Materials Specialist II

Greenheck Group is looking to hire a Materials Specialist II. In this role, you'll coordinate with manufacturing personnel to identify and resolve material issues to ensure on-time delivery and schedule attainment to customers. You'll identify process improvement opportunities, collaborate with others to streamline current nonvalue added processes, and assist in monitoring total plant inventory levels and engineering change notices.
** What you'll be doing:
*** Act based on excess project/sales order stock and excess/obsolete inventory result. Assist in monitoring total plant inventory levels.
* Support new and existing product development to the shop floor. This includes defining process flow and creating or updating routings, replenishment policies, capacity planning and standard operating procedures.
* Coordinate with plant scheduling, purchasing, and production supervision to identify and resolve key material issues preventing customer on time delivery and schedule attainment.
* Determine what paperwork should be produced and when. Identify improvement opportunities within this process. Collaborate with IT personnel and company systems to streamline current non value added shop floor processes.
* Ensure the availability to manufacturing areas of parts and raw materials to ensure production delays do not occur, through organized stocking, labeling, and proper inventory relief of purchased and manufactured parts.
* Research and proactively resolve differences.
* Assist in leading engineering change notices & item activity notices between all constituents (planners, product engineers, bill of materials, buyers, and business units) to ensure smooth, efficient, and timely model and component changeovers in support of business unit objectives while minimizing scrap and obsolete inventory.
* Determine optimum locations for inventory and oversee the physical storage activities while maintaining company safety and housekeeping standards.
* Assist in coordination and execution of year-end close cutoffs and inventory counts.
* Assist with personnel to optimize labor costs, enforce safety practices and procedures, and proper employee development.
* May develop, maintain, and distribute various inventory level reports.
* Review and adjust safety stocks accordingly while collaborating with purchasing and manufacturing engineers.
* May supervise hourly inventory control team members.
* Maintain and provide all training required for shop floor and supervisory personnel who have direct accountability for inventory accuracy in their facilities.
* Coordinate and execute cycle counting activities. Identify, document, and implement changes that need to be made to existing processes and procedures.
* Plan, lead, and implement inventory reduction projects.
* Resolve quality issues involving materials and work to determine root cause analysis.
* Identify and work with other departments to set up inventory related master data of new parts.
* Establish stocking requirements with material specialists at other campus facilities as well as purchasing team.
* Monitor and ensure accuracy and timely receipts of inventory manufactured and purchased parts executed by hourly inventory control team members.
** What you should have:
*** 4-6 years of relevant work experience in materials/inventory management required.
* 2 Year / Associate Degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Business Administration, or a related field of study or equivalent years of job experience required.
* 4 Year / Bachelor Degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Business Administration, or a related field of study preferred.
** PREFERRED SKILLS/CERTIFICATIONS
** APICS Certification
** What we think you should know:
*** You will have to opportunity to help build a plant from the ground up.
* You'll have high visibility during the startup with opportunities for growth as the site matures.
* You'll play a critical part in helping to shape culture, processes, and standards from day one.
** Travel:
** Some travel is expected during the initial training and pre-launch phase. After the plant launch, travel will be minimal, consistent with a typical Material Specialist…