Lead Materials Day Shift

Lead Materials Day Shift

The Materials Lead supports the daily operations of the Materials department by coordinating workflow and providing front-line leadership for material handlers and inventory personnel. This hands-on role helps ensure the timely receipt, movement, storage, and delivery of materials needed to support production while maintaining inventory accuracy, safety, and operational efficiency.

The Materials Lead serves as the primary point of contact for the team during assigned shifts, promoting a culture of safety, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities include leading and coordinating the daily activities of Material Handlers and other assigned team members to support production schedules and customer requirements, assigning work, monitoring progress, and providing hands-on support across receiving, inventory control, staging, replenishment, and material movement.

Additional duties involve ensuring raw materials, components, and finished goods are accurately received, stored, labeled, and delivered to designated locations, coordinating with Production, Purchasing, Planning, Shipping, and Quality teams to ensure uninterrupted material flow, and monitoring material availability and proactively addressing shortages to minimize production downtime.

The Materials Lead also supports inventory accuracy through cycle counts, audits, transaction verification, and discrepancy resolution, ensures ERP/MRP system transactions are completed accurately and in a timely manner, operates forklifts and other material handling equipment safely and efficiently, and trains and mentors new employees on material handling processes, equipment operation, safety procedures, and quality expectations.

The role also promotes and enforces company safety policies, housekeeping standards, and regulatory compliance, identifies opportunities to improve material flow, reduce waste, and increase operational efficiency through lean manufacturing practices, assists leadership with daily reporting, workforce planning, and departmental communication, provides coaching and constructive feedback to team members while fostering a positive and collaborative work environment.