About Pierce, an Oshkosh company
At Pierce Manufacturing, we build trucks that protect people and communities around the world. To our team, there is no room for anything less than providing the absolute best. Since 1913, building truck bodies on Model T Ford chassis in an old converted church has evolved to creating highly customized, carefully designed and engineering pumpers, aerials, tankers and rescue units that have no equal. Today, you'll find more than 30,000 Pierce apparatuses on the road that are making a difference in people's lives, every day. To us, every step in the process of building our trucks is personal. From innovation and expertise, to the customization and service. Our trucks are designed to perform under the toughest conditions.
SUMMARY
Responsible for creating, improving, and maintaining effective processes that assist in inventory control, inventory accuracy, metric measurement, and continuous improvement throughout the materials department. Performs tasks that tie materials functions together, but also critically analyzes results to drive process improvement.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Raw Material Inventory Control
Manage the ongoing cycle count process, implement improvements
Reconcile count discrepancies through physical recounts and ERP investigation Manage critical parts shortages including daily reporting on content, effects, and countermeasures
Identify and disposition excess and obsolete inventory in conjunction with PFEP and Accounting groups
Material Review Board representative for Materials in non-compliant inventory disposition Leadership role during Physical Inventory including collaboration with internal and external auditors
- Whole Goods Inventory Control
Responsible for the Whole Goods inventory process, including chassis
Create and maintain processes and cross-functional discipline to relate physical location of chassis and whole goods to the location listed in JD Edwards
Create and maintain the transactional discipline for movement of chassis and whole goods
- Bill of Material
- Planning
Responsible for Planning Bill creation, maintenance, and regeneration to drive MRP planning. Includes systematic and manual updates.
Partner with PFEP and GPSC groups in the setup of MRP planning parameters. Understand and correlate inventory reduction plans and strategies to planning parameters and be able to quantify the risks and rewards.
- Metrics
Manage existing metrics or create new metrics surrounding
- Cycle Count
Accuracy and Issues Pareto Inventory Level and Change
Convert reduction targets into action plans and execute
Analyze areas where performance does not meet expectations and implement solutions
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelors degree in related field with three (3) or more years of manufacturing experience.
OR an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Strong willingness to learn.
Must have materials management experience in a manufacturing environment
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience in lean manufacturing principles, MRP based planning, visual replenishment planning, inventory control, metric creation, tracking, countermeasures, cycle counts
·Bill of Material (BOM) Review
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