Material Specialist

Position

Primary Location: United States (US) - Iowa - Waterloo
Function: Operations (CA)
Title: Material Specialist - 122470
Onsite/Remote: Onsite

Responsibilities

• Cook up the flow of materials in multiple departments of the factory and make sure the production staff have the parts they need to churn out the desired products.
• Coordinate all activities for the tactical execution of the production plan within the factory.
• Leverage the critical shortage reports to ensure part availability.
• Schedule production parts leveraging factory capacity and line constraints.
• Understand the base machine routings for a specific department along with the lead times to the consuming department.
• Participate in ensuring operations can maintain a sequence percentage of above 95% and works to drive root cause corrective action on all sequence hits.
• Oversee and ensure inventory accuracy.
• Provide support to meet all production schedules including complete goods, inter-factory, and service parts.
• Work with material flow teams in establishing root cause for material shortages along with proposing corrective actions.
• Cook up and communicate the implementation of engineering and material changes.
• Aid the production department in manpower planning relative to upcoming demand requirements.
• Communicate and interface with manufacturing management, manufacturing engineering, wage workforce, and material flow support team.

Skills

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple and competing priorities effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in operations/material flow/production planning role in a manufacturing environment.
• SAP experience with production planning and/or Materials Management.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Available to work off hours or weekends occasionally based on business needs.
• Strong data analysis skills.
• Experience with Excel.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Demonstrated ability to develop and improve internal processes.
• Experience with scheduling and sequencing production.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple Waterloo factories and departments.
• Ability to communicate with all organizational levels from production employees through middle managers.

Qualifications

• Education: Ideally, a degree or equivalent related work experience in a Business/Management, Engineering/Technology, Supply Management, or Accounting/Finance discipline.

What You'll Get

• Flexible work arrangements.
• Highly competitive base pay.
• Savings & Retirement benefits (401K and Defined Contribution).
• Healthcare benefits with a generous company contribution in the Health Savings Account.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employee Assistance Programs.
• Tuition assistance.
• Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms at specific Deere locations.
• Charitable contribution match.
• Employee Purchase Plan & numerous discount programs for personal use.
• Vacation and Holiday Pay.

Benefits

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Must Be

• 18 years of age or older to apply.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The John Deere Health Benefit Plans for Salaried Employees and The John Deere Benefit Plan for Wage Employees comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.