Material Controller Job Description
Material controller
provides leadership, vision, direction and focus to the Purchasing, Production Control, and Shipping and Receiving Materials Control Functions.
Material Controller Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective material controller job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included material controller job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Establish, maintain and operate a Materials Control System complying with Materials Control Contract Execution Procedure F04 and Site Materials Control Work Practice F04-14, in conjunction with project specific procurement execution plan and project specific material control procedures
Enter shipping orders as required
Coordinate shipments working with sales coordinators for truckloads, containers and shipment planning working in shipping warehouse
Capable of backing up the clerical duties of the Receiving function in the absence of union associates or when additional help is needed
Audit Receiving receipts for inventory accuracy as necessary
Input cycle count information into Access database
Communicate project status to all levels of management
Ability to align project or process improvement goals with functional business objectives
Using both manual and computer-assisted systems, prepare and issue daily, weekly, and monthly reports, verifying accuracy of source documents
Order special production as required for sales orders
Material Controller Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Material Controller
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: APICS, ADR
Education for Material Controller
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the material controller job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Business, Manufacturing, Management, Education, Communications, Finance, Engineering Technology, Technology, Associates
Skills for Material Controller
Desired skills for material controller include:
Receiving
Shipping
Microsoft Office
Access
Excel
PowerPoint
Project
Product and parts
Company policies and procedures
Materials planning
Desired experience for material controller includes:
Maintain accurate data used for updating Generator inventory files
Get weights and dimensions of generators
Assist Traffic with the rating and routing of inbound and outbound shipments
Assist Traffic with the creation of the inbound/outbound history
Trace and expedite delivery of freight shipments when needed
Is responsible for the maintenance of TIMS table information
Material Controller Examples
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Material Controller Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a material controller. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for material controller
- Analyze computerized materials requirements planning (MRP), verify component or raw material availability, and create stock transfer orders on requests for material delivery to Service or EH
- Identify open transfer orders in SAP and take corrective action
- Create & monitor shortage replenishment for all Assembly line picks submitted, emailing appropriate personnel with that information
- Process outbound shipment RO’s, and VMI receipts through SAP
- Review and log the daily forklift associate audits reports
- Create, submit, and monitor re-imbursement for all building 604 freight claims
- Issue SRM purchase orders as necessary for supplies
- Be capable of solving backflush errors and determining root cause by analyzing production reports, receipts, inventory adjustment activity, finished goods reports, and SAP transactions
- Verifies all inbound materials to ensure accurate accountability
- Enables/disables cart dispatches in a timely manner
Qualifications for material controller
- Proven strong data analysis and reporting skills and experience with at least 2 years of work in a position with comparable skill requirements
- Makes minor adjustments (e.g., misaligned Automated Guided Cart, wrong location, ) to resume smooth and accurate RDS operation
- Proactive management of board and tool inventories
- Placing board orders based on planned projects
- Raw material stock control
- Coordination, negotiation and monitoring of delivery dates
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a material controller. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for material controller
- Development of proposed solutions for reducing inventories
- Cooperation with suppliers
- Assisting with the ongoing improvement of internal processes
- Development of controlling tools for all raw materials
- Ensuring compliance with and monitoring of safety and environmental responsibility guidelines
- Deputising for colleagues
- Ensure the provision of Right Material at Right Location at Right Time to support the construction schedule fabrication and erection/installation requirements
- Responsible for inventory accuracy of assigned material
- Utilize inventory database of assigned materials within the system
- Notify Planner of any impending shortages, , late deliveries, inventory shrinkage, BOM issues, etc
Qualifications for material controller
- A genuine interest in business
- Main responsibility will be to interpret and explain EPC-customer´s business requirements for IT development teams
- Must be able to demonstrate a high level of written English
- Excellent written communication skills, including the ability to produce specifications and presentations
- Comfortable presenting to large audiences, such as user groups
- Business analysis skills using formal analysis techniques
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of material controller. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for material controller
- Interacts and works closely with operations and reliability department to understand priorities, schedules and plans
- Coordinates with Fixed Asset Accounting on inventory cycle counting and other Accounting Requests Quotes to adjust Moving Average Price of Idle Inventory, Write-Down/Write-up material
- Propose, implement and support multi-site or high level business tools and process enhancements (continuous process improvement)
- Expert on analyzing, and documenting processes using standards and methodologies
- Analyze entire supply chain including logistics costs, materials and sources
- Recommend improvements based on supply chain analysis
- Manage large projects related to changes in the supply chain
- Represent the supply chain on cross functional business unit teams
- Requires ability to define high risk or high level problems, collect data, analyze data, offer solutions, and implement to achieve the desired results
- Identify, develop and complete strategic level work plans for entire supply chain or high risk projects
Qualifications for material controller
- Ability to communicate well with business contacts, management and peers
- Must be a self-starter and able to work without explicit direction
- Must work effectively as part of distributed team
- Ensure the team is building software products that meet the business requirements
- Define the requirements for deliverables, based on the business strategy agreed by Product Strategy
- Produce suitable documentation (specifications, storyboards ) for product development and test activities
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Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a material controller. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for material controller
- Own, develop and implement business processes and related improvements
- Facilitate large teams having explicit objectives and scope
- Manage entire supply chain cross-functional projects
- Ability to work independently across the entire supply chain and thrive in non-hierarchical organization
- Coordinate JIS/JIT parts and register of JIS/JIT incidents
- Establishes storage locations
- Follow all relevant departmental policies, processes, standard operating procedures and instructions so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner
- Have good interpersonal and communication skills, coupled with an ability to form effective relationships with partners and team members under time pressure
- Have the strategic insight to understand the range of opportunities in invitations to tender
- Create Material Master Records for replacement and wear parts and classify them
Qualifications for material controller
- Host sprint planning workshops internally to produce clear development direction for iterations
- Review deliverables and demonstrable software after every sprint, with authority to accept or reject
- Work with Technical Authors to produce user documentation
- Produce estimates in co-operation with developers and testers
- Produce presentations
- To support Roadmap proposals to the business
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of material controller. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for material controller
- Programme Manage delivery of all new or re-introduction parts, working in conjunction with their SCA owned Plant/Cell, SCMT and vendor teams, ensuring the plan is created, monitored and executed in line with the commitment to the IPT or project team
- Record and classify material numbers to spare parts when creating MMRs
- Administer necessary plant views for spare wear part materials
- Maintain the Spare Parts SAP database
- Document Info Records
- Create / Maintain trigger and min/max inventory levels
- Update Machine BOMs when new MMRs are created for a new part on a machine
- Ensure compliance with all safety and housekeeping regulations
- Assist in maintaining Spare Parts Storage area
- Ownership and maintenance of material control related data on the company’s manufacturing system, such as
Qualifications for material controller
- To support product delivery
- Plan and deliver training and learning activities in the form of demos, webinars, workshops both internally in AVEVA and externally for ERM customers
- Contributes to continual improvement of methods, processes, templates, tools, to improve efficiency, repeatability and knowledge transfer
- Involvement in software development including complex enterprise applications
- Experience of agile software development methodology & software development lifecycle
- Degree in Electrical or Mechanical engineering or equivalent