Materials Manager

Our client is seeking a MATERIALS MANAGER to maintain materials flow and to maintain control and accuracy of inventories, including all transactions, procurement, planning, scheduling, cost, warehouse, receiving, and shipping to ensure that customer orders are fulfilled on time. Our client’s team values t ransparency, ownership, and innovation and with their growing, national organization - there are tremendous opportunities to progress your career.

Location: Newark, CA

How You’ll Do It

Your leadership, materials management and manufacturing experience in aerospace and defense types of manufacturing environments will be beneficial; but your aptitude and attitude will be your strength.

• Develop, implement and manage cross-functional, fully integrated planning process that incorporates make versus buy, capacity planning, scheduling, inventory and materials.
• Perform analysis of customer demand, sales forecasts and historical material usage to develop and execute build to order and build to forecast plans.
• Coordinate with cross-functional business teams to develop the best strategy for production planning to support customer demand.
• Establish and implement methods and best practices related to the systems and process that support inventory forecasting, purchasing, and material control.
• Prepare customer delivery reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information to proactively communicate potential late deliveries.
• Establish and supervise production scheduling activities by monitoring material inventories, tracking progress of production and reviewing factors that affect schedules.
• Develop and execute a sourcing strategy to meet the company’s business growth and sourcing requirements.
• Identify, develop and manage effective relationships with existing and potential suppliers of goods and services to meet the established cost, quality and delivery targets.
• Coordinate and work with quality, engineering, machining and assembly operations to ensure on-time delivery by establishing and monitoring schedule to proactively identify and address any issues.
• Responsible for accuracy of inventory counts by implementing and managing an inventory control system, capable of identifying discrepancies in inventory counts and taking corrective action to guard against inconsistencies in the future.
• Participate as a member of the operations team in making cross-functional operational decisions.
• Participate in MRB meetings to resolve quality issues working with both internal and external resources.

What We’re Looking For

• BS in technical field, preferably Engineering or Business with technical work experience
• 5+ years of manufacturing experience or related work
• The ability to organize and lead people as well as upskilling and mentoring others.
• Experience with ERP like Epicor
• Lean Manufacturing experience
• Proficiency in managing inventory, processes and timelines to increase production ROI.

Benefits: A diverse benefit package is offered through our client, with M/D/V and PTO.

About ITEOM: At ITEOM, actions speak louder than words. We work with our hiring partners to identify the best talent available for the job. We provide a unique and seamless recruiting experience to make sure candidates and clients alike find exactly what they are looking for. We are an equal opportunity employer; however, this role is not eligible for sponsorship at this time. Employees eligible for full time W2 employment are encouraged to apply.