Senior Lean Material Flow Architect

Cornerstone Building Brands; Rocky Mount (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Inclusive, collaborative environment

Bragging rights – market leader

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Cornerstone Building Brands is seeking a Material Flow Pillar Lead to optimize the end-to-end material flow from receiving to point of use. The role blends manufacturing logistics with structured continuous improvement, training the pillar method and leading tools to reduce shortages, WIP, and schedule disruption.

Ideal candidates bring strong manufacturing logistics knowledge, analytical ability and cross-functional leadership to improve material availability and flow across planning,

Qualifications

• Experience in manufacturing logistics, materials, supply chain, warehouse operations, production control or manufacturing operations.
• Demonstrated experience solving material-availability or process-flow problems.
• Exposure to Lean, continuous improvement or structured problem-solving methods.
• Strong analytical and organizational capability.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and lead change on the manufacturing floor.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Material Flow pillar implementation and associated Master Plan.
• Establish baseline losses related to shortages, WIP, inventory, material touches, travel, lead time, overtime and delivery performance.
• Develop and maintain a Plan for Every Part (PFEP).
• Map current material flow using Value Stream Mapping, process mapping and spaghetti/route analysis.
• Analyze material shortages and interruptions using Pareto and structured problem solving.
• Evaluate and improve material feeding strategies.
• Develop and implement appropriate FIFO, pull, supermarket, Kanban/two-bin and controlled-buffer systems.
• Improve point-of-use material presentation and line-side inventory.
• Establish standard material-delivery routes, replenishment frequencies and route timing.
• Determine appropriate replenishment quantities and inventory levels.

Skills

Manufacturing logistics

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Structured problem-solving

Lean / continuous improvement

Tools

PFEP

Kanban

Supermarkets

FIFO

Milk runs / material routes

VSM / inventory optimization

Job description

Cornerstone Building Brands is seeking a Material Flow Pillar Lead to optimize the end-to-end material flow from receiving to point of use. The role blends manufacturing logistics with structured continuous improvement, training the pillar method and leading tools to reduce shortages, WIP, and schedule disruption.

Ideal candidates bring strong manufacturing logistics knowledge, analytical ability and cross-functional leadership to improve material availability and flow across planning,