About the role
At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.
Position Summary
The Materials Supervisor works in the warehouse and production facility to manage all aspects of the material flow, control, and accuracy over inventories. This includes daily receipt, stocking, inventorying, storing, pulling, packing, and processing of goods to both internal/external customers. The Materials Supervisor is also responsible for the initiation and maintenance of standard work and other departmental procedures to achieve inventory integrity while also improving the Materials Group's overall Quality, Cost, and Delivery objectives. The individual will interface with operations, engineering, warehouse/logistics, finance, and quality functions in the organization.
Shift Hours: 3:00 PM - 11:00 PM Monday - Friday
What You'll do as a Warehouse Supervisor
- Ensures timeliness and accuracy of inventory and inventory control activities to include cycle count program.
- Maintains, evaluates, recommends, and implements improvements in material requirements to drive down inventory levels.
- Assure accurate records of inventory movement and transactions are in place and effective to ensure data integrity.
- Work effectively with all functional teams inside and outside our organization to establish and maintain schedules and inventory levels to meet customer delivery needs.
- Provide leadership for the management of inventories and maintain total inventory dollar investments within established guidelines while improving the state of inventory investment while not affecting customer needs or negatively impacting costs, work to remove barriers to costs to manufacture.
- Participate in internal and external audits and follow-up with appropriate activities to mitigate future issues in areas shown to be at risk during the audit.
- Work effectively with all functional teams to develop and implement ECO’s according to our Quality System and documented policies and procedures.
- Responsible to work with others to develop improved ERP system capabilities.
- Responsible for interviewing, hiring, training, planning, assigning, directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; time and attendance; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
- Supports development and management of departmental budget to include capital requirements.
- Using Lean Tools; identify, participate, and implement continuous improvement activities to impact departments overall quality, cost, and delivery initiatives.
The Experience, Skills and Abilities Needed
Required:
- Associate’s degree in business, engineering, or materials management required with emphasis in supply chain management preferred.
- 4+ years’ experience with increasing responsibility in materials management in a manufacturing environment.
- 2+ years Lead and/or Supervisory experience in warehousing, domestic transportation, shipping/receiving or other operations/supply chain function.
- Requires a thorough understanding of manufacturing operations, ERP/MRP systems, engineering and finance and the systems to support and integrate these functions.
- Requires an understanding and experience in Operational Excellence through Continuous Improvement using lean thinking and tools.
- Requires a demonstrated ability to achieve best total cost of ownership-driven inventory strategies.
Preferred:
- Certification as CPIM or CIRM is desired.
Other:
- Strong ability to utilize a data warehouse to prepare internal reports along with ability to use Microsoft Excel to report data functionally from data downloaded from ERP system.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills along with the ability to interact with people at all levels of the organization both inside and outside the company.
- Must be able to summarize issues and present facts and when appropriate make recommendations to management as well as implement solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to follow up with tasks and issues along with demonstrated problem solving skills are essential.
- Lean training.
What STERIS Offers
We value our employees and are committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that supports your health, well-being, and financial future.
Here is just a brief overview of what we offer:
- Market Competitive Pay
- Extensive Paid Time Off and (9) added holidays
- Excellent Healthcare, Dental and Vision Benefits
- Long/Short
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