Materials Manager in Doylestown

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Why Choose Dontech?

At Dontech, you’ll join a company with a 50+ year legacy of innovation, supporting high-end applications in the military, avionics, aerospace, and medical instrumentation markets. We’re a privately owned, family-run business with a supportive, growth-oriented culture and a strong team ethos. Our work involves solving complex, meaningful challenges - often serving as an extension of our customers’ engineering departments - to deliver high-reliability, innovative products. If you’re passionate about technology and driven by the mission “to innovate solutions for problems worth solving,” Dontech is the place to be.

We are seeking a hands-on Materials Manager to lead purchasing, inventory control, and warehouse execution in our custom manufacturing environment. This role is ideal for a relationship-oriented leader who can partner effectively with suppliers, use data to drive decisions, and improve ERP/MRP discipline while supporting production and growth. The strongest candidates will bring supplier management strength, manufacturing experience, and enough systems/reporting fluency to turn information into action. This role is on-site in Doylestown, PA.

Position Summary

The Materials Manager leads purchasing, inventory control, and warehouse execution in support of a custom, highly engineered manufacturing environment. This person partners closely with production planning, engineering, quality, manufacturing, and suppliers to ensure the right material is available at the right time, at the right quality, and at the right cost. The role combines supplier relationship management, cost discipline, ERP/MRP rigor, hands-on data fluency, and team leadership to improve service, reduce risk, and support profitable growth.

What Success Looks Like in This Role

• Builds strong vendor relationships while holding suppliers accountable to cost, quality, delivery, responsiveness, and continuous improvement.

• Uses clear metrics, benchmarking, and fact-based negotiation to manage performance and control cost increases.

• Understands the realities of custom bills of material, engineered products, schedule changes, and long-lead or constrained materials.

• Uses ERP/MRP, reporting tools, and advanced Excel skills to turn data into decisions and improve the system rather than work around it.

• Partners effectively with planning, manufacturing, engineering, quality, finance, and customer-facing teams to solve problems early and keep commitments.

• Leads with professionalism, urgency, and follow-through, while developing the purchasing and warehouse teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Purchasing and Warehouse teams to support production plans, customer commitments, and company objectives.

• Source, qualify, manage, and develop suppliers in line with company policies, quality expectations, and long-term business needs.

• Negotiate pricing, terms, lead times, and delivery commitments to improve total cost, reduce risk, and support schedule performance.

• Establish and manage inventory strategies that support production without tying up unnecessary working capital.

• Partner with the Production Planner to align quoted lead times and shipment schedules with raw material availability, internal yields, and actual capacity.

• Monitor supplier performance and drive corrective actions related to delivery, quality, responsiveness, and pricing.

• Lead warehouse execution so materials are properly received, identified, stored, issued, packaged, cycle counted, and transacted accurately and on time.

• Optimize ERP/MRP usage, item master integrity, material planning parameters, and reporting to improve visibility and decision-making.

• Create and improve reports, dashboards, pivots, and data analyses that help the business manage shortages, expediting, supplier performance, inventory, and cost trends.

• Support ERP/MRP upgrades, redesigns, integrations, or expanded functionality, and help drive user adoption and process discipline.

• Work closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, and Operations on new part introductions, engineering changes, requalification needs, and obsolescence risks.

• Identify, communicate, and mitigate supply chain and material risks, including single-source exposure, long-lead constraints, and continuity concerns.

• Promote continuous improvement, standardized work, and training within the materials function.

• Ensure compliance with quality system, ethical, and regulatory requirements, including applicable AS9100 & ISO-9001 expectations.

Key Metrics

Metric

Examples of Measurement

Service & delivery

Material availability to production plan; supplier on-time delivery; past-due purchase orders; expedite frequency.

Cost performance

Material cost vs. budget; purchase price variance; negotiated savings; benchmarking results.

Inventory health

Inventory accuracy; cycle count performance; inventory turns; excess and obsolete reduction.

Supplier quality

Supplier defect rates, responsiveness to corrective actions, and rework/return impact.

Process discipline

ERP/MRP data accuracy, parameter integrity, report usefulness, and timeliness of material transactions.

Required Experience and Qualifications

• 5 - 10+ years of experience in materials management, purchasing, supply chain, or a closely related leadership role.

• Strong experience in a manufacturing environment; experience in a custom, engineered, or make-to-order environment is strongly .

• Demonstrated success managing suppliers, negotiating effectively, and improving vendor performance through both partnership and accountability.

• Working knowledge of ERP/MRP systems, material planning logic, and the interaction between purchasing, inventory, scheduling, and production execution.

• Strong analytical and systems skills, including advanced Excel; experience with Crystal Reports or similar report-writing / business intelligence tools is highly desirable.

• Experience improving processes, reports, data structure, or system usage - not just executing transactions within an existing process.

• Ability to lead people, build trust across functions, and communicate clearly with both shop floor and leadership teams.

Citizenship requirements in compliance with ITAR (either US or Permanent ).

Qualifications

• APICS / CPIM / CSCP or similar professional certification.

• Experience supporting ERP implementation, expansion, conversion, or optimization projects.

• Background in lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, or formal problem-solving methods.

• Exposure to technical products with custom BOM structures, engineering changes, and regulated quality systems.

Cultural Alignment

• Acts with integrity, ownership, and follow-through; does what they say they will do.

• Builds productive, respectful relationships internally and externally.

• Balances urgency with judgment - moves quickly without creating avoidable mistakes.

• Is comfortable in a dynamic environment where priorities change and custom work creates complexity.

• Brings a practical, hands-on mindset and uses data to solve problems worth solving.

• Develops people, improves systems, and leaves the team stronger than they found it.

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Dontech’s Quality Management System is AS9100D and ISO-9001:2015 certified with TUV Rheinland of North America.

Join Dontech and be a driving force in an environment where innovation, quality, and customer satisfaction are more than just goals—they’re a way of life. If you’re ready to join a dynamic team, we want to hear from you.

To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter outlining your relevant experience and why you’re the perfect fit for Dontech’s mission.

Dontech's Benefits Package for Full-Time Regular employees (regular schedules of 30+ hours per week) includes:

• Medical (or opt-out), including Telemedicine and a Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) option
• Vision
• Prescription
• Dental
• Hospital / Accident / Critical Illness options
• 401(k)
• Profit Sharing
• Flexible spending accounts for health care or dependent care savings
• Life (Company paid as well as optional additional voluntary coverage)
• Short-term
• Long-term
• Legal Insurance option
• Theft Insurance option
• Training Opportunities
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off (prorated for regular schedules between 30 and 40 hours/week)
• Paid Holidays (prorated for regular schedules between 30 and 40 hours/week)

Dontech Inc. is located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, north of Philadelphia in Central Bucks County.

Dontech Inc.
700 Airport Blvd.
Doylestown, PA 18902
http://www.dontech.com/

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