
Materials Analyst
- Grand Island, NE
- $57,000-95,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Receive, analyze and forward requirements to suppliers to ensure accurate and timely delivery of parts.
- Identify and assist in resolving delivery performance problems to reduce late purchased parts and subsequent production down time.
- Maintain communications with suppliers to identify late or short deliveries to enable alternate action to be taken and to provide updates to manufacturing personnel.
- Maintain open communications with Manufacturing to keep informed on late deliveries and potential quality problems.
- Develop or assist with contingency plans for late deliveries to enable realistic delivery dates to be transmitted to production for workforce and Shipping requirements.
- Contact potential suppliers on new parts for estimated delivery to ensure parts availability to meet production and Shipping objectives; monitor planning of purchased parts to ensure requirements are satisfied.
- Analyze trends and keep management advised of action to improve or dissolve chronic suppliers.
- Guide and train less experienced personnel in the techniques of supervising and coordinating on-time deliveries.
- Monitor lead times of purchased parts, by supplier. Inform management when lead times move out of acceptable and expected time frames.
- Maintain quality metrics by supplier.
- Order and expedite parts that are outside the normal lead time to support short lead adds in manufacturing.
- Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
- OR high school diploma/GED plus 5 or more years in a manufacturing environment.
- Material Analyst Role, preferably 5 years experience
- APICS certification
- Strong communication skills to share fairly complex information with team and/or audiences not knowledgeable of the subject matter.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Good problem solving skills.
- Experience creating reports and conducting analysis.
- Self directed and motivated.
- Flexible work arrangements
- Savings & Retirement benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Fertility & Family building support
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Charitable contribution matching and Volunteer Time Off