Materials Procurement & Inventory Operations Manager in Whitewater

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Job DescriptionJob DescriptionLead our materials flow from dock to stock — and from plan to shipment

As the Materials Procurement & Inventory Operations Manager, you orchestrate the entire lifecycle of materials: keeping perpetual inventory records accurate, timing purchases to demand, ensuring on-time receipts, and getting finished goods out the door. You’ll balance short-term production needs with long-range inventory objectives while mentoring the receiving, stores, traffic, and shipping teams.

A day in the role

Your morning starts by reviewing inventory record variances and order points, aligning on production schedules and forecasts. At the daily production meeting, you brief the team on purchasing status, inventory health, inbound/outbound shipments, receiving metrics, and traffic updates. Then you’re on the floor—coaching supervisors, inspecting storage conditions, and clearing roadblocks that impact flow.

Midday, you’re negotiating with suppliers on specifications, terms, and delivery dates, qualifying new sources, and maintaining our Supplier Guide. You share pricing trends with estimating so customer quotes stay sharp. In the afternoon, you reconcile supply to schedule, release purchase orders for materials and services to the best total value, and monitor departmental spend to stay within budget. Throughout the day, you reinforce safe, clean, and orderly practices—and jump in on other duties as needed.

What you’ll own

• Accountability for a rigorous system that tracks and maintains physical inventories for raw materials, finished components, purchased parts, and supplies.
• Leadership of receiving, stores, traffic, and shipping operations—including hiring, directing, scheduling, training, evaluating, and disciplining staff in line with company policies and procedures.
• Storage, inventory control, and distribution of in-process, finished, and purchased goods and materials.
• End-to-end purchasing of materials, supplies, and services to defined specs and quality at the most economical total cost.
• Supplier relationship management: sourcing and qualifying suppliers, obtaining competitive quotes, and negotiating specs, terms, and delivery.
• Creation and upkeep of a Supplier Guide.
• Advising estimating on market and pricing trends for key materials/components used in customer quotations.
• Customer interaction focused on shipment timing and order status.
• Participation in setting long-range purchasing and inventory objectives.
• Daily reporting on purchasing, inventory, shipping, receiving, and traffic topics.
• Expense control to meet budget requirements.
• Promotion of housekeeping and safety throughout the shop.
• Additional duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Associate’s degree (or equivalent from a two‑year college/technical school), or two years of relevant experience/training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience as determined by the Operations Manager. You can read and interpret manuals, procedures, and technical documents; perform arithmetic with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals; and you bring strong negotiation, analysis, organization, communication, and leadership skills. You’re a resourceful problem solver, comfortable making sound decisions when standardization is limited.

Below is an exact statement of the physical requirements for this position:

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The physical demands described here are representative of the essential functions of this position that must be met by an employee to successfully perform this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. This job requires that the employee occasionally bend, twist, reach and lift of up to 50 lbs. The employee must be able to hear and communicate verbally. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

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