Materials Management Supervisor

## Description

GENERAL STATEMENT OF JOB

This is the second of two levels in the Materials Management series. Incumbents coordinate the receipt, storage, tracking and distribution of materials and supervise lower-level materials management employees. Responsibilities may include ordering supplies; reviewing and correcting material listings; planning and coordinating inventory counts; and prioritizing and coordinating inventory management tasks.

## Example of Duties

Essential Functions

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supervises staff to include prioritizing and assigning work; conducting performance evaluations; training staff; ensuring that employees follow policies and procedures; maintaining a healthy and safe working environment; and making hiring, termination, and disciplinary recommendations.
• Monitors inventory and orders supplies, as necessary.
• Inspects inventory for quantity counts and damage; reconciles materials to packing lists; contacts vendors and corrects orders and listings, as necessary.
• Prioritizes and sorts mail that comes in and sorts invoices per PO or sends it to procurement daily.
• Prepares and maintains a variety of operational records and reports; updates and maintains applicable databases.
• Performs other related work as required.

## Typical Qualifications

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Education and Experience

• Associates degree in Inventory Management or a related field.
• Two (2) years inventory control, warehouse, or materials management experience
• An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the jobs essential duties..

License and Certifications

• A valid drivers license.

## Supplemental Information

Minimum Qualifications And Standards Required

Knowledge Of

• Supervisory principles.
• Customer service principles.
• Materials management procedures.
• Computers and related software applications.
• Operational database management.
• Recordkeeping principles.
• Computers and related software applications.
• Inventory management principles.

Skill In

• Monitoring and evaluating employees.
• Prioritizing and assigning work.
• Using a computer and related software applications.
• Applying customer service principles.
• Maintaining records and reports.
• Using a computer and related software applications.
• Monitoring and maintaining inventory.
• Communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with subordinates, coworkers, supervisors, the public, etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to give and receive work direction.

Physical Requirements

Required

The work is light work which requires exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently to or constantly to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.

Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

Handling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.

Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination sound.

Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. It occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.

Mental Acuity: Making rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.

Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.

Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force to thrust forward, downward, or outward.

Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.

Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.

Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.

Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. It occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.

Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

Visual ability 1: sufficient to perform an activity like preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading