Sr. Coordinator - Materials Logistics

Dematic; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 51,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career Development

Competitive Compensation and Benefits

Pay Transparency

Global Opportunities

Job summary

Dematic seeks a Material Logistics professional to support Grand Rapids, Plano, or Milwaukee locations. The role requires experience in material order entry, coordinating flow from vendors to job sites, and leading materials planning. Associate degree required, Bachelor’s preferred, with about 5 years in related work.

Responsibilities include KPI-driven updates, process improvements, and cross-team collaboration. Base pay range posted is $50,800–$69,580.

Qualifications

• Associates Degree required; Bachelor's Degree preferred.
• 5 years of successful experience in a directly related field and successful demonstration of key responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Act as a direct communication link with the controls engineering team for material order entry and processing of material needs for the job site.
• Coordinate the flow of materials and equipment from vendors to the job site.
• Review and plan requirements for ordering materials.
• Coordinate and control the materials planning function.
• Support bi-weekly team calls with KPI's, open issues and next steps for actions needed to ensure materials are ordered and delivered to site on time.
• Provide weekly updates on priority orders and assist in root cause analysis for risk/priority orders.

Education

Associates Degree required; Bachelor's Degree preferred

Job description

Dematic is looking for a Material Logistics professional located within our Grand Rapids, Plano, or Milwaukee locations. In this role, the successful candidate must have demonstrated success in a similar role and industry. Additionally, Dematic is seeking a candidate with the following specific background/requirements. We offer:

• Career Development
• Competitive Compensation and Benefits
• Pay Transparency
• Global Opportunities

Learn More Here: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/about/careers/what-we-offer

Dematic provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $50,800 - $69,580 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.

Tasks and Qualifications:

What You Will Do In This Role :

• Act as a direct communication link with he controls engineering team for material order entry and processing of material needs for the job site.
• Coordinates the flow of materials and equipment from vendors to job site
• Reviews and plans requirements for ordering materials
• Coordinates and controls the materials planning function
• Solves complex issues by defining opportunities and identifying solutions
• Facilitates communication between Engineering, Project Management and Procurement
• Work with our Business Integration team to define, launch and manage new processes and procedures that affect controls material order entry
• Support bi-weekly team calls with KPI's, open issues and next steps for actions needed to ensure materials are ordered and delivered to site on time
• Support on-boarding of new team members to ensure system compliance and training is in place. Provide guidance on daily tasks as needed
• Keep standards home page up to date and ensure within adherence and compliance (on a project level)
• Provide weekly updates on priority orders, material entries, other as needed. Assist in root cause analysis for risk / priority orders. Follow up on root cause and how to assist in reduction of red-line items
• Present as needed in CE all hands meeting, other meetings as needed to provide direction to other team members regarding materials entry / priority tasks
• Other leadership / investigative actions as needed or defined by manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Interface with Engineering for shipment information and ordering priorities
• Coordinate with Project Management for delivery sequence and expediting
• Track parts requirements related to projects
• Provide feedback to Project Team on exceptions (late shipments)
• Order Entry for priority orders; verify priority reason indicators
• Expediting for priority orders
• Verify stock availability on priority order entry requests
• Order Entry for standard orders
• Return Authorizations
• Coordinate shipping instructions and modes of transportation required to ensure equipment arrives at job site when needed
• Provide shipping information to Project Teams
• Process mark number cancellations and reissues
• Process new part number requests when required
• Communicate project needs to Procurement
• Direct Engineering to correct procedures and forms
• Ensure process standards of compliance are met
• Work with the leadership teams to define and track priority orders, KPI and root cause analysis

What We are Looking For:

• Associates Degree required; Bachelor's Degree preferred. Experience may substitute for education.
• 5 years of successful experience in a directly related field and successful demonstration of Key Responsibilities as presented above.