Material Coordinator

About the role

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 Austin, TX, reporting to the Associate Production Supervisor. The Materials Coordinator is in charge of 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

Requirements

• Requires a minimum of 2 years of administrative experience within the materials, planning or related function
• 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 interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations