Materials Supervisor

Position Summary

The Materials Supervisor works in the warehouse and production facility to manage all aspects of material flow, Kanban control, and accuracy over inventories. This includes daily receipt, stocking, inventorying, storing, pulling, packing, 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 overall Quality, Cost, and Delivery objectives. This is accomplished using Lean Tools to identify problems, recommend solutions and drive implementation using continuous improvement activities.

This role requires onsite work 5 days per week at our 6100 Mentor, OH facility. Working Hours for this role are Monday - Thursday 7:00am - 4:30pm, and Friday 7:00am - 11:00am.

What You'll do as a Materials Supervisor

• Using Lean Tools; identify, participate, and implement continues improvement activities to impact departments overall quality, cost, and delivery initiatives.
• Develops and maintains standard work documentation and other AMI procedures to ensure compliance.
• Perform 5S, Standard Work, Stand-in-Circle, and Inventory audits to identify opportunities of improvement.
• Perform extensive root cause analysis using our 8 Step Problem Solving Tools and implement corrective action measures.
• Responsible for interviewing, hiring, training, planning, assigning, directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and discipline employees; time and attendance; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Responsible for creating, measuring, analyzing, and disseminating data to support SQCD measurements.
• Participates and facilitate the implementation of Safety and Ergonomic improvements.
• Participate and facilitate the implementation Idea Generation System.
• Develop and manage departmental budget requirements to include capital requisitions.
• Maintain, evaluate, recommend, and implement improvements in material requirements to drive down inventory levels. Ensure timeliness and accuracy of inventory and inventory control activities to include cycle count program. The above statements reflect the general details of the job and shall not be considered as a detailed description of all duties inherent in the job.

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The Experience, Skills, and Abilities Needed

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, or related field. 
• Minimum of four (4) years of experience in warehousing.
  • OR High School Diploma PLUS twelve (12) years of experience in warehousing.
• Minimum of two (2) years of Supervisory experience. 

Preferred

• Direct hands-on experience in an MRP systems environment, preferred. 
• Prior Materials Management experience, preferred. 
• Ability to read and comprehend instructions, preferred. 
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence, preferred. 

Other

• Proficient computer skills to include Microsoft Office applications such as Excel and Word.
• Key competencies include sound business judgment, decision making, and negotiating skills.
• Displays willingness to make decisions; exhibits sound and accurate judgment; includes appropriate people in decision-making process; makes timely decisions.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Exhibits objectivity and openness to others’ views; gives and welcomes feedback; contributes to building a positive team environment; establishes and maintains constructive working relationships; puts success of team above own interests; able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives; supports everyone’s efforts to succeed.
• Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; looks for ways to improve and promote quality.

What STERIS Offers

We value our employees and are committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that support your health, well-being, and financial future. 

Here is just a brief overview of what we offer:

• Market Competitive Pay.
• Extensive Paid Time Off (PTO) and 9 added Holidays.
• Excellent Healthcare, Dental and vision benefits.
• Long/Short Term Disability coverage.
• 401(k) with a company match.
• Maternity & Paternity Leave.
• Additional add-on benefits/discounts for programs such as Pet Insurance.
• Tuition Reimbursement and continued educations programs.
• Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career.

STERIS does not accept unsolicited resumes/CV's from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings.