiving materials from other locations, and prepare parts 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 the achievement of key performance indicators.
• Manage and optimize daily warehousing operations including staging, cycle count, and storage of materials.
• Ensure efficient and accurate materials presentation to support production operations.
• Partner with Quality, Purchasing and Production to develop effective solutions to customer quality and delivery issues and to achieve objectives and KPIs.
• Maintain high-level 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 the assigned functional area.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience using SAP or an equivalent ERP system (Oracle, JD Edwards, Microsoft Dynamics) and Microsoft Office.
• Formal leadership or team development training.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Relationship Building and Earning Trust – Consistently follows through on team commitments, communicates, and demonstrates accountability.
• Accountability – Remains outcome focused, holds the team accountable while removing barriers to success.
• Ask, Listen, and Follow Up – Actively listens, questions to help others understand, shows care/concern, and closes the loop.
• Drives action and alignment using coaching techniques, reinforces the team’s progress and development.
• Inspire, Motivate and Recognize – Teaches others new tasks and is self-aware of strengths and developmental opportunities; celebrates individual successes.
• Conflict Management and Resolution – Influences employees to collaborate and achieve goals as a group; asks questions, remains unbiased, encourages unconventional suggestions; diffuses conflict as it arises rather than avoids it and focuses on solving the problem.
• Identify, Engage and Retain – Creates an open and honest work environment, providing others an opportunity to develop and grow.
• Change Agent – Consistently optimistic about the ability to change in order to improve a product or service; uses the Voice of Customer (VOC) to validate ideas; works well autonomously and in a team, leads change by promoting the value of transformation.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, use hands to manipulate objects, tools or controls, talk and hear; walk, stoop, crouch, bend and reach above shoulders. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds unassisted and up to 100 pounds with assistance, waist high, up to 10 feet away. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and depth perception. The employee will be working in the typical manufacturing environment including seasonal variation in temperatures and occasional exposure to manufacturing fumes or by-products. The employee must comply with assigned location PPE requirements, including safety glasses, hearing protection, gloves, clothing and shields for required tasks and closed-toed or safety shoes as required by facility safety policies.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.