Raw Material Specialist

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

Safety & Environmental

• Follow and enforce all safety rules, regulations, procedures, and trainings
• Maintains 100% Safety engagement
• Ensure Environmental Compliance with proper housekeeping of raw material Silos

Raw Material Management & Principle Duties

• Plant single point of contact for all raw materials located on-site
• Manages all day-to-day activities of personnel in Raw Material receiving
• Maintains accurate raw material inventories
  • Execute raw material cycle counts as requested, and at regularly scheduled intervals
  • Investigate and resolve raw material inventory issues
• Receive (GR) all materials delivered daily, including railcars in inventory and transloaded material
• Order Railcars in and out and communicate to raw material unloaders for upcoming deliveries
  • Update railcar tracking log
• Works with a Toledo-based sourcing team to order all necessary raw materials
  • Communicate inventory adjustments to sourcing team after posting
  • Attend and report out in weekly status meeting with sourcing team
• Monitors inbound deliveries to ensure that all items delivered are received into SAP
• Communicates directly to operations about inventory levels and delivery delays
• Clears COGI errors daily to ensure proper product cost allocations
• Works with the controller to update operational BOMs when needed
• Manages Raw Material SMOI, returns and dispose of items in a timely manner
• Attends a daily DMS meeting to communicate raw material usages and issues
• Support staff in coordinating and resolving all raw materials receiving issues to ensure production continuity and minimize detention/demurrage expense
  • Provide monthly demurrage accrual estimate
• Work with quality and production when raw material deliveries are damaged or bad product
  • Support appropriate processes to record damaged product in SAP
• Takes a strategic approach to inventory management
  • Responsible for ensuring Friday inventory levels are sufficient to get production through the weekend
  • Understands that during extended downtime (1 week+) silos need to be at appropriate levels for start up
  • Understands that inventory is managed with a just in time (JIT) philosophy
• Backup support for plant buyer and shipping supervisor
• All other requirements as assigned by Plant Controller

Desired Skills & Abilities

• Very high-level attention to detail
• Ability to work with third party vendors on behalf of Company’s interest
• Desire to learn and an eagerness to develop
• Demonstrated ability to learn from failures

Qualifications:

• Understanding and adherence to SOX requirements/basic accounting principles
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel and Word)
• Good communication skills, both verbal & written
• Knowledge of a WMS (Warehouse Management System), SAP proficiency is highly desirable

Job Type: Full-time

Required education:

• Minimum: Associates Degree (emphasis in Inventory Management or Logistics a plus)
• Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree

Required experience:

• Minimum: Manufacturing Experience
• Preferred: 3+ years’ experience in Warehouse or Operations