Materials & Logistics Manager

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Job Description

A Materials & Logistics Manager oversees all incoming and outgoing goods, managing warehouse staff, inventory accuracy, and logistics documentation (bills of lading, invoices) to ensure efficient operations. They are responsible for enforcing safety protocols, coordinating with carriers, inspecting shipments for damage, optimizing storage, and driving change through continuous improvement events.

Reports to Plant Manager / VP of Operations

Responsibilities & Duties

  • Operations Management: Oversee daily shipping and receiving, ensuring accurate, timely, and secure processing of products

  • Inventory & Documentation: Own and maintain inventory accuracy within ERP system, including cycle counts, adjustments, and discrepancy resolution

  • Supporting Production: Coordinate material staging and kitting to ensure production schedules are met without delays

  • Continuous Improvement/Lean Ownership: Lead CI initiatives to improve warehouse efficiency, reduce waste, and optimize material flow

  • Cross-Department Communication: Act as the primary liaison between warehouse, production, purchasing, and quality to ensure material availability and issue resolution

  • Team Leadership: Hire, train, schedule, and supervise warehouse personnel

  • Safety & Compliance: Ensure compliance with safety, security, and quality standards (e.g., 5S, OSHA, ISO)

  • Logistics Coordination: Arrange carrier schedules and resolve issues with shipments (damages, delays)

Skills/Training/Qualifications Required

  • Experience: 3-5+ years in warehouse operations, logistics, or supply chain management

  • Technical Skills: Proficiency in Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) or ERP software

  • Leadership: Strong organizational, communication, and team management skills

Physical Requirements

  • Ability to work in a warehouse environment, including operating forklifts or pallet jacks if necessary

  • Ability to lift and move heavy objects up to 50 lbs.

  • Ability to stand/sit for long periods of time, wear required protective clothing and equipment

  • Frequent overtime required

  • Ability to respond to emergency work when required

Performance Measures

  • Periodic internal audits indicate functions are conducted and records completed in accordance with established policies

  • Conforming and non-conforming material is stored in proper locations and handled in accordance with established polices

  • Craftsmen receive correct material in a timely manner

  • Government and customer material audits produce positive results

  • Be committed to the position and company

  • Be willing to work in a professional and positive manner

  • Support, participate, and drive the 5S initiative

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All descriptions have been reviewed to ensure that only essential functions and basic duties have been included. Peripheral tasks, only incidentally related to each position, have been excluded. Requirements, skills, and abilities included have been determined to be the minimal standards required to successfully perform the positions. In no instance, however, should the duties, responsibilities, and requirements delineated be interpreted as all-inclusive. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate.

We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is possible that requirements may be modified to reasonably accommodate disabled individuals. However, no accommodations will be made which may pose serious health or safety risks to the employee or others or which impose undue hardships on the organization.

Job descriptions are not intended as and do not create employment contracts. The organization maintains its status as an at-will employer. Employees can be terminated for any reason not prohibited by law.

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