Horizon PLastics Hiring for Materials Manager at Cobourg, ON Full Time

Summary/Objective:
The Materials Manager is accountable for key metrics and management in the functional areas of purchasing, shipping & receiving, inventory and warehouse management and scheduling.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manages the overall materials function including; Scheduling, Purchasing, Shipping & Receiving, and Inventory management.
• Responsible for establishing and maintaining a robust, accurate cycle count program to ensure the responsible management of all inventory, including, but not limited to raw materials & finished goods that meets or exceeds KPI targets.
• Engage team members in receiving incoming raw materials and shipping outgoing finished goods while ensuring location accuracy, order completeness, documentation accuracy and specified condition of shipments.
• Work closely with production team to ensure KPI OTD targets are met or exceeded.
• Develop and manage an inventory budget that effectively utilizes working capital and inventory reserves to meet operations/customer demand
• Establishes an effective inventory control plan for the warehouse that keeps products turning in line with demand
• Ensure the completion of paperwork for internal tracking for both raw materials and finished goods, bills of lading, purchase receipts, invoices, unfilled orders and daily bulk nitrogen readings.
• Establish effective purchasing practices and strategies to maintain resin supplies and favorable purchased priced variance.
• Identify opportunities to achieve department metrics and drive customer satisfaction
• Oversee the manufacturing schedule to meet customers delivery requirements while balancing the manufacturing capacity resources available
• Supports the materials team in supporting sales, customer service and production requirements
• Ensures material handling equipment is inspected as required by legislation for defects and the appropriate action is taken while maintaining vehicle maintenance reports and checklists and ensures the warehouse is maintained to housekeeping standards
• Manages a team of shippers/receivers to ensure appropriate performance management, labour coverage, vacation planning time and attendance for payroll on a regular basis
• Lead, coach and develop teams to build a culture of engagement, collaboration, accountability
• Utilizes ERP
• Completes all other duties as assigned

Required Skills and Experience:

• 5 years management experience in materials or production in a manufacturing environment
• Excellent employee/customer/supplier relationship building skills
• Information gathering, critical thinking and problem analysis skills
• Strong execution, attention to detail and communication skills
• Experience with MRP and inventory management software
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office/ Work/ Excel

Essential Functions:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Supervisory Responsibility:
Buyers, Scheduler, Inventory Coordinator, Materials Supervisor

Work Environment:
This job operates in a production manufacturing environment however the individual works from an office environment.

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Additional pay:

• Bonus pay

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Dental care
• Employee assistance program
• Extended health care
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Paid time off
• RRSP match
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision care
• Wellness program

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Materials management: 5 years (required)