Position Purpose:

Responsible for the allocation of staffing resources to support planned production levels, while following policies and procedures. Manage shipping, cycle counting, packaging and plant material handling processes and supervise hourly/salary team members to achieve established inventory and productivity levels, safety requirements, and 5S initiatives.

Essential Functions:

Under the direction of the Materials Manager, assists with the following materials supervisor responsibilities:

• Provides supervision to hourly and salary employees on assigned shift.

• Track attendance, schedule vacations, ensures compliance to the employee handbook. Maintains personnel structure and staffing levels per budget to accomplish materials goals in an effective and efficient manner. Interviews and recommends applicants for hire within the department per recruiting process according to operational needs.
• Develops and monitors work schedules to ensure shipping, receiving, inventory control and material handling activities are covered without the need of overtime. Informs management of progress, priorities, and problems to ensure that issues are handled in a timely manner.
• Conduct daily shift meetings to keep employees aware of production levels, delivery performance, quality, safety, overtime, upcoming events, etc.)

• Supervise daily staffing and output levels to meet or exceed planned productivity levels.

• Motivate, provide clear direction, and set expectations for new and existing hourly and temporary personnel.
• Ensure that all hourly and temporary personnel have the training needed, the tools required and are held accountable to set expectations.
• Update and maintain training matrices, OJT’s, work instructions, training guides and packaging diagram.
• Administer the inventory cycle count program to attain 95% accuracy levels.
• monitors inventory control, shipping, receiving and material handling areas to ensure associates follow appropriate procedures to maintain accurate and timely handling/processing of materials and supplies.

• Supervise the material handling of parts to meet or exceed established production levels, with the goal of no downtime.
• Supports investigating and solving customer complaints and issues.
• Work in conjunction with the Production Supervisors and Continuous Improvement Coordinator to establish pick to order, and linked flow of material to support Lean Manufacturing processes.
• Lead 5s activities throughout the plant/warehouse on materials designated areas.
• Provide logistical support to plant manufacturing with emphasis on uninterrupted material availability.
• Utilizes knowledge of shipping, receiving, inventory control and mat handling practices to improve and develop procedures as needed. 
• Ensure employee safety by ensuring all safety devices are in use and the proper personal protective equipment (PPE) is always worn.

• Report all accidents / near misses to the operations manager and safety manager within 24 hours.  Participate in the completion of the accident investigation / report.
• Assist with implementing and sustaining corrective actions Ensure associates within the materials group attend all safety related training events.

• Acquire an understanding of manufacturing principals to drive ERP improvements.
• Ensures materials are stored properly to conserve space, 5s and comply with FIFO and Safety Procedures.
• Performs audits to forklifts to ensure they are in good condition and daily audit sheets are being completed.
• Inspects all material handling equipment for defects and notifies maintenance personnel and/or Material Manager, if necessary, contacts outside service provider for repair quotes.
• Support cross training initiatives of the department.
• Other duties as assigned.