Materials Management Leader

Materials Management Leader

Hypertherm Associates is looking for a new Materials Management Leader to join the OMAX team in Kent, WA!

As a Materials Management Leader of the OMAX Warehouse Operations, Logistics, and Production Support team you are responsible for ensuring operational excellence.  You will build the organizational capability, drive team engagement, maintain high standards for performance and continuously improve the value streams to meet our customers’ expectations for quality, delivery, performance, and value at the lowest possible cost.  

You will make an impact in this role through:

• Leadership: Align team activities with company goals; manage performance, development, and workplace safety

• Continuous Improvement: Lead and mentor teams in development of continuous improvement skills

• Safety: Resolve safety issues, mitigate risks, and support EHS policy development

• Quality: Track metrics, identify issues, and implement corrective actions to improve performance metrics

• Capacity & Planning: Collaborate with Category Managers, Master Schedulers and Planning team to support production planning and resolve material shortages

• Financial Acumen & Reporting: Control costs, manage staffing, and report performance metrics to address gaps through process improvement

• Operations Support: Develop and execute production plans; support Front-Line Leaders in meeting targets

Who you are and the experience you bring:

• AS degree with 7+ years or BS with 3-5 years leadership experience in a manufacturing environment in a lean environment

• Excellent ability to prioritize multiple tasks

• Intermediate Project Management experience

• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint)

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Intermediate presentation skills

• Demonstrated ability to apply lean manufacturing principles

• Data and financial analytical skills

Preferred Experience that differentiates you:

• Green belt certification

• ERP and WMS experience (i.e. Oracle)

Location: Kent, Washington

Travel: Minimal to NH or Tradeshows

Why join Hypertherm Associates?

• Collaborative, 100% employee-owned culture  

• Profit-Sharing and Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP)  

• Five days/year paid Community Service Time  

• Strong commitment to Environmental Stewardship  

• Stable, growing organization with a no-layoff philosophy  

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At Hypertherm Associates, we are committed to building an inclusive diverse, flexible, and collaborative environment. If our mission resonates with you, but you don’t meet all posted requirements, we encourage you to still apply.  We will evaluate your application materials and may suggest alternative roles that better leverage your strengths and talents.  For positions with multiple levels, we will evaluate your prior experience to determine the level within our organization you are best aligned based upon the job applying.

CURRENT ASSOCIATES OR TEMPORARY ASSOCIATES: Please apply via your internal Workday career account.

This is the base pay range that an applicant can expect to make upon hire.

Pay within this range will vary based upon relevant experience, skills, and education among other factors.