Materials Manager

You will supervise receiving associates and incoming inspectors, manage receiving and inspection workflows, ensure accurate ERP transactions and material traceability, resolve discrepancies, enforce acceptance requirements, and improve cycle time and standard work. You will coordinate with Procurement, Supplier Quality, Engineering, and production stakeholders on material issues.

Responsibilities

• Supervise receiving associates and incoming inspectors
• Manage assignments, schedules, training, coaching, and performance evaluations
• Balance staffing and workload across receiving and inspection
• Oversee receipt, identification, counting, verification, and ERP transactions for purchased materials
• Resolve shortages, overages, shipping damage, incorrect parts, and documentation discrepancies
• Maintain material identification, traceability, segregation, and handling controls
• Execute incoming inspections against approved requirements
• Ensure supplier documentation is reviewed and acceptance criteria are met
• Identify, document, and quarantine nonconforming material
• Lead daily reviews of receiving and inspection queues, aging material, shortages, and critical receipts
• Improve receiving-to-stock cycle time and standardize work practices
• Support supplier corrective actions with defect records and inspection evidence

Requirements

• Experience in receiving, incoming inspection, inventory control, or manufacturing quality
• Experience supervising hourly or technical personnel
• Ability to interpret purchase orders, engineering drawings, specifications, and inspection instructions
• Experience using ERP systems for receiving, inventory transactions, and material-status tracking
• Knowledge of inspection tools such as calipers, micrometers, and gauges
• Problem-solving and cross-functional communication skills
• Ability to prioritize work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment

Benefits

• Bonus
• Benefits
• Equity