Materials & Logistics Supervisor

Materials & Logistics Supervisor

Aggressive Hydraulics is a custom hydraulic cylinder manufacturer. We are the leading provider of hydraulic solutions, serving a diverse range of industries. With a commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction, we pride ourselves on delivering innovative products and exceptional service.

Title:

Materials & Logistics Supervisor

Department:

Manufacturing

Direct Supervisor:

Manufacturing Manager

Position Description:

The Materials & Logistics Supervisor is responsible for leading all shipping, receiving, inventory control, and material handling activities to ensure accurate and efficient material flow throughout the manufacturing operation. This position oversees the flow of materials from receipt, through inventory and production, to the final shipment of finished products. The Materials & Logistics Supervisor ensures manufacturing has the right materials in the right place at the right time while also ensuring customer orders are packaged and shipped accurately and on schedule.

This is a hands-on leadership position that requires a strong understanding of manufacturing operations and the relationship between material availability, inventory accuracy, production schedules, and customer commitments. The Materials & Logistics Supervisor leads through the Shipping Lead and Inventory Control Lead while maintaining overall accountability for departmental priorities, employee performance, operational results, and continuous improvement.

Primary Objectives:

• Ensure effective material flow from receiving through manufacturing and final shipment.

• Maintain accurate and reliable inventory through disciplined processes, timely transactions, cycle counting, and resolution of discrepancies.

• Ensure manufacturing departments have the materials needed to support production schedules and customer commitments.

• Ensure finished products are packaged, documented, and shipped accurately and on time.

• Provide clear leadership, direction, development, and accountability across Shipping, Receiving, Inventory Control, and Material Handling.

• Build strong working relationships with internal customers while maintaining focus on the needs of the external customer.

• Identify issues, make timely decisions, and take action to resolve problems.

• Continuously improve departmental safety, accuracy, organization, efficiency, and communication.

Responsibilities:

• Provide overall leadership and direction for Shipping, Receiving, Inventory Control, and Material Handling, including leading and developing the Shipping Lead, Inventory Control Lead, and departmental employees.

• Establish clear priorities, expectations, and accountability while coordinating staffing and workload to support manufacturing schedules and customer commitments.

• Ensure accurate and efficient flow of raw materials, components, work in process, and finished goods from receipt through production and final shipment.

• Maintain overall accountability for inventory accuracy, including timely ERP transactions, cycle counting, physical inventory, discrepancy resolution, and inventory process controls.

• Ensure materials are available, staged, and moved appropriately to support manufacturing needs and minimize production interruptions.

• Oversee shipping and receiving activities to ensure incoming materials are received accurately and finished products are packaged, documented, and shipped correctly and on time.

• Maintain awareness of production priorities and proactively address material shortages, inventory discrepancies, shipping concerns, and other issues that could impact manufacturing or customer commitments.

• Build strong working relationships across Production, Supply Chain, Quality, Sales, and other departments, recognizing these groups as internal customers while maintaining focus on the needs of the external customer.

• Develop, maintain, and reinforce SOPs, standard work, and inventory controls to improve consistency, accuracy, and efficiency.

• Identify opportunities to improve material flow, inventory practices, warehouse organization, space utilization, safety, and overall department performance.

• Use ERP information, operational data, and departmental metrics to identify issues, make informed decisions, and drive corrective action.

• Ensure employees follow established safety procedures, Quality Management System requirements, and proper material-handling practices.

• Foster a culture of ownership, urgency, teamwork, accountability, and continuous improvement, taking action to resolve problems rather than allowing issues to linger.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Three or more years of progressive leadership experience within manufacturing, warehouse, materials, inventory, logistics, or a related operational environment preferred.

• Previous manufacturing experience strongly preferred. The successful candidate must understand how material availability, inventory accuracy, internal material movement, and shipping performance affect production schedules and customer commitments.

• Demonstrated experience leading employees, providing feedback, setting expectations, and creating accountability.

• Experience leading through Lead employees or coordinating multiple functional areas preferred.

• Experience in shipping, receiving, inventory control, material handling, or warehouse operations; experience across multiple areas is strongly preferred.

• Working knowledge of ERP, MRP, or inventory-management systems and the importance of accurate, timely system transactions.

• Experience working with and reinforcing SOPs, standard work, and documented processes.

• Working knowledge of inventory-control principles, cycle counting, physical inventory, and discrepancy resolution.

• Strong problem-solving skills with an action-oriented approach and the ability to move issues toward timely resolution.

• Ability to understand production priorities and balance the needs of multiple internal customers while maintaining focus on the external customer.

• Ability to prioritize competing responsibilities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

• Strong communication, collaboration, employee-leadership, math, and analytical skills.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel.

• Forklift and material-handling knowledge preferred.

• Ability to work actively within warehouse and manufacturing areas and lift up to 50 pounds.

• GWC – (Gets the role, Wants to do it, Capacity to do it)

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Full time employees are eligible for the following benefits:

• Medical insurance through Medica + free in-home acute health care and on-job site health care through Nice for those enrolled on company's medical plan.

• 100% employer paid Health Partners Dental insurance for single and family (if enrolled on medical plan).

• 100% employer paid premiums for Short Term Disability, Long-Term Disability and $50,000 life insurance policy.

• 401K

• Competitive Paid Time Off

Compensation is dependent on a candidates skills and experience. Below identifies an anticipated hiring range:

The pay range for this role is:

32 - 37 USD per hour (Aggressive Hydraulics - Cedar, MN )