Work Model: This is a fully onsite role, with work performed at your designated Regal Rexnord office.
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Scope of Role
The Materials Manager is responsible for leading the materials planning, production planning, inventory management, and material flow functions for the Glendale plant. This role is a key member of the site leadership team and is accountable for ensuring production schedules, material availability, inventory levels, and capacity requirements are aligned to support customer demand and operational objectives.
The Materials Manager leads the development and execution of the site's production and material plans, translating customer demand and business requirements into executable schedules. This position partners closely with Operations, Customer Service, Purchasing, Quality, Engineering, and Finance to identify constraints, establish priorities, and drive actions necessary to support customer delivery and plant performance.
A key focus of this role is establishing disciplined planning processes, improving schedule attainment and material availability, optimizing inventory, and creating effective material flow throughout the Glendale operation. The Materials Manager also leads and develops the site's materials and planning team and drives continuous improvement through data, structured problem solving, and Lean principles.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the Glendale site's materials and planning functions, including production planning, material planning, scheduling, inventory management, and material-flow processes.
- Develop and maintain production plans and schedules that balance customer demand, manufacturing capacity, labor availability, and material availability.
- Lead the site's Sales and Operations Planning inputs and capacity-planning processes, providing clear visibility to demand, capacity, inventory, and material constraints.
- Establish effective production scheduling processes and work closely with Operations to drive schedule adherence and execution to plan.
- Own material planning and MRP processes, including planning parameters, lead times, safety stocks, order quantities, and other settings that influence material availability and inventory.
- Proactively identify material shortages, capacity constraints, schedule conflicts, and other risks that could affect production or customer delivery and coordinate cross-functional resolution.
- Establish and maintain visibility to key materials performance indicators, including schedule attainment, inventory levels, inventory accuracy, material availability, shortages, and planning performance.
- Lead inventory-management processes and initiatives to optimize working capital while maintaining appropriate material availability to support customer and production requirements.
- Lead cycle-counting and physical-inventory processes and drive corrective actions to improve inventory accuracy.
- Develop and execute actions to address excess, obsolete, and slow-moving inventory in partnership with appropriate cross-functional stakeholders.
- Improve material flow throughout the Glendale facility, including material replenishment, point-of-use availability, WIP management, and movement of materials through the production process.
- Partner with Purchasing on material availability and supplier-related constraints while maintaining clear functional ownership between site materials planning and purchasing activities.
- Partner with Customer Service and Operations to evaluate changes in customer demand, establish appropriate production priorities, and communicate risks to customer requirements.
- Support monthly forecasting and business-planning processes by providing visibility to production requirements, capacity, inventory, and material constraints.
- Lead, coach, and develop the site's materials and planning team, establishing clear responsibilities, performance expectations, standard work, and development objectives.
- Use data, structured problem solving, Lean principles, and an 80/20 approach to identify priorities and drive sustainable improvements in materials performance.
- Standardize and continuously improve planning, scheduling, inventory, and material-management processes for the Glendale facility.
- Other duties as assigned.
Professional Experience / Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Operations, Engineering, or a related field.
- 3–5+ years of progressive experience in materials management, production planning, supply planning, scheduling, inventory management, or related supply-chain functions within a manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrated experience with production planning, MRP, inventory management, capacity planning, and material-flow processes.
- Experience leading and developing employees in a manufacturing, materials, or supply-chain environment.
- Strong understanding of the relationship between customer demand, capacity, production schedules, material requirements, and inventory.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve material shortages, scheduling conflicts, inventory issues, and capacity constraints.
- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills with the ability to translate data into priorities and actions.
- Strong cross-functional leadership, communication, and influencing skills.
- Experience with ERP systems; SAP experience preferred.
- Strong Microsoft Excel and data-analysis skills.
- Lean, Six Sigma, or other continuous-improvement experience preferred.
Benefits- Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage
- Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)
- Paid Time Off and Holidays
- 401k Retirement Plan with Matching Employer Contributions
- Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
- Paid Leaves
- Tuition Assistance
