Are you someone who is passionate, motivated, and driven to make a difference? If so, MSA Safety is the perfect fit for your career.

At MSA, SAFETY is who we are AND it is what we do. We are a purpose-driven company committed to deploying innovation and technology to deliver on our Mission to help protect people and assets all around the world. We continue to be relentless in our pursuit of solving our customers greatest problems so they can go home safe each and every day.

Are you in? Read on for more details about this particular role.

• Production Planning: Convert and maintain the supply plan into production plans, where demand flowing downstream and finish dates flowing upstream are accurate and reliable. Perform work center capacity and finite planning to achieve on time delivery to promise and to the market expected lead time.
• Delivery Performance: Set executable production plans. Managing inventory movement functions (delivery to production, receiving, shipping, etc) in timely manner, as defined by the customer. Performing accurate and timely inventory transactions. Maintain master data as standard work and hold that accountability through materials management organization.
• Inventory Control: Lead a departmental function owning the control and movement of inventory, reviewing inventory adjustments, and implementing root cause and correct action systems. Drive ownership and awareness through the plant. Timely and accurate movement of inventory inside the plant. Manage accurate Blocked, Consignment, and QM-Stock inventories. Lead Inactive and Obsolete process, which includes identification through physical disposal.
• Employee Development: Lead each employee through monthly 1:1 sessions, discussing training, personal/professional development planning, career planning, open feedback, open communication, and personal accountability, with the intent to grow each employee to reach their full potential. Use coaching principles to drive change in negative behaviors, and also provide opportunities to bolster employee’s strengths. Foster a growth mindset in the team.
• Continuous Improvement: Continue to find better ways to utilize our ERP system where a customer sales order is placed, and delivery is made to that original promise date, within the MELT target. Leverage automation in making transactions and warehousing to control costs and improve accuracy. Foster a continuous improvement culture in the team where the improvement ideas are derived and executed the team.

Competencies:

• Models Disciplined Execution: Deadline-driven and well-organized achievement of detailed standard work, while modeling grit under pressure and personal accountability. Drives efficiency, productivity, and optimization with self and resource planning of others.
• Displays Innovation & Technology Mindset: Pursues mastery of systems & encourages others to do so while seeking out latest industry trends to help grow the business.
• Makes Data-Driven, Analytical Decisions Analyzes data to see trends, identify opportunities & draw conclusions. Facilitates decision making with data & financial acumen. Creates visualizations to make problems visible & build cross functional consensus.
• Builds Partnerships, Influences Others & Communicates Effectively: Demonstrates emotional intelligence to enable cross functional collaboration & relationship building. Ability to clearly communicate results both verbally & written to propose alternative solutions, win-win scenarios, and gain consensus. Helps others meet deadlines without taking on additional responsibility.
• Challenges the Status Quo to Drive Continuous Improvement: Values new ideas within process improvement & project management while demonstrating effective use of change management principles. Measures processes and links to KPIs to drive behaviors and impact the business
• Prioritizes Personal Development & Builds Organizational Talent: Models a growth mindset, owns personal development, coaches others, pursues industry learning, and demonstrates MSA core values as a model to others. Takes on challenging or unfamiliar assignments
• MSA Core: Customer Focus, Passion for Results, Execution
• MSA Leadership Model

Experience (Required):

For Level I:

• 5 years materials management, procurement/soucring, inventory control experience. or related discipline
• Leadership experience of professional and/or production level associates.
• 3 years ERP experience.
• Low to medium plant/production complexity.
• Inventory responsibility <$20M.
• Budgetary responsibility <$2M

For Level II:

• 7 years materials management, procurement/soucring, inventory control experience. or related discipline
• Leadership experience of professional and/or production level associates.
• 5 years ERP experience.
• Medium to high plant/production complexity.
• Inventory responsibility >$20M.
• Budgetary responsibility >$2M

Experience (Preferred):

• Advanced skills with Excel
• Working experience in SAP:
• Warehouse Management (WMS)
• Production Planning
• Inventory Control
• ATO/KMAT
• MRP
• PowerBI
• ERP system implementation
• Bar coding

Education (Required):

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain / Logistics / Business or Related Field

Education (Preferred):

• Processional Certification such as ISM: CIPS / CPSM and or ASCM: CPIM / CSCP

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