Materials Supervisor - 2nd Shift

Generac Power Systems Inc; Town of Eagle (WI); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Generac Power Systems Inc in Town of Eagle, WI, is seeking a Materials Leader to oversee all internal material flow and inventory management. The role involves improving production efficiency, team development, and maintaining high communication between departments.

The ideal candidate will have at least a Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of leadership experience in materials. This is a great opportunity to drive improvements and ensure smooth operations in a manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• 2 years of materials leadership.
• 2 years of experience leading teams, developing people or organizing tasks.

Responsibilities

• Manage all internal material flow from receiving to production.
• Drive material handling and inventory accuracy improvements.
• Oversee inventory management and establish guidelines.
• Ensure timely material deliveries and flow within the facility.
• Develop strategies for production efficiency improvements.

Skills

Relationship Building and Earning Trust

Accountability

Conflict Management and Resolution

Change Agent

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

SAP

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Drive continuous improvement in material handling, inventory accuracy, cycle counting, and timely transactional reporting.
• Oversee inventory management and control, accuracy, and established inventory guidelines and procedures.
• Ensure timely material flow within the facility as well as timely delivery in receiving material from other locations and preparation for shipment of parts 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 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 of communication between planning, purchasing and production to ensure 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 functional area as assigned.

Qualifications

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

• Preferred Qualifications:
• Previous experience using SAP or 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, holding 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 loop.
• Drives action and alignment using coaching techniques, reinforces team’s progress/development.
• Inspire, Motivate and Recognize – teaches others new tasks and is self‑aware of strengths/developmental opportunities, celebrates individual successes.
• Conflict Management and Resolution – influences employees to collaborate and achieve goals, remains unbiased, encourages unconventional suggestions, diffuses conflict as it arises.
• Identify, Engage and Retain – creates an open and honest work environment, providing others opportunity to develop and grow.
• Change Agent – consistently optimistic about the ability to change to improve a product/service, uses the voice of customer 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 talk and hear; use hands to manipulate objects or controls. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders, lift up to 25-50 pounds, and perform frequent continuous computer‑based work requiring periods of sitting, close vision and ability to adjust focus.

EEO Statement

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.