Job Title: Senior Associate Material Management
Job Code: 21080
Job Location: Huntsville AL
Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days totaling 80 hours worked and have every other Friday off
Job Description:
Plans schedules and monitors the efficient movement of material from receiving or the warehouse to production. Develops raw material requirements and scheduling requirements from engineering specifications and production schedules and coordinates material movement with purchasing warehouse and production. Utilizes Material Requirements Planning (MRP) systems. May negotiate lead times with suppliers and manage schedules for timely delivery. May interpret laws rules and regulations regarding shipping and prepares applications for export/import control certifications and licenses.
Essential Functions:
- Ability to execute under moderate supervision. Works independently on larger moderately complex projects or assignments. Sets objectives for own job area to meet the goals of projects and assignments. May provide guidance and assistance to entry level professionals and/or support level employees.
- Communicates with contacts within and outside of own team which may include customers or vendors. Explains and interprets operational processes practices and procedures of the job area to others within the organization
- Role consists of making basic adjustments to systems and processes to solve problems. Identifies defines and addresses general problems that are typically within the immediate job area. Problems are typically solved through drawing from prior experiences or standard procedures and basic analysis.
- Works to achieve operational targets within job area with some impact on department results. Contributes to the completion of milestones associated with specific projects.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree and a minimum of 2years of prior related supply chain experience
- Graduate Degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of prior related supply chain experience
- In lieu of a degree minimum of 6years of prior related supply chain experience
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Knowledge of supply chain management lean manufacturing assembly and ATP processes required.
- Ability to use technical knowledge and experience to evaluate plans processes and results of the supporting team.
- Excellent communication skills selfmotivation strong leadership skills and interpreting program management engineering and supplier demands in a continuously changing environment with minimal guidance.
- Solid working knowledge of project management methods within the defense acquisition environment including program planning integrated master scheduling budgeting and earned value management.
- Ability to implement product design and development stage gate process (reviews for design build and test).
- Must have working capability in the use of typical office computer programs for conduct of program management such as MS PowerPoint (presentations logic diagrams) MS Project (basic scheduling) MS Excel (entering formulas graphing developing spreadsheets) and MS Word (tables program plans).
Required Experience:
Senior IC