Job Details

Work Activities/Duties:

· Champion safety compliance and efforts within the storeroom and other areas under your supervision. Ensure the ongoing safety of yourself and team members by ensuring safety is a core Value, participating in mill safety programs, and growing and maintaining a culture of safety.

· Ensure compliance with all safety, purchasing, stores, and environmental policies and procedures.

· Manage activities related to material requirements planning, inventory control, warehousing, issue/delivery and receiving of repairable maintenance goods. This includes negotiating pricing for repair and return materials to secure optimal pricing.

· Responsible for maintaining accurate counts of machine clothing and finishing materials located at an off-site warehouse. This includes the weekly ordering of finishing materials as needed.

· Owns the vending machine process and works with vendor to ensure correct supplies are maintained at all times in each machine.

· Monitor demand, stocking levels, timely delivery, and receipt of materials to identify opportunities for supply process improvements, cost savings and to ensure availability of material to meet customer requirements.

· Work with internal customers to identify and address unmet needs that align with inventory, procurement, and business unit goals to deliver long term value.

· Manage inventory in accordance with corporate guidelines and mandates including inventory reduction, increasing consignment inventory, etc.

· Perform cost and inventory analysis to reduce inventory costs, maintain equipment reliability and ensure availability of materials. This includes reviewing inventory reports, attending planning meetings, and communicating with stakeholders to determine appropriate inventory levels and priorities.

· Act as liaison between maintenance and procurement on supplier questions, expedites, and delivery coordination.

· Oversee daily reorder report to maintain inventory needs for min/max and demand reliability.

· Lead initiatives and projects designed to improve safety, compliance, effectiveness, and improved efficiencies for the operation of the storeroom. Develop, manage, and meet Storeroom KPIs for continuous improvement efforts.

· Collaborate with cross-functional teams at the facility and corporate to implement corporate and facility initiatives.

· Manage handling, security and distribution of incoming/outgoing materials and equipment

· Maintain Stores buildings and assets under supervision.

· Manage consigned, non-consigned, vendor owned or 3rd party inventory.

· Collaborate with mill personnel, category managers, procurement and other stakeholders to accurately create, extend or edit items in the material master.

· Involve in all new capital installations and ensure any required spares are identified and maintained.

· Implement smart inventory tracking technology (e.g. RFID tags, bar codes, etc.) for at least critical and/or high value inventory.

· Work with all internal departments to resolve any MRO related Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) activities.

· Manage warranty and returns with suppliers.

· Manage and review catalogs in Ariba and ensure storeroom prices mirror those in Ariba catalog of the preferred supplier.

· Request quotes for spare parts, tooling, services, etc. from sourced suppliers or OEM; review quotes for accuracy, and negotiate best total cost of ownership (TCO) for the company.

· Manage end-of-life components with contract manufacturers and source alternate supplies in conjunction with engineering approvals.

· Plan and coordinate work, train, motivate, monitor and evaluate performance of your direct reports. Counsel, record, and discipline as necessary; ensure accountability across team.

· Analyze and control expenditures of department within budgetary requirements; meet departmental financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, and analyzing variances.

· Develop positive relationships and maintain rapport with suppliers, driving to continuous-improvement goals of optimal cost, quality, service, availability, and delivery.

· Maintain proactive and helpful outlook with internal stakeholders and suppliers while maintaining and asserting storeroom policies.

· Ensure all statutory, regulatory and internal controls requirements are followed and met in the storeroom process.

· Ensure company-owned vehicles are properly utilized and maintained.

· Ensure all activities are conducted ethically, with integrity.

· Complete any other relevant duties as assigned by supervisor.