Materials Manager - Bristol, United Kingdom - Barclay Meade

Barclay Meade

Verified Company

Bristol, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Ambitious and rapidly growing engineering SME require a Materials Manager. Ideally applicants will have experience / exposure in; planning, purchasing, inventory, stores/warehouse management, and logistics factory and external).

The Materials Manager will work closely with the Operations Manager and will be responsible for driving change, LEAN and process improvement across the areas in scope; production planning, purchasing, stores and logistics.

Previous experience to all of theseareas would not be required, but the Materials Manager should be looking to develop in areas that they have not covered before.

The Materials Manager will manage staff in these teams, via supervisors.

Specific duties of the Materials Manager include:

Optimisation of production planning and forecasting activity
Develop Stores/Warehouse team leaders encourage Perpetual Inventory and LEAN inventory management techniques
Improve internal/factory logistics processes
Promote best practice in the area of outbound logistics and foster stronger relationships with couriers/3PLs
Support Operations Manager and businesswide initiatives; MRP/ERP implementation, CI initiatives etc.

Materials Manager applicants should meet the following criteria:

Experience, Exposure or understanding of; planning, purchasing, stores/warehouse management and logistics
Previous management experience
An appetite for change or continuous improvement activities
Understanding of the functions of MRP/ERP
Experience within a manufacturing or engineering business