Local Production Company / Material Planning & Logistics Manager
Pay: Depending on Experience
Hours: Monday - Friday 7-5
Main Tasks
- Lead the location specific logistics, materials, and production planning initiatives.
- Assure adherence of safety specifications and processes in the logistics areas that use powered industrial trucks and manual material handing equipment.
- Oversight of Logistics/TMS support- carrier related concerns.
- Lead and support of material handling improvements
- Use Lean manufacturing methodologies in the value chain to drive continuous improvement.
- Work with Sales, Inventory, Operations, Planning lead to drive inventory reduction projects.
- Ensure level loading of the production planning processes for inventory optimization
- Support development and maintenance of PFEP, replenishment, and flow of material strategies into standardized processes.
- Measure and own Logistic Key Performance Indicators such as inventory turns, material variance, on-time delivery (fill rate).
- Study and standardize procedures to improve efficiency of workers.
- Interview and hire new employees.
- Partner with Manufacturing to ensure coordination of other functions such as production planning, raw and finished goods inventory management,
- Leads the communication collaboratively within the site support functions and sales team.
- Conduct annual performance reviews and provide continual feedback on both positive and constructive performance.
- Ensure teams have processes in place to control non-conformance materials to initiate corrective actions, ensure that the commodities are inspected for conformity with other specifications and checked for defects
- Ensure that all activities regarding the transport logistics and/or production logistics and/or logistics planning are performed in time and budget.
- Ensure that the project stages are adequately managed and deadlines are met, ensure that the customer and supplier conditions and requirements are considered
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Education:
- Bachelor’s degree Required.
Experience:
- 5 years of experience in a logistics capacity or similar with 3 years supervisory experience
- Manufacturing/industry Distribution experience required.
- Lean Manufacturing experience desired.
- Experience or knowledge of raw materials planning/production scheduling process.
- Working knowledge of ERP systems, SAP, SAGE, etc
Skills:
- Strong communication skills at all levels of the organization.
- Customer and supplier orientation, organization and coordination skills
- Self-initiative and ability to work under pressure
- Interpersonal skills and problem solving skills necessary to work in a cooperative, positive team approach.
- Ability to lead, train and mentor employees on a personal & professional level
