Supervisor Material

Responsible to manage all aspects of the facility materials flow.
Responsible for maintaining control and accuracy over all goods inventories, including all transactions, scheduling, warehousing, receiving, and shipping to ensure that customer orders are fulfilled on time.
Will work with corporate supply chain and other TTX facilities to improve overall shop material availability and levels on hand.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: • Manage the local materials team, processes and materials flow.
• Implement and manage methods and best practices related to the systems and process that support inventory forecasting, purchasing, and material control.
• Establish and supervise production scheduling activities by monitoring material inventories, tracking progress of production and reviewing factors that affect schedules.
• Prepare delivery reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends and use information to proactively communicate and eliminate potential late deliveries.
• Identify, develop and manage effective relationships with existing and potential suppliers of goods and services to meet the established cost, quality and delivery targets.
• Establish, implement, and manage system to evaluate, monitor and report supplier scorecard performance.
• Adhere to established company policies, procedures, terms and conditions and legal matters that affect purchasing policies.
• Coordinate and work with quality, engineering, freight car repair operations to ensure 100% 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, in conjunction with Finance, an inventory control system, capable of identifying discrepancies in inventory counts and taking corrective action to guard against inconsistencies in the future.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Process Engineering and Quality to achieve cost reduction targets, inventory accuracy, and smooth process flow.
• Maintain a safe and healthy work environment by implementing, maintaining and aligning company policies that adhere to local, state and federal environmental, health and safety regulations.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS and ABILITIES: • Maintain and provide current understanding of industry best practices and technology trends.
• Identify tools, processes and metrics to optimize material inventories and accuracies.
• Lead by example and motivate people so as to create a challenging, empowering, and collaborative working environment.
• Good technical writing, documentation, and record keeping skills.
• Good analytical problem solving ability.
• Ability to contribute in a cross functional collaborative environment.
• Ability to leverage metrics and other tools to drive inventory performance.
REQUIREMENTS: • BS degree in business, materials management, other related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• At least 4-7 years progressive experience in management of materials and materials teams within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience in total quality, six sigma, or other similar environments.
• Working knowledge and understanding of ERP/MRP systems and their use in a manufacturing environment (SAP preferred).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.
• Ability to demonstrate solid written and oral communication skills.
• APICS certification a plus.
PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTS: The employee is frequently required to talk or hear, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and reach with hands and arms.
The employee is occasionally required to sit (remain stationary) and climb or balance.
The employee is regularly required to move about (walk and stand).
The employee must occasionally lift and/or transport up to 25 pounds.
Correctable vision required for close, distance, or depth perception vision capabilities, and ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).
Frequently required to work near moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals and/or risk of electric shock.
Occasionally exposed to outdoor weather conditions, work in high precarious places and where there is vibration.
Working environment can be loud and travel may be required