Material Supervisor

About Modular Mission Critical
ModularMission Critical™ is the manufacturing campus for M.C. Dean’s complex, modular product line for datacenters and critical infrastructure. Located just north of Richmond, VA, this site is growing fast serving customers worldwide. Important openings include assemblers for our production lines and engineers and designers for products and continuous improvement. Join M.C. Dean’s more than 9,000 employees around the world making an impact through innovations in power and technology.

Why Join Us?
Our people are passionate about innovation that improves lives and drives impactful change. Guided by our core values—agility, expertise, and trust—we foster a collaborative and forward-thinking work environment for employees to build long-term careers.

The Materials Supervisor oversees assigned materials management functions for the Market Place, MMC Warehouse, Receiving, docks, storage/staging areas, and line-side material flow. This role supervises a defined team of materials personnel and ensures material handling, inventory transactions, storage, cycle counts, physical inventory, and distribution activities are accurate, timely, and aligned to production priorities.

The position executes priorities set by the Materials Manager, monitors functional KPIs and metrics, enforces process compliance, and supports accurate inventory control systems. The Materials Supervisor collaborates with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Product Management, Program Management, Procurement, and Scheduling to resolve material issues, support ECNs and launches, and improve material flow within defined M1 leadership scope.

Main Responsibilities:

• Supervise 10-15 direct reports across the Market Place, MMC Warehouse, Receiving, docks, and assigned storage/staging areas; manage time and attendance, employee performance, coaching, and process compliance.
• Train and monitor materials personnel to ensure inventory transactions, material deliveries, receiving, staging, storage, and system updates are completed correctly and on time.
• Manage material flow across production, procurement, external distributors, suppliers, facility transfers, docks, and 30K staging to support timely material availability.
• Maintain inventory accuracy by supervising cycle counts, physical inventory, audits, bin and transaction reconciliations, and corrective actions for variances, shortages, excess/negative inventory, and container discrepancies.
• Create and use reports, dashboards, and analysis to monitor material KPIs, marketplace shortages, inventory accuracy, usage trends, stock levels, and process compliance.
• Maintain organized material storage and point-of-use presentation through 5S, visual inventory systems, FIFO, stock rotation, labeling, repack activities, Kanban, pull-loop adjustments, and Min/Max recommendations.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Product Management, Program Management, Procurement, and Scheduling on work cell layout, line-side presentation, edit reports, new SKUs, ECNs, new model launches, and build-out projects.
• Support Kaizen events, process creation or updates, practical best practices, and continuous improvement efforts that improve inventory accuracy, material flow, space utilization, productivity, and quality.
• Aid and back up the Materials Manager as needed; make routine operational decisions within assigned scope and escalate higher-risk issues, resource constraints, or cross-functional conflicts as appropriate.
• This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties and responsibilities. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, Operations Management, or related field.
• 5+ years of front-line supervisory experience in a high-volume manufacturing, warehouse, materials management, or supply chain environment.
• Experience supervising material handling, warehouse, receiving, dock, inventory control, or production support employees.
• Detailed understanding of MRP/ERP or inventory control systems, inventory transactions, cycle counts, physical inventory, bin reconciliation, and discrepancy resolution.
• Working knowledge of receiving, storage, internal distribution, line-side presentation, FIFO, stock rotation, Kanban, Min/Max, material staging, and visual inventory systems.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel, with the ability to create or analyze reports, dashboards, KPIs, shortages, variances, and corrective actions.
• Ability to multitask, delegate, meet time-sensitive deadlines, communicate accurately, and work effectively in a rapidly changing manufacturing environment.

Preferred

• Lean Six Sigma experience or certification.
• Experience in build-to-order, just-in-time, OEM, or high-volume manufacturing environments.
• Experience supporting Kaizen events, 5S, visual management, ECNs, new SKU introductions, new model launches, or build-out activities.

What we offer:

• A collaborative team inspired by the way engineering and innovation enhance customer outcomes, improve lives, and change the world for the better. We are driven by our core values of agility, expertise, and trust.
• An opportunity to lead and build a business with the support of an industry-leading firm that has been in business for 75 years.
• Investment in your skills and expertise through a combination of professional and technical training programs, including leadership training and tuition reimbursement.
• Open and transparent communication with senior leadership as well as local office management.

We also offer an excellent benefits package including:

• A competitive salary
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• Paid-time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Military Reserve pay offset
• Paid maternity leave

Abilities:

• Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.
• Sitting for extended periods of time.
• Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.
• Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Identify and understand the speech of another person.