Material Specialist

Your Responsibilities

As a Material Specialist at John Deere Waterloo Works located in Waterloo, IA, you will...

• Maintain the flow of materials in multiple departments of the factory and ensure the production personnel have the parts they need in order to produce the desired products.
• Coordinate all activities for the tactical execution of the production plan within the factory.
• Coordinate the procuring, expediting, producing and delivering of material on time
• 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
• Coordinate and communicate the implementation of engineering and material changes
• Assist 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

VISA Sponsorship is NOT available for this position.

What Skills You Need

• 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
• Demonstrates a proactive mindset and strong self-motivation, takes the initiative to identify issues, solve problems, and escalates concerns when needed

Education

Ideally, you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:
 

• Bachelor’s degree in a Business/Management, Engineering/Technology, Supply Management, Accounting/Finance discipline or equivalent related work experience