Materials Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Development: Directly manage, mentor, and schedule the plant's Inventory Control specialists and Warehouse Receiving teams (including hourly associates), fostering a culture of safety, accuracy, and accountability.
• Fresh Fruit & Harvest Management: Oversee the intake, staging, and rotation of fresh apples and other perishable fruit ingredients. Coordinate closely with agricultural procurement to handle intense seasonal harvest surges, prioritizing fruit quality and shelf-life constraints (FIFO/FEFO).
• Inventory Control & System Accuracy: Maintain ultimate accountability for plant-wide inventory accuracy. Direct cycle counting programs, physical inventory audits, and optimize Material Requirements Planning (MRP) for packaging (pouch film, cups, PET jars) and processing ingredients.
• On &Off-Site Footprint Management: Architect and manage space allocation across the plant's on-site warehouses and external third-party logistics (3PL} off-site storage locations, maximizing capacity and minimizing double-handling.
• Cold Storage & Food Safety Compliance: Supervise the logistics and strict temperature-monitoring protocols for cold storage environments holding fruit concentrates and sensitive ingredients. Ensure 100% compliance with FDA, SQF, and allergen segregation standards.
• Inbound Logistics & Dock Optimization: Direct inbound transportation scheduling and carrier gate-control. Optimize dock utilization to minimize demurrage charges and ensure a steady, predictable stream of packaging and raw ingredients to the production floor.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Agribusiness, or Operations Management.
• Experience: 5+ years of experience in materials management, warehouse leadership, or inventory control within a food manufacturing plant. Experience in agribusiness or a highly seasonal processing environment is required.
• Fresh Produce/Fruit Expertise: Direct experience managing the receipt, storage, and handling of perishable agricultural commodities (specifically fresh apples) and temperature-controlled bulk ingredients.
• People Management: Minimum of 3 years of experience directly managing salary supervisors and/or hourly warehouse, receiving, and inventory personnel.
• Technical Proficiency: Deep working knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Warehouse Management Systems (WMS). Familiarity with how material availability feeds into long-range planning software like FutureMaster is highly valued.
• Certifications: APICS certification is highly preferred

Working Environment

Physical Demands