Materials Coordinator

Who We Want:

The primary responsibility of the Materials Coordinator is to data mine, verify, and escalate issues as appropriate to ensure the plant has the necessary inventory levels to support production plans to meet safety stock quantities and ultimately customer demand. They will have responsibility to assist in supporting the Materials Manager to achieve departmental objectives and customer satisfaction through ensuring delivery and production plans are put in place that will minimize if not eliminate production disruptions. Additionally, the Materials Coordinator will have responsibility to monitor outside processes and some tier 2 suppliers to ensure on-time delivery to Challenge.

What You'll Do:

• Maximize on time material availability across plant for all projects and departments.


• Confirm, follow-up, and expedite planned purchase orders to meet required material delivery dates necessary to meet on-time delivery performance to support production requirements.


• Track critical parts and develop/execute delivery plans to ensure no interruptions or downtime to manufacturing line.


• Analyze MRP and production schedules to identify potential material shortage issues well in advance and initiate appropriate corrective action and escalation as required.


• Monitor outsourced processes to ensure delivery to plants in order to ensure production is not disrupted.


• Monitor inventory levels at Subcontracted processes and ensure production plans of inventory


• Accum Management for Interplant requirements


• Follow-up on internal production scheduling to ensure that plans are in place to ensure no interruptions to manufacturing line are


• Support Inventory management – reporting inventory levels out as required


• Manage excess and obsolete inventory including buildout requirements


• Perform special projects and other related duties as assigned.


• Develop and improve plant level KPIs.

When and Where:
This will be a 2nd Shift / 11AM-7PM M-F position located at our facility in Holland, MI. 
Occasionally, this may require you to arrive early, stay late, or work on weekends, outside of our regular hours, to ensure we successfully meet customer needs, deadlines, or urgent requests.

What You Need to Have:

• The ideal candidate will be highly organized and have a solid technology and systems understanding. Additionally, the Material Follow-up Coordinator must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills as they will represent Challenge Manufacturing during all external and internal customer interaction.

• Has high standards of performance for self. 


• Takes responsibility for actions, results, and mistakes.


• Is thorough, accurate, and reliable when performing and completing job tasks; demonstrates honesty and integrity in all aspects of work.


• Maintains positive relationships by constructively resolving conflicts.


• Uses feedback from others to continuously improve performance and work relationships.


• Moves within own and/or other work areas (flexes) to support plant flow.


• Works with sense of urgency to meet needs of external customers and internal processes.


• Maintains knowledge and skills to perform job effectively.


• Has ability to focus on benefits of change and see it as positive; approaches change or newness in constructive/objective manner; views change as learning opportunity.


• Looks for good in others; works collaboratively with others; shares information and knowledge.


• Is at work when scheduled and ensures coverage when absent; takes timely breaks/lunches; uses time wisely.