Material Coordinator

About the role

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. We’re looking to add a Materials Coordinator located in Henrico, reporting to the Materials Manager.

The Materials Coordinator role involves various duties within the material function such as inventory control, material planning and distribution.

Responsibilities

• Computes amount of material required to complete job orders.
• Reviews production schedules and related information and confers with purchasing to define adequacy of raw materials.
• Requisitions material and establishes sequential delivery dates to departments, according to production plan, job order priorities and material availability, avoiding excess inventory positions.
• Examines material delivered to production departments to verify conformance to specifications.
• Arranges in-plant transfer of materials to meet production schedules, moving or transporting materials from one department to another.
• Compiles and maintains both manual and computerized records such as material inventory, in process production reports, and status and location of materials.
• Creates, updates, executes and analyzes reports.
• Gathers data, tracks, posts and pitches for action plans and root analysis.
• Prioritizes data entry activities.
• Examines material delivered to production departments to verify conformance to specifications.
• Monitors and controls movement of material and parts for accurate inventory.
• Writes procedures, updates them in document control.
• Follows all distribution related ISO procedures, and Material Handling Guidelines.
• Conducts training sessions for department's MRP procedures.
• Administers the inventory cycle count program, reconciles discrepancies, resolves issues, and analyzes inventory cycle count reports.
• Identifies parts and supplies that need to be ordered to maintain specified stocking levels.
• Analyzes stock usage and defines correct stocking levels.
• Investigates unusual high usage of materials and parts and suggests methods of correcting problem found.
• Stocks and issues materials or merchandise.
• In charge of adding new part numbers to current inventory based on input from manufacturing.
• Verifies the accuracy of the material kit vs. the pick list for correct parts by checking that all parts are packaged and contained in the kit.
• Tracks defect levels on inspected kits, calculates quality performance, charts result, develops process improvements and schedules work of others.

Requirements

• High school Diploma or equivalent required completion of secondary school, vocational training, or equivalent with experience in the use of computer applications plus one year of general clerical experience.
• May require minimal functional process knowledge.
• Use of the following tools may be required: Office Skills: typing, telephones, office software to include, word processing, spreadsheets, presentation packages and database systems.
• Experience in the use of computer applications, Inventory Experience, BAAN or any ERP experience, Inventory Cycle count.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients and other employees of the organization.