Lead Materials Associate
Costa Mesa, CA - USA
Job Summary
ABOUT THE JOB
As a Lead Materials Associate you will join our Supply Chain team at the Costa Mesa CA office. The Supply Chain team has a valuable impact for Andurils business and mission responsible for supporting our production and business growth through the material management and inventory flow. The right person for this role can demonstrate strong ownership and ability to solve operational challenges with creative solutions in a fast-paced resource-limited environment. This person will be flexible to provide support wherever needed to ensure products are shipped and received under stringent quality standards to ensure
WHAT YOULL DO
- Ensure all associates are following safety procedures and standard work tasks. Proactively identify and drive safety improvement opportunities
- Sets priorities and directs daily operations to include timely issuing and completion of tasks clear blockers daily for the warehouse team to achieve their goals
- xOwn inventory accuracy for business unit identify risks and report daily
- Build a positive and collaborative team culture that promotes product knowledge skills development and X-training
- Work cross functionally to resolve issued related to KPIs and drive completion of continuous improvement activities
- Drive performance metrics and reporting to Supervisor and Manager
- Interface with business stakeholders to ensure business alignment
- Ensure visual management of the areas are upheld and represent the health of current operations
- Hold daily standups with team to drive key business initiatives
- Be a super user within WMS to identify and resolve key issues
- Show up every day with extreme urgency and enthusiasm to get the job done
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3 years experience with warehouse operations supporting manufacturing involving: receiving put-away picking cycle counting internal transfers deployments VRMA
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities
- Ability to be onsite local to Santa Ana CA or Costa Mesa CA
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Associates or Bachelors degree in supply chain manufacturing or related operations field
- Strong understanding of production rate critical path analysis and key warehouse fundamentals
- Strong understanding for receiving and deployment documentation for domestic and international shipments
- Ability to identify safety issues with warehouse vehicles to ensure safe operations
- Strong knowledge of AS9100 standards and OSHA laws
- Experience being hands-on and boots on the ground in the warehouse with proven skills in both process and equipment troubleshooting and ability to adapt to constantly changing warehouse environments
- Passion for employee development and enjoy the process of training and developing both new hires and veteran warehouse staff
- Strong understanding for receiving and deployment documentation for domestic and international shipments
- Strong understanding of production rate critical path analysis and key warehouse fundamentals
- Ability to identify safety issues with warehouse vehicles to ensure safe operations
- Experience supporting process development and implementing new processes
- Experience supporting equipment maintenance
- Knowledge of 5S lean manufacturing or 6-Sigma principles
- Proficient with computer use (standard browser word processing applications) and ability to present data
- Reliable organized and detail-oriented with excellent verbal & written communication skills
- Experience in ramping low volume operations to high rate
- Forklift certification
US Salary Range
$37 - $49 USD
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:
Benefits
At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.
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