GCC - Materials Manager
Employee Owned Holdings, Inc., United States

GCC is looking for candidates who want to take the next step in their career to join our 100% employee owned company. GCC has offices in Tampa, Miami, Spokane, Seattle, and Portland - providing motion control solutions for hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrically powered applications. Our team is growing, and we are proud to be a 100% employee owned company - every employee has skin in the game.

The Materials Manager’s job is to make product available for sale to customers (including production for customers) by achieving an optimum balance between the cost to own, the cost to carry and meeting customer delivery requirements.

Responsibilities Include:

P21

• System-settings for entering new items, purchasing and inventory control functions.
• Entry and set up of new items requested by Customer Service or Product Management.
• Maintenance of P21 data to facilitate purchasing and inventory management and to help all users have the data they need in the most accessible form.
• Identify and tag items whose usage is dominated by a single user.
• Manage a cycle count program that provides the Company and its auditors’ assurance that the value of inventory calculated by P21 is reliable.
• Implement and maintain an expediting program:
• To maximize on-time delivery to customers consistent with established purchasing policy, and
• To notify customer service of deliveries that will apparently impact promised dates.
• Produce ad hoc inventory reports when requested or when needed to achieve these Duties and Responsibilities.

Purchasing:

• Purchase inventory, calculated to minimize total acquisition costs based on historical usage and inprocess items (including approved blanket orders), manipulating order quantities, lead times, special pricing (et. al.) to accomplish this goal.
• Notify Customer Service when inventory purchases do not support promised dates to customers.
• Assist Accounts Payable with supplier invoice issues.
• Interact with Sales and Warehouse on immediate or emergency needs for material and non-standard items.

Inventory Management

• Make maximum usage of supplier’s return programs.
• Review requests for customer’s return-to-stock and approve or reject.
• Review slow moving items and make recommendations for liquidation.
• Assist warehouse with troubled receipts (no PO, damaged product, etc.).
• Coordinate inventory audit with independent auditor and GCC Warehouse, Accounting and auditing. Plan the activity and on-going inventory management, to achieve the most favorable audit results.
• Negotiate claims and settlements with transportation suppliers.
• Review request for blanket orders (sales orders) and make recommendations on approval and implementation management.
• Set inventory goals based on Cost of Sales and meet the agreed upon goals consistently.

Quality

• Prepare and process MRRs for defective items discovered before delivery to a customer.
• Assist with supplier recall notices to identify defective items On Hand.
• Coordinate supplier evaluation and re-evaluation program.
• Support and participate in the organization’s continual improvement program, to conform to ISO 9001 requirements and understand the implications of not conforming with the Quality Management System.

• Ensure processes are delivering their intended outputs.
• Ensure the promotion of customer focus throughout the organization.
• Demonstrate leadership and commitment with respect to the quality management system by:
• Taking accountability for the effectiveness of the quality management system;

1. Ensuring that the quality policy and quality objectives are established for the quality management system and are compatible with the context and strategic direction of the organization;
2. Ensuring the integration of the quality management system requirements into the organization’s business processes;
3. Promoting the use of the process approach and risk-based thinking;
4. Ensuring that the resources needed for the quality management system are available;
5. Communicating the importance of effective quality management and of conforming to the quality management system requirements;
6. Ensuring that the quality management system achieves its intended results;
7. Engaging, directing and supporting persons to contribute to the effectiveness of the quality management system;
8. Promoting improvement;
9. Supporting other relevant management roles to demonstrate their leadership as it applies to their areas of responsibility.

Personnel Management

Job Rewards and Benefits