Materials Operations - SC Manager - Military Veterans

What you’ll do:

PRIMARY FUNCTION:

Lead plant’s Materials Operations, building a strong team, providing leadership, and directing all efforts need for Receiving & Shipping processes, Inventory Control, Warehousing, Logistics, Production Planners, Outside Processing and Indirect Material Purchasing in alignment with Eaton policies, procedures and programs in support of our goals and objectives. Lead and/or support projects and/or initiatives based on business needs.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

Function & Metrics: Lead Materials Operations processes focused on improving Inventory Accuracy and Control, Production Schedule Attainment, Optimizing Logistics, Receiving & Shipping and improving Indirect Material management.
Establish plant’s Materials Operations strategy and drive actions to reach Functional Excellence measured by OpA MM and MMA (including Growth projects, New Systems and Tools). 
Ensure  inventory availability for manufacturing.
Drive actions to improve ERP Health Data, Systems and inventory control.
Work on Continuous Improvements actions to improve Material Operation processes

Production Planning: Short term production scheduling, printing MOs and prioritizing jobs at the shop floor, ensuring production schedule attainment, timely escalating production challenges and work on mitigation plans and providing delivery inventory to customers when needed.

Warehousing: Optimize warehousing processes, improve receiving and shipping processes. Ensure Inventory accuracy and ERP Data Health. Execute system transactions timely.
Indirect Material and Logistics: Leading logistics and Indirect Material functions at the plant, deploying Eaton Corporate strategy, compliance to SCM policies, managing cost reduction and lead time reduction projects. Manage freight cost vs sales, premium freights and warehousing cost.
PP: Plan, recommend, justify, and manage annual operating budgets and financial targets in accordance with known operational needs, strategies, and objectives.

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Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications: 
•    Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business or finance
•    Seven (7) years’ experience in a manufacturing purchasing or production control environment
 
Preferred Qualifications: 
•    Master’s degree in engineering, MBA, systems or finance
•    Previous Materials Management supervision and leadership experience
•    APICS / CPIM Certification
•    Systems: Kinaxis Rapid Response, MAPICS, AS400, MS Excel (Advanced), Kinaxis, Palantir
 

Skills:

Position Success Criteria: 
•    Broad knowledge of a business and manufacturing enterprise, as well as computerized inventory systems. 
•    General understanding of accounting principles, industrial engineering, and manufacturing processes. 
•    Extensive understanding of laws that affect company purchasing policies, procedures, and decisions. 
•    Broad understanding of corporate and division purchasing policies and procedures. 
•    Ability to develop material plans that support sales and inventory objectives simultaneously for a multi-product plant.