Materials Manager

1. Scope of Position: Reporting to the General Manager, the Materials Manager provides leadership for materials planning, inventory control, warehousing, and material flow activities across MAMT's Composites, Fabrication, and Multimatic Woodbine Tool operations. The role is accountable for material availability, inventory accuracy, traceability, working capital management, and continuous improvement of supply chain processes in a high-mix, low-volume manufacturing environment. 2. Key Responsibilities Lead materials planning, stores teams across MAMT locations. Support customer program launches and engineering changes by ensuring material readiness, inventory strategies, and supplier capacity planning. Ensure material availability for production, prototypes, tooling projects, and customer schedules. Own SAP materials processes, including MRP, master data, BOMs, inventory transactions, and production supply. Develop and execute strategies to improve inventory turns, reduce excess and obsolete inventory, and optimize working capital while maintaining customer service levels. Manage storage, kitting, internal movement, outside processing, and inter-site transfers Maintain inventory accuracy through cycle counts, physical inventories, transaction controls, and corrective actions. Monitor capacity constraints, lead-time risk, shortages, premium freight, and inventory exposure; lead corrective and recovery actions with suppliers and internal stakeholders. Identify and mitigate supply chain risks related to supplier capacity, transportation disruptions, material shortages, business continuity, and geopolitical factors. Provide leadership, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and employee development for materials, and stores personnel. Establish performance objectives and ensure training and competency development plans are maintained for all direct reports. Improve inventory, warehouse layout, replenishment, packaging, and material flow using Lean and 5S principles. Coordinate transportation, customs documentation, and cross-border shipments. Support sourcing, engineering changes, supplier development, program launches, and production readiness. Report KPIs for material availability, inventory accuracy, supplier delivery, premium freight, inventory turns and working capital. Ensure compliance with health and safety, environmental, quality-system, customer, and company requirements. undefined Product-Line-Specific RequirementsComposites: Control prepreg, resins, adhesives, cores, inserts, and consumables using batch traceability, shelf-life, out-time, temperature, and first-expiry-first-out controls. Fabrication: Manage sheet, tube, plate, hardware, weldments, and outside processes with effective grade, heat or lot identification and WIP control. MWT: Support milestone-driven die and tooling projects, including steel, castings, standard components, outsourced machining, heat treatment, project BOMs, WIP, and finished-tool shipments. Integrated Operations: Coordinate intercompany tooling and component flows among Composites, Fabrication, and MWT. Key Performance Indicators On-Time Delivery Inventory Accuracy Inventory Turns Working Capital Premium Freight Cost Supplier On-Time Delivery Material Shortages Schedule Adherence Warehouse Safety Performance Physical Inventory Accuracy Customer Delivery Ratings 3. Key Relationships: General Manager, Controller and Department Managers Logistics team, Program Managers and Supervisors 4. Qualifications: Degree or diploma in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business, Engineering, or a related field. Minimum seven years of progressive materials, supply chain, logistics, or manufacturing operations experience, including leadership responsibility in a multi-site manufacturing environment Experience in high-mix, low-volume manufacturing; composites, fabrication, stamping, tool-and-die, or project manufacturing experience is preferred. Strong SAP MM/PP, MRP, inventory control, BOM…

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