Position Summary:
The Materials Lead operates industrial trucks or related equipment to move products, materials or equipment, meeting or exceeding customer specs and productivity requirements. They are highly motivated and have a desire to work in a fast paced, quality centered environment. This role is vital to ensuring our customers’ needs are consistently met, promoting our company’s continued strong national growth.
Supervisory Responsibilities: None
Internal Relationships: All Departments
External Relationships: Occasional and incidental contact with customers or prospective customers
Traits Displayed:
- Ability to exude high energy, solution-based thinking, while focusing great attention to detail and maintaining a service-oriented disposition.
- Contribute to a work environment that promotes pride in being part of a winning team and encourages personal and professional growth and success.
- Assure productivity and high-quality standards are constant so that the company and employees collectively enjoy optimum financial returns, job security, personal career growth and excellent service to customers.
- Ability to provide exemplary and consistent customer satisfaction, with a strong capacity for building relationships.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the receiving, movement, and storing of product
- Manage inventory locations of raw, component and WIP
- Drive inventory transaction accuracy
- Transactions to and from bin locations (Goal is 95% accuracy)
- Jobs are kitted/checked in correctly
- Ensures weld kitting efforts meet full kit targets daily
- Goal is 2 days in front of welding (Per resource)
- Cycle count activities (Counting)
- Involved with counting manufactured/purchased components (Goal is 95% accuracy)
- End of year inventory
- Communicate with manufacturing personnel, the purchasing department, and other Supervisors on material status (shortages, discrepancies, roadblocks)
- Participate in 8D and other root cause and corrective analysis for inventory errors.
- Help lead kaizen events such as 6s and other continuous improvements.
- Filing out 6s daily checklist (keeps area orderly)
- Be involved/lead a 6s event initiatives.
- Develop and implement standard practices to improve inventory control and material movement.
- This accomplishes an accurate inventory to meet production needs and in return a more efficient and effective kitting process.
- Other duties as assigned.