Manufacturing Inventory Supervisor (f/m/d)

Responsibilitiesarrow_right * Safety Compliance: Enforce safety regulations, conduct inspections, and ensure proper use of equipment.

This person must drive our safety culture.

* Inventory Control: Maintain the integrity of inventory materials and product by managing stock levels, conducting inventory checks, ensuring accurate record-keeping, and analyzing disruptions in inventory flow via root cause analysis.

This includes utilizing an ERP system (SAP). * Team Management: Lead and direct team of ~10 direct reports, ensuring daily goals and objectives within inventory control, shipping and receiving operations are met, while supporting plant operations.

This includes supervising performance and behavior, training, motivating, and developing staff.

* Process Improvement: Identify and implement strategies to optimize warehouse procedures and reduce costs, utilizing LEAN systems and tools.

* Operational Efficiency: Coordinate receiving, storing, and shipping processes to meet deadlines and maintain workflow.

Communicate plans/goals/expectations and execute in accordance with standard operating procedures.

Monitor productivity and compliance to SOP.

Evaluate/analyze, communicate progress, and take necessary action to improve/sustain productivity.

* KPIs: Measure and interpret KPIs on a daily basis - tracking, reporting, and communicating with management.

* WMS: Maintain and manage Warehouse Management System to ensure accuracies of inventory including: cycle counts, product profiling and placement, root cause analysis, and inventory reconciliation.

Qualificationsarrow_right * Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

* Available to work M-F sometime between 8:00 AM and 6:00 PM (to ensure some overlap with 2nd Shift), plus occasional Saturdays.

* Minimum 3 years of experience in a manufacturing warehouse leadership role that includes inventory control.

Note - we are looking for someone with a background in inventory as it relates to manufacturing, not a distribution center.

* Strong leadership skills, having supervised larger teams including leads/salaried staff.

* Must have experience with warehouse management computer systems (SAP preferred), and intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

* Strong communication skills.

Must be able to read, write, and speak English; bilingual (Spanish) a plus.

* Background in Lean Management Systems.

* Demonstrated problem solver; ability to set priorities and work and think independently with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.