Materials Supervisor: Lead Inventory & Flow

M.C. Dean, Inc.; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 93,840 - 117,300; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Medical, dental, vision, life and long

Paid time off

401(k) Retirement Plan

Tuition reimbursement

Military Reserve pay offset

Paid maternity leave

Job summary

Modular Mission Critical, MMC's manufacturing campus for M.C. Dean, is seeking a Materials Supervisor to oversee the Market Place, MMC Warehouse, Receiving, and related material flow.

You will lead a defined team, ensure accurate inventory transactions, and align activities to production priorities. Collaborate across departments to resolve issues, support ECNs, new SKUs, and launches, and drive continuous improvement in inventory control.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, Operations Management, or related field.
• 5+ years of front‑line supervisory experience in a high‑volume manufacturing, warehouse, materials management, or supply chain environment.
• Experience supervising material handling, warehouse, receiving, dock, inventory control, or production support employees.
• Detailed understanding of MRP/ERP or inventory control systems, inventory transactions, cycle counts, physical inventory, bin reconciliation, and discrepancy resolution.
• Working knowledge of receiving, storage, internal distribution, line‑side presentation, FIFO, stock rotation, Kanban, Min/Max, material staging, and visual inventory systems.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel, with the ability to create or analyze reports, dashboards, KPIs, shortages, variances, and corrective actions.

Responsibilities

• Supervise 10–15 direct reports across Market Place, MMC Warehouse, Receiving, docks, and assigned storage/staging areas.
• Train and monitor materials personnel to ensure inventory transactions, material deliveries, receiving, staging, storage, and system updates are completed correctly and on time.
• Manage material flow across production, procurement, external distributors, suppliers, facility transfers, docks, and 30K staging to support timely material availability.
• Maintain inventory accuracy by supervising cycle counts, physical inventory, audits, bin and transaction reconciliations, and corrective actions for variances, shortages, excess/negative inventory, and container discrepancies.
• Create and use reports, dashboards, and analysis to monitor material KPIs, marketplace shortages, inventory accuracy, usage trends, stock levels, and process compliance.
• Maintain organized material storage and point‑of‑use presentation through 5S, visual inventory systems, FIFO, stock rotation, labeling, repack activities, Kanban, pull‑loop adjustments, and Min/Max recommendations.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Product Management, Program Management, Procurement, and Scheduling on work cell layout, line‑side presentation, edit reports, new SKUs, ECNs, new model launches, and build‑out projects.
• Support Kaizen events, process creation or updates, practical best practices, and continuous improvement efforts that improve inventory accuracy, material flow, space utilization, productivity, and quality.

Skills

Supervisory experience

MRP/ERP knowledge

Microsoft Excel

Communication

Multitasking

Report writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, Operations Management, or related field

Tools

MRP/ERP systems

Inventory management software

MS Office (Excel)

Job description

Modular Mission Critical, MMC's manufacturing campus for M.C. Dean, is seeking a Materials Supervisor to oversee the Market Place, MMC Warehouse, Receiving, and related material flow.

You will lead a defined team, ensure accurate inventory transactions, and align activities to production priorities. Collaborate across departments to resolve issues, support ECNs, new SKUs, and launches, and drive continuous improvement in inventory control.