supervisor materials - 2nd Shift

Generac; Belvidere (IL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Generac is seeking a Materials/Inventory Leader at the Belvidere, IL facility to drive material flow, inventory accuracy, and warehouse operations. You will lead a team, partner with Quality, Purchasing and Production, and act as SAP SuperUser to enable improvements in delivery and production efficiency.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with several years in materials leadership and team development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience is required.
• Minimum 2 years of materials leadership experience.
• Minimum 2 years of experience leading teams, developing people or organizing tasks.

Responsibilities

• Oversee timely material flow and delivery from other locations and preparation for shipment.
• Lead and develop materials staff through education, training, coaching and certification to meet KPIs.
• Manage daily warehousing operations including staging, cycle count, and storage of materials.
• Oversee inventory management, accuracy, and established guidelines.

Skills

Relationship Building

Accountability

Ask Listen Follow Up

Inspire Motivate Recognize

Conflict Management

Identify Engage Retain

Change Agent

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

2 years of materials leadership

2 years of experience leading teams

Tools

SAP

RFID

Bar Coding

Job description

Essential Duties

• 20% Ensure timely material flow within the facility as well as timely delivery in receiving material from other
• 20% Ensure timely material flow within the facility as well as timely delivery in receiving material from other locations as well as preparation for shipment of parts to other facilities.
• 15% Develop and implement standard process and strategies that enable production efficiency improvements.
• 10% Lead, Supervise, and direct materials staff development through education, training, coaching, mentoring and certification in the execution of improvement priorities and the achievement of key performance indicators.
• 10% Manage and optimize daily warehousing operations including staging, cycle count, and storage of materials.

Other Duties As Assigned And The Following

• Oversee inventory management and control, accuracy, and established inventory guidelines and procedures.
• Ensure efficient and accurate materials presentation to support production operations.
• Partner with Quality, Purchasing and Production to develop effective and efficient solutions to customer quality and delivery issues and to achieve objectives and KPIs.
• Ensure high level of communication between planning, purchasing and production to ensure a high degree of 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 functional area as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

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

Owledge, Skills And Abilities

• Relationship Building and Earning Trust – Consistently follows through on team commitments, communicates, and demonstrates accountability. Builds trust and sets the example for the team by being inclusive and fair.
• Accountability – Remains outcome focused, holding the team accountable while removing barriers to success. Plays to win by defining team objectives/scope and clear milestones. Keeps leadership apprised of progress and brings options/solutions for issues when elevated.
• 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 as a group. Asks questions, remains unbiased and encourages unconventional suggestions. Diffuses conflict as it arises rather than avoiding it and focuses on solving the problem.
• Identify, Engage and Retain – Creates an open and honest work environment, providing others an opportunity to develop and grow.
• Change Agent – Consistently optimistic about the ability to change in order to improve a product/service. Uses the voice of customer (VOC) to validate ideas. Works well autonomously and in a team, leads change by promoting the value of transformation.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Relationship Building and Earning Trust – Consistently follows