Materials Manager (R6373)

About the role

Responsibilities

• Directly supervise receiving associates and incoming inspectors, including daily assignments, scheduling, training, coaching, and performance evaluations.
• Establish clear expectations for safety, quality, productivity, accuracy, and professional conduct.
• Balance staffing and workload across receiving and inspection to support production priorities.
• Develop cross-training plans and maintain training records to ensure personnel are qualified for assigned tasks.
• Address performance issues promptly and support hiring, onboarding, and employee development.
• Oversee receipt, identification, counting, and verification of purchased materials against purchase orders, packing slips, and required documentation.
• Ensure accurate and timely transactions in the ERP system, including part numbers, quantities, revisions, and lot or serial information where required.
• Resolve shortages, overages, shipping damage, incorrect parts, and documentation discrepancies with Procurement and suppliers.
• Maintain material identification, traceability, segregation, and handling controls throughout the receiving process.
• Coordinate movement of accepted material to inventory, kitting, or production.
• Execute incoming inspection activities according to approved inspection plans, drawings, specifications, purchase order requirements, and quality procedures.
• Ensure required supplier documentation is present and reviewed, including certificates of conformance, material certifications, test reports, and first article documentation when applicable.
• Verify inspectors use appropriate inspection methods and calibrated measurement equipment.
• Ensure suspected or confirmed nonconforming material is identified, documented, and quarantined pending authorized disposition.
• Partner with Supplier Quality and Engineering on inspection questions, supplier defects, containment, and material review activities.
• Ensure material is released only after required acceptance criteria and approvals are satisfied.
• Lead daily reviews of receiving and inspection queues, aging material, shortages, and production-critical receipts.
• Escalate quality concerns and material constraints with clear ownership and required resolution dates.
• Improve receiving-to-stock cycle time without compromising inspection requirements or traceability.
• Standardize work instructions, visual controls, and transaction practices.
• Support supplier corrective actions by providing accurate defect records and inspection evidence.
• Maintain an organized, safe, and audit-ready work area.
• Experience in receiving, incoming inspection, inventory control, or manufacturing quality.
• Prior experience directly supervising hourly or technical personnel, including coaching, work assignment, and performance management.
• Ability to interpret purchase orders, engineering drawings, specifications, and inspection instructions.
• Experience using ERP systems for receiving, inventory transactions, and material status tracking.
• Working knowledge of inspection tools such as calipers, micrometers, gauges, and other applicable measurement equipment.
• Strong attention to detail, problem-solving skills, and cross-functional communication.
• Ability to prioritize competing demands in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Experience in aerospace, defense, robotics, or other complex hardware manufacturing.
• Familiarity with AS9100/ISO 9001 quality environments and AS9102 first article documentation.
• Experience with electronic assemblies, machined parts, composites, or electromechanical hardware.
• Familiarity with ESD controls, foreign object debris prevention, shelf-life controls, and lot/serial traceability.
• Experience supporting nonconformance management, material review boards, and supplier corrective actions.