Materials Supervisor

About Nautique Boat Company With over 100 years of excellence, Nautique Boat Company , a subsidiary of Correct Craft, is recognized globally for building the world’s finest ski and wake boats. Since 1925, we’ve led the marine industry through innovation, superior craftsmanship, and a dedication to quality. Beyond our boats, we’re driven by purpose. Through Nautique Cares , we contribute to causes both locally and around the globe improving that performance, people, and philanthropy go hand-in-hand. Job Description The Materials Supervisor reports to the Senior Materials/Supply Chain Manager. The Materials Supervisor oversees material planning, inventory control, supplier coordination, and the movement and storage of materials required to support manufacturing operations. This position ensures materials are available in the appropriate quantity and timeframe to meet production requirements while maintaining inventory accuracy, controlling material costs, minimizing shortages and excess inventory, and leading assigned Materials, Planning, Inventory, and Warehouse employees. The role works closely with Production, Purchasing, Engineering, Quality, Sales, and Finance to support production schedules and on-time customer delivery. This position embodies and champions the core values, standards, and guiding philosophies of Nautique Boat Company, ensuring their consistent application across all duties and organizational initiatives. Key Responsibilities Develops and maintains material plans based on production schedules, customer demand, forecasts, inventory requirements, and supplier lead times to ensure materials are available to support manufacturing operations. Monitors material requirements and proactively identifies and addresses shortages, delivery risks, capacity constraints, and scheduling conflicts before they affect production. Establishes and maintains appropriate inventory levels, safety stock, reorder points, and ERP/MRP planning parameters while minimizing excess, obsolete, and slow-moving inventory. Oversees inventory-control activities, including cycle counting, physical inventories, inventory transactions, discrepancy resolution, material traceability, and inventory-record accuracy. Coordinates with Purchasing and suppliers to monitor purchase orders, supplier commitments, lead times, delivery performance, shortages, and quality concerns and supports recovery and cost-reduction efforts as needed. Oversees the receiving, identification, storage, issuing, handling, and movement of materials to ensure timely and efficient support of production operations. Improves warehouse organization, space utilization, material flow, and material-handling practices while promoting accurate inventory transactions and proper traceability. Supervises assigned Materials, Planning, Inventory, and Warehouse employees by establishing priorities and performance expectations, providing training and development, evaluating performance, and addressing performance issues as appropriate. Develops cross-training and promotes accountability, teamwork, safety, continuous improvement, and department flexibility to ensure effective operational coverage. Analyzes material shortages, inventory variances, supplier performance, and production interruptions to identify root causes and implement corrective, preventive, and continuous improvement actions using Lean Manufacturing, 6S, Kanban, visual management, and other appropriate methods. Monitors and improves key materials performance measures, including inventory accuracy and turns, material shortages, supplier on-time delivery, excess and obsolete inventory, cycle-count accuracy, MRP accuracy, warehouse productivity, and production schedule adherence. Perform similar or related duties as assigned This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee. Management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove…

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