Essential Duties/Responsibilities: Safety & Environmental - Follow and enforce all safety rules, regulations, procedures, and trainings
- Maintains 100% Safety engagement
- Ensure Environmental Compliance with proper housekeeping of raw material Silos
Raw Material Management & Principle Duties - Plant single point of contact for all raw materials located on-site
- Manages all day-to-day activities of personnel in Raw Material receiving
- Maintains accurate raw material inventories
- Execute raw material cycle counts as requested, and at regularly scheduled intervals
- Investigate and resolve raw material inventory issues
- Receive (GR) all materials delivered daily, including railcars in inventory and transloaded material
- Order Railcars in and out and communicate to raw material unloaders for upcoming deliveries
- Update railcar tracking log
- Works with a Toledo-based sourcing team to order all necessary raw materials
- Communicate inventory adjustments to sourcing team after posting
- Attend and report out in weekly status meeting with sourcing team
- Monitors inbound deliveries to ensure that all items delivered are received into SAP
- Communicates directly to operations about inventory levels and delivery delays
- Clears COGI errors daily to ensure proper product cost allocations
- Works with the controller to update operational BOMs when needed
- Manages Raw Material SMOI, returns and dispose of items in a timely manner
- Attends a daily DMS meeting to communicate raw material usages and issues
- Support staff in coordinating and resolving all raw materials receiving issues to ensure production continuity and minimize detention/demurrage expense
- Provide monthly demurrage accrual estimate
- Work with quality and production when raw material deliveries are damaged or bad product
- Support appropriate processes to record damaged product in SAP
- Takes a strategic approach to inventory management
- Responsible for ensuring Friday inventory levels are sufficient to get production through the weekend
- Understands that during extended downtime (1 week+) silos need to be at appropriate levels for start up
- Understands that inventory is managed with a just in time (JIT) philosophy
- Backup support for plant buyer and shipping supervisor
- All other requirements as assigned by Plant Controller
Desired Skills & Abilities
- Very high-level attention to detail
- Ability to work with third party vendors on behalf of Company's interest
- Desire to learn and an eagerness to develop
- Demonstrated ability to learn from failures
Qualifications: - Understanding and adherence to SOX requirements/basic accounting principles
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel and Word)
- Good communication skills, both verbal & written
- Knowledge of a WMS (Warehouse Management System), SAP proficiency is highly desirable
Job Type: Full-timeRequired education:
- Minimum: Associates Degree (emphasis in Inventory Management or Logistics a plus)
- Preferred: Bachelor's Degree
Required experience:
- Minimum: Manufacturing Experience
- Preferred: 3+ years' experience in Warehouse or Operations