POSITION SUMMARY:

Responsible to manage all aspects of materials flow. Maintain control and accuracy over all goods inventories, including all transactions, planning, scheduling, cost, warehouse, receiving, and shipping to ensure that customer orders are fulfilled on time.

COMPANY BACKGROUND:

Control Devices, LLC ("Control Devices" or "CD") is a leading designer and manufacturer of high quality flow control valves, condensate removal traps, related components and accessories serving the compressed air, pressure washer, vehicle systems, fire protection, specialty gas, and the industrial, agricultural and food service float valve markets.  CD prides itself in the ability to design, innovate and manufacture flow control valves for custom applications and offers a line of standard products that has grown over the years.  CD is based in Saint Louis, MO and its products are sold on a global basis to O.E.M's, Distributors and End Users.  

Control Devices is a privately owned company with a very seasoned management team focused on organic sales growth with existing products and new revenue growth through acquisitions.

KEY RESULT AREAS:

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Coordinate the details that keep materials flowing through the factory so that products can continue to flow out of the factory. Planning, directing, coordinating the process of receiving materials, delivering material to the production, and shipping finished good product. Developing the department into a cross-functional team working for a common goal.

QUALIFICATIONS:

REQUIREMENTS:

REQUIRED EDUCATION:

Bachelor Degree, in a business other related disciplines. Masters Degree in related field a plus.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

At least 5 years progressive experience in management of materials within a design and manufacturing environment.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

Develop, implement and manage cross-functional, fully integrated planning process that incorporates capacity planning, scheduling, material and associated cost elements.

Establish and implement methods and best practices related to the systems and process that support inventory and material control.

Prepares customer delivery reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends and uses information to proactively communicate potential late deliveries.

Establish, implement, and manage system to evaluate, monitor and report customer on time delivery performance.

Adhere to established company policies, procedures, terms and conditions and legal matters that affect warehouse policies.

Coordinate and work with quality, engineering, machining and assembly operations to ensure 100% on-time delivery

by establishing and monitoring schedule to proactively identify and address any issues.

Responsible for accuracy of inventory counts by implementing and managing, in conjunction with Finance, an inventory

control system, capable of identifying discrepancies in inventory counts and taking corrective action to guard against inconsistencies in the future.

Change Management, Project Implementation, Process

   Development.

Achieves financial objectives by working with management group to prepare the materials budget, schedule expenditures, analyze variances and initiate corrective actions.

Participates as a member of the operations team in making cross-functional operational decisions.

Participates in CAR meetings to resolve delivery issues working with both internal and external resources.

Maintains a safe and healthy work environment by implementing, maintaining and aligning company policies that

adhere to local, state and federal environmental, health and safety regulations.

DESIRED SKILLS:

Maintain and provide current understanding of industry best practices and technology trends.

Identify tools, processes and metrics to optimize department value.

Leads by example and motivates people so as to create a challenging, empowering, and collaborative working environment.

Good technical writing, documentation, and record keeping skills.

Good analytical problem solving ability.

Ability to contribute in a cross functional collaborative environment.

Financial skills including cost modeling, cost analysis.

Ability to leverage metrics and other tools to drive department performance.

Ability to work in a fast paced high volume environment

Experience using Macola MRP

Ability to communicate professionally with people at all levels within the organization

Experience with WMS

Experience with implementing a barcoding system in a shipping and    

  receiving environment.

Ability to establish and manage multi-site warehousing facilities.

Demonstrate the ability to reduce shipping errors in a high volume

  environment.

Experience developing or working in a lean material flow environment.

Skilled at building external and internal relationships

Understanding of manufacture flow in a discrete production environment

Understanding Bills of Materials 

Strong analytical skills

Attention to detail

CPM,CPSM, CPIM a plus