Material Coordinator

Post Consumer Brands Job Opportunity

Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company's portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats, PEBBLES, Grape-Nuts and Malt-O-Meal cereal, and Peter Pan peanut butter, as well as Nutrish, Kibbles 'n Bits and 9Lives dog and cat food. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea : To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all.

At Post Consumer Brands, we've spent generations showing up for families, starting with breakfast, the most important meal of the day. Our cereals have become a trusted part of daily routines, helping spark conversations, fuel busy mornings, and create everyday moments that bring families closer together, including their furry four-legged family members, who have recently become a part of our story. As families have evolved, so have we. What began at the breakfast table has expanded into snacks, peanut butter, and, more recently, pet food, because caring for a family means feeding every part of it. With the addition of several iconic pet brands, we've extended our purpose : to make high-quality, accessible food for everyone under the same roof. This phase is still new, and that's what makes it exciting. As we continue to grow across grocery and pet, we're looking for people who care about good food, thoughtful work, and the kind of impact that stretches from store shelves to kitchen tables, and food bowls, across the country.

Post Consumer Brands in Battle Creek, Mich., the cereal capital of the U.S., is the company's largest manufacturing plant and home to about 600 team members. When you join the team here, you'll be helping to produce some of the most iconic cereal brands, including Honey Bunches of Oats cereal, PEBBLES cereal, Grape-Nuts and Honeycomb cereal. The Battle Creek plant is also unique as it is home to the original barn where C.W. Post started the Postum cereal company in 1895. The Battle Creek team has deep community roots, supporting the city's Cereal Festival, The Post Foundation, and participating in several volunteer events throughout the year.

Responsibilities

Manage material receipts, confirming actual delivered quantities and pricing are accurate in JDE at the time for entry. Coordinate with Corporate Procurement, Material Handlers, Coaches; perform daily manifold audits and develop Material Handler development through counting materials, material transfer paperwork, accountability with the exclusive intent of zero variances due to mis-count, missing receipt, missing transfers.

Job Duties

• Monitor daily production.
• Validate manifold documentationfollow up with the material Handlers for training as needed.
• Enter all receipts and validate entry is correct.
• Monitoring outstanding open orders through the PO Due In report.
• Communicate any deliveries not met to Packaging Specialist as well as any outstanding P.O.'s to be moved and or deleted.
• Manage all JDE transfers, including working directly with the Material Handlers to ensure paperwork is filled out correctly. Provide training as necessary.
• Monitoring and correcting raw materials / product movement errors.
• Work closely with Operators to manage daily deliveries; moving orders as needed to reduce the number of movement's necessary, double handling and ensuring no call ins on the off shift while managing inventory levels.
• Manage yard management in JDE, publishing trailer report to building personnel 3X / week.
• Reconcile trailer inventories and location in JDE as well as re-train hourly personnel as needed.
• Develop a trailer reconciliation process to be used by all buildings to track Post owned trailers, ensuring 100% traceability, accurate material inventory within the trailer etc.
• Manage materials on trailer with the goal of using zero rental trailers.
• Performing month-end clean up (no negative inventory in WIP, no outstanding errors). Coordinate and perform month-end inventory activities by working closely with the Material Handlers and all related support staff.
• Manage inventory accuracy through timely variance resolution, zero negative inventory management and JDE transaction error resolution.
• Problem solving to investigate root cause of problem and identify corrective actions.
• Perform tasks asked by Supervisor and Finance personnel.
• Train to and enforce hold area and tag policy.
• Monitor unloading procedures, ensuring policies are followed. Communicate, re-train as needed.
• Train hourly personnel in inventory counting.
• Work with Feed Plant, PCO, and Grain Tanks Operators on cycle count dates and accompany for double count and validating the physical count has been completed.
• Conduct pre-cycle count inspections to ensure 5S is in place for accurate counts.
• Develop cycle count procedures and processes to be used plant-wide in accordance with the Narrative to ensure we are within compliance 100% of the time, throughout the year.
• Prepare, coordinate, develop long-term process for year-end audit and inventory ensuring counting is conducted the same way year round, that the narrative is being followed, working a few months in advance with all building personnel to ensure an accurate, smooth compliant audit without infractions.
• Monitor WIP and Module inventories, scans, errors.
• Facilitate age of stock management by monitoring various reports from the appropriate systems and taking appropriate action to minimize exposure to write-offs.
• Review variances with Business Unit Manager and Finance.
• Perform standard tasks necessary to validate and ensure accuracy of material inventories.

Qualifications

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Post Holdings provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, status as a covered veteran and any other category protected under applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws. Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities.