Materials Supervisor

Overview Are you someone who is passionate, motivated, and driven to make a difference? If so, MSA Safety is the perfect fit for your career.

At MSA, SAFETY is who we are AND it is what we do. We are a purpose-driven company committed to deploying innovation and technology to deliver on our Mission to help protect people and assets all around the world. We continue to be relentless in our pursuit of solving our customers greatest problems so they can go home safe each and every day.

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Responsibilities The Materials Supervisor leads the end-to-end supply chain scope at MSA China, including production and materials planning, purchasing, inventory control, and warehouse management. The role supervises a team at the Suzhou factory and works closely with cross-functional teams such as Customer Service, Demand Planning, Production, Quality, Sourcing, Marketing, and Finance to ensure efficient operations and a strong customer experience.

Responsibilities Production Planning

• Work with demand planner to review and align demand forecast
• Make and develop a robust capacity planning and level production
• Be responsible for production scheduling across production line
• Proactively identify production related bottlenecks in advance, and address solution to ensure production runs smoothly
• Track daily output vs plan
• Support NPD launch on time
• Optimize production planning process and improve efficiency.
• Execute ECN Change related to planning
• Responsible for updating in-house production leadtime, total replenishment leadtime, strategy group and tier type etc. master data

Materials Planning and Purchasing

• Be responsible for materials planning and purchasing through running MRP
• Follow up with suppliers to ensure the right materials with right quantity to arrive on time
• Settle supplier quality problems and delivery issues by working with cross functions
• Lead materials supply process optimization and continuous improvement
• Responsible for updating safety stock, MoQ, purchasing lead time, GR leadtime, MPR type, procurement type and special procurement etc. master data
• Assist to monitor and control materials cost

Warehouse management and inventory control

• Fully responsible for warehouse management including raw materials, FG and delivery
• Be responsible for inventory control covering FIFO, stock taking, shelf-life management
• Ensuring all warehouse activities adhere to safety requirements and corporate rules.
• Organizing storage for maximum efficiency and easy access.
• Keeping precise records of all incoming and existing products to ensure adequate stock levels
• Be responsible for warehouse 6S management
• Be responsible for leading warehouse continuous improvement initiatives

Others

• People coaching and people management
• Preparation and submission of various reports per request
• Team’s performance assessment
• Other assignment from supervisor

Qualifications Experience (required)

• 5+ years purchasing / procurement experience
• Advanced skills with Excel and data analytics

Experience (preferred)

• Experience using SAP PP/MM module (S4 HANA)
• Advanced excel skills
• Fluent in English (including listening and oral as well)
• Direct planning and purchase of low and high volume / high mix material
• Prior experience in electronics industry or automotive preferred
• Strong negotiation and communication capability
• Strong-stress-resilient
• Highly self-motivated

Education (required)

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain / Engineering /Logistics / Business or Related Field

Education (preferred)

• CPIM