Materials Manager

Tenneco is one of the world’s largest pure-play powertrain companies serving OE markets worldwide with engineered solutions addressing fuel economy, power output, and criteria pollution requirements for gasoline, diesel and electrified powertrains.

We are looking for a Materials Manager.

This position supervises and trains personnel in purchasing, production control, inventory control, customer service, traffic departments

Our recruiting team is ready to act immediately.

You’ll first hear from someone in Talent Acquisition to schedule a phone screen, and then the next step will be a personal interview with our Hiring Manager.

We pride ourselves on moving through the process quickly, and you can be sure of transparency and prompt communication.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Plans and implements activities related to the timely, cost-effective procurement, inventory control, planning, and quality control of raw materials.

Develops, implements, and maintains policies, procedures, and material control systems to reduce cost, and streamline operations.
Develop and provide leadership to department personnel in effectively utilizing a master production schedule to plan and provide the required levels of finished goods, a materials requirement system to ensure components necessary to produce finished goods, and systems to maintain acceptable inventory levels to meet customer requirements.
Assist in the development and implementation of solutions to problems affecting the flow of material and support of customers.

Coordinates with manufacturing and finance on matters involving inventory related cost.
Maintains communication efforts with customers and sales team to understand order patterns and delivery performance criteria.
Reviews requisitions.

Confers with vendors to obtain product or service information such as price, availability, and delivery schedule.
Selects products for purchase by testing, observing, or examining items.

Estimates values according to knowledge of market price.
Determines method of procurement such as direct purchase or bid.
Reviews bid proposals and negotiates contracts within budgetary limitations and scope of authority.
Maintains procurement records such as items or services purchased, costs, delivery, product quality or performance, and inventories.
Discusses defective or unacceptable goods or services with inspection or quality control personnel, users, vendors, and others to determine source of trouble and take corrective action.
Reviews and approves invoices for payment.
Expedites delivery of goods to users.
Schedules, supplies, and manages material for outside processing.
Loads, maintains, and reviews RPS System.
Negotiates and develops cost savings.
Drive continuous improvement activity throughout the plant, utilizing tools such as value stream mapping, kaizen events, 5-S process, and other lean production principles.
Acts as the plant manager’s back up and fills in when the plant manager is not available.
May give certain authority to assigned staff within their job scope to perform duties, make decisions, and use independent judgments.
Each employee has the authority to initiate action to prevent a violation of the Federal-Mogul Integrity Policy.
All employees will abide by the plant’s safety policy, comply with the legal and other requirements and operational controls established, work toward achieving established objectives and targets, and conform to procedures consistent with the ISO 14001 standard.

An employee should report, and if necessary stop, any activity that does not conform to the policy or may injure himself/herself.
Capable of providing support as requested by supervisor.

Required Experience

EDUCATION: Bachelors Degree in related field required or 4
– 6 years experience in related field like logistics or supply chain management.

An Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.