Materials Manager

Materials Manager Needed - Richmond, Virginia

We are a leading manufacturing company in the Richmond, Virginia area seeking a Materials Manager. This full‑time, permanent, direct‑hire position offers competitive compensation, bonus potential, good benefits, paid holidays, and paid vacation.

Reporting to the Material Flow & Inventory Manager, the Materials Manager is responsible for managing the control, accuracy, storage and replenishment of materials within the production facility and external stocking locations. The role develops and implements visual management systems throughout supermarket, receiving, and cell locations, uses data to compile and analyze information used in developing the plan for every part (PFEP), and audits, analyzes, and reports on adherence, constraints and issues that may impact the success of implementation with forward‑thinking solution‑based problem solving.

Reporting to this role will be between 25 and 50 associates and 2 supervisors.

• Leads Materials and Receiving Teams in Plant.
• Develops, implements, and maintains optimum material flow technologies.
• Creates visual representations of material flow and designs optimum PFEP to create optimal flow through the three facilities.
• Tracks inventory trends and reports to management on root‑cause analysis and problem‑solving strategies. A primary objective is to ensure effective systems are in place to maximize material flow and minimize expenses to the company.
• Acts as a bridge between purchasing, scheduling, and production planning to ensure material is available in the right production sequence.
• Partners with departments to mitigate shortages.
• Partners with engineering to identify alternate materials if delivery would delay production or lead to an increase in excess inventory.
• Manages vendor relationships ensuring supplier‑managed inventory systems are operating properly.
• Utilizes ERP system to provide data on demand history and usage for use in the parts plan.
• Calculates and maintains optimal inventory levels to support safety stock needed to absorb demand variation while supporting inventory turns objectives.
• Helps create SOPs and standard work.
• Trains, coaches and mentors the entire team on the process, SOPs, audit results, etc.

• Minimum 8 years’ experience working in materials / materials management.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience working with LEAN material control systems.
• Associate or Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or supply chain management is preferred.
• Experience leading a team.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with employees at all levels of an organization.
• Customer‑oriented mindset; ability to make and maintain good relationships with vendors.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities in a fast‑paced environment.
• APICS or ISM certification preferred.

If you are a high performer and would like to work for an equally high performing company and you think the above opportunity is appropriate for you, we invite you to submit your resume in Microsoft Word format to: