The Gill Corporation Hiring for Director of Supply Chain at El Monte, CA Full Time

Direct, coordinate, plan, and organize purchasing, planning, receiving, warehousing, control, and distribution of materials to satisfy production requirements as required to accomplish these goals.

• Understand, develop and implement strategic objectives, capacity status, constraints, needs for growth in support of corporate goals and providing organizational recommendations as required to accomplish these goals.
• Monitor and approve expenditures of company assets in terms of both raw materials and company funds.
• Ensure an effective and efficient scheduling process to maximize facility resources and inventory
• Manage and track inventories utilizing a material requirements planning (MRP) system and a just-in-time (JIT) operating philosophy.
• Negotiate with outside suppliers to ensure adequate product availability, fair pricing, and up-to-date marketplace information.
• Develop and maintain company/supplier partnerships based on mutual trust in order to enhance long term and cost-effective availability of materials.
• Ensure that all current material related systems are being utilized correctly, through routing, monitoring of feedback and accuracy verifications.
• Establish and implement new, or revisions to, existing procedures to increase and achieve materials management efficiency, asset control, and asset utilization.
• Eliminate waste of raw materials, utilities, manpower, and other company resources wherever possible.
• Continually assess, develop and staff the subordinate groups with the talent necessary to operate at a high level of accuracy and productivity.
• Participate in intra-company activities and committees as a representative of the materials department in support of The Gill Corporation’s goals and strategic objectives.
• Coordinate with R&D and Sales to provide new materials for new projects, and review additions and updates to current in-house databases.
• Supervise periodic physical inventories to update and compare perpetual computer records

• B.S. degree in Business or Technical
• APIC’s training is a strong plus.
• Fifteen (15) years materials experience in a manufacturing/process environment.
• Customer-service oriented
• Basic knowledge of material systems and contract rights and obligations related to purchasing.
• Understanding of contract related legal matters, basic technical understanding of materials.