McWane Ductile Ohio – Inventory Control Manager

McWane is an equal employment opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices. McWane will not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran or service member status, marital status, citizenship status or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is usually required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision and peripheral vision. The work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.,

Job Description

Basic Duties and Responsibilities: Manages people and processes that affect the integrity of the inventory and our system. Drives best practices that result in higher inventory turns, lower costs, fewer internal and supplier issues, and top-level customer service. Encourages teamwork between Supply Chain departments (Inventory Control, Shipping and Purchasing) and production, sales, accounting, and other MDO departments.

• Develops tools and drives best practices in managing accurate inventory including cycle counting, analyzing stocking plans and ensuring processes are accurate and being followed.
• Streamlines system processes in all scheduling positions and shows a sense of urgency with supporting production efficiencies and delivering the highest level of customer service.
• Maintains the system integrity: Creation of new, non-pipe SKUs, current item, descriptions, and weights; Routings and BOMs; ROP, ROQ, and SS; Configurator; Vendor details; etc.
• Maintains resale pricing for use in sales in quoting and price requests.
• Uses MRP and Excel to place and receive purchase orders with accurate dates. Maintains completed files.
• Logs/maintains Resale Vendor Issue System. Semi-annually communicates supplier rating system.
• Runs and directs part of Annual Physical Inventory. Works with various departments to continuously improve the process. Participates in bi-monthly pipe inventories.
• Manages, tracks, and communicates monthly all shipping shortages. Drives Corrective Actions for continuous improvement.
• Build strong relationships with team and external contacts to enhance collaboration and speed of trust
• Engage actively in hands-on tasks and decision-making processes
• Has strong written, oral, communication and facilitation skills
• Is able to delivers bad new quickly and keeps supervisor informed of important matters as they arise.
• Understands and communicates the McWane Way Compass principles, values, and behaviors.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Leads the scheduling team. Hiring, interviewing, training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems. Motivates and encourages teamwork within the department to ensure objectives are met.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree plus 2 years of related experience in some part of the supply chain preferred; or 5 years of related experience in multiple manufacturing supply chain positions (purchasing, scheduling, inventory control).
• Experience with managing others, managing change, and driving accountability
• Certified in APICS/ASCM CPIM or CSCP preferred.
• Computer literate; proficient with Microsoft Windows, MS Office programs and applications. Mid to high level use in Excel with ability to create pivot tables and create formulas and graphs/charts. Experience in Microsoft Dynamics 365 or other Dynamic OS preferred.
• Must have a high attention to detail with time and priority management.
• Ability to work with a diverse group of people and encourage and motivate people to take ownership and pride in their work. Demonstrated experience with driving and maintaining change

Additional Information

McWane, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Employment is made available to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, and marital status, disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with reasonable accommodation, Vietnam Era or veteran status. This policy applies to hiring, placement, recruitment, rates of pay or other forms of compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, layoffs, recalls, Company-sponsored training, terminations, and other employment-related activities.

McWane Ductile – Ohio is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Female, minority, veteran, and disabled candidates are encouraged to apply

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
McWane is a Federal VEVRAA contractor, and an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices. McWane will not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran or service member status, marital status, citizenship status (In IL – sex, including same sex, ancestry, order of protection status, physical or mental disability, military status, pregnancy, unfavorable discharge status, genetic information), (In IA – gender identity), (In CA- gender identity or expression, and genetic information) or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.