Materials Team Lead - 1st Shift - $32.10/hr

Stryker Corporation; Arlington (TN); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Benefits

Job summary

Stryker Corporation is seeking a Materials/Logistics professional in Arlington, TN to coordinate material availability and delivery to support uninterrupted production. The role emphasizes inventory accuracy, cycle counts, and close collaboration with production, planning, and quality teams.

Candidates should have a high school diploma or GED and 5+ years in manufacturing, distribution, or logistics, with JD Edwards experience. The position offers a competitive hourly rate and benefits.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED.
• 5+ years in manufacturing, distribution, or logistics.
• Ability to influence team performance to meet production targets.
• Experience with cycle counting and inventory reconciliation.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate material availability, staging, and delivery to support uninterrupted production and minimize downtime.
• Promote inventory accuracy by supporting material movements, ERP transactions, and work order processes.
• Investigate discrepancies and support cycle counts, physical inventories, and audits.
• Use usage trends to optimize stocking strategies and align inventory with production plans.
• Ensure proper material handling, FIFO, and GMP/GDP traceability compliance.
• Serve as a cross-functional liaison among materials, production, planning, warehouse, and quality teams.

Skills

Inventory management

Process improvement

Cross-functional collaboration

Root cause analysis

Education

High school diploma or GED

Associates or Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

JD Edwards (JDE)

Job description

Work Flexibility

Onsite Schedule: Monday – Friday 6:00am - 2:30pm, OT as needed

Remote – Role allows you to work the majority to 100% of time from an alternate workplace. These roles could have travel expectations, and you must work within the country of the job requisition location.

Field-based – You can expect to regularly work a majority to 100% of time at customer facilities and has a set territory or expectation to travel within a set boundary. Almost all sales roles would likely be qualified as field-based.

Onsite – Role is 100% located at a Stryker facility. Some ad hoc flexibility may be available depending on role, level, and job requirements. Manufacturing roles and any role that requires physical presence at the office would qualify under this category.

Hybrid – You can expect to regularly work in both an alternate workplace and a Stryker facility. Roles that are partially remote or co-located would qualify as hybrid, and the expectation to be onsite would be defined and agreed upon by your manager/supervisor.

What you will do

• Coordinate material availability, staging, and delivery to support uninterrupted production and minimize production downtime.
• Promote inventory accuracy by supporting material movements, ERP transactions, and work order processes (backflushing, transfers, scrap, and completions).
• Assist in identifying and resolving inventory discrepancies through root cause analysis while supporting cycle counts, physical inventories, and audit activities.
• Leverage material usage trends and production demand insights to help optimize stocking strategies and align inventory levels with production plans.
• Reinforce proper material handling, storage practices, FIFO practices, and compliance with GMP, GDP, and traceability requirements.
• Serve as a cross-functional point of coordination between materials, production, planning, warehouse, and quality teams to ensure alignment and material readiness.
• Support the training and development of the Materials team, fostering accountability, accuracy, and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to process improvement and Lean initiatives to enhance material flow, reduce inventory levels, improve space utilization, and enhance line-side efficiency.

What you need

Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED
• Minimum of five (5) years relevant work experience, which can include manufacturing, distribution, or logistics experience.
• Demonstrated ability to influence team performance and contribute to achieving production targets.
• Proven experience with cycle counting, inventory audits, and reconciliation, with the ability to investigate discrepancies and maintain a high level of inventory accuracy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Associates or Bachelor’s Degree Six (6) plus years of manufacturing, distribution, or logistics experience.
• Experience working with ERP systems, preferably JD Edwards (JDE), including inventory transactions, material movements, and production-related processes.

$32.10/hr plus bonus potential and benefits.

Travel Percentage: None

Stryker Corporation

Stryker Corporaion is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability. Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better.

We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes.

We are proud to be named one of the World’s Best Workplaces!

For more information, visit: www.stryker.com