Material Coordinator (Marne)
Full Time - 1st Shift
(Availability M-F)
Are you looking for a great place to work and a career that will allow you to have a healthy work/life balance? Join our team at Natural Choice Foods, a family-owned company servicing wholesale and retail stores throughout the Midwest.
Natural Choice Foods Values:
- Customer Focused
- Act with a Sense of Urgency
- Quality Focused
- Communication
- Collaboration & Teamwork
- Integrity
Here are just some of what NCF has to offer:
- We offer competitive pay
- Health, dental, and vision coverage available your first day of employment
- Life insurance
- 401(k) available at 6 months, including a company match
- Incentive Plan
- PTO
- Weekly pay
- Employee discounts
Job Summary:
Responsible for directing and coordinating materials to proper locations according to schedule. Material Coordinators are responsible for being accurate in maintaining inventories, databases, and spreadsheets. This role requires a passion for detail work and a commitment to accuracy.
Job Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Strategically develop and assign unique item codes in the ERP system for all source materials, WIP, and finished goods
- Maintain item database within spreadsheets and ERP
- Direct required materials to proper locations according to schedule
- Verify deliveries of materials are inspect for accuracy
- Keep records of inventories, including the status and location of materials
- Track delivery progress and notify affected departments of changes in the delivery schedule
- Establish priority of deliveries based on department needs
- Process purchase order requisitions
- Gather pricing and shipping information
- Data entry, type, file, and place orders with outside vendors
- Expedite orders as required
- Maintain and update all purchasing records and documents
- Process shipping and receiving documents
- Prepare correspondence to expedite purchased materials, revise or change purchase orders, effect cancellations
- Process waste material manifests
- Enter inventory adjustments and run reports
- Advise appropriate personnel of order changes
- Maintain contact with customers to assure timely processing of orders, shipments, and changes
- Report customer problems and concerns to appropriate personnel
- Review and confirm that schedules and shipping dates will meet customer requirements
- Coordinate with sales, inventory control, customer service, and purchasing on upcoming scheduling needs
- Perform a variety of clerical tasks to assure management has the appropriate information for decisions
- Special projects and assignments as directed
- Collect data for purchase/sales decisions
- Perform price corrections
- Monitor efficiency of the digital image process
- Determine what products need pictures and dimensions entered into the ERP system
- Maintain items within databases to correctly reflect size, weight, image, and inventory
- Maintain cleanliness in areas
- Interact professionally with other employees, customers, and suppliers
- Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision
- Work effectively as a team contributor on all assignments
- Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations
- Be detail-oriented, honest, direct, and able to handle more than one task at a time while managing one’s time effectively and maintaining a strong work ethic
- Follows all Natural Choice Foods, Inc. policies and procedures
- Document all transfers, shipments, and movements
- Ensure items are stored in an orderly and accessible manner
- Conducts accurate cycle counting of inventory
- Check equipment to ensure that mechanical, safety and emergency equipment is in good working order
- Regular Attendance required
Competencies:
- Customer Engagement
- Action Oriented
- Results Focused
- Communication
- Collaboration
Supervisory Responsibility:
This position does not have supervisory responsibility.
Work Environment:
The work is generally performed in a warehouse area.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Occasional sedentary (up to 10 pounds), light to medium (up to 50 pounds), and occasional heavy (up to 100 pounds, with assistance) lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling.
While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential tasks.
Required Educational Skills and Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or GED equivalent, Associates preferred
- Strong attention to detail
- Display excellent problem solving and communication skills
- Display ability to function well in an ever-changing environment
- Possess intermediate to advanced skills in Microsoft Excel
- Organizational skills
- Ability to meet the physical demands of the job
- Ability to speak, write, read and follow instructions, correspondence, and memorandums
- Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to management and other employees of the organization
- Ability to communicate effectively with truck drivers about deliveries and returns
- Communicate with Sales regarding orders and trucking logistics
Preferred Educational Skills and Qualifications:
- Familiarity with Lean Manufacturing Principles and Practices
- Safety Management
- Hi-Lo/Forklift license
- Experience in using warehouse equipment (e.g. forklifts, pallet jacks)
PLEASE NOTE: This job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and the Company reserves the right to revise the job description or to require that other or different tasks be performed as circumstances change.
