What are the responsibilities and job description for the Components Manager position at Fairfield Processing Corporation?

Job Title:

Components Manager

Classification:

Exempt

Department:

Components

Shift:

3 shifts

Reports To:

Plant Manager

Travel Required:

Job Type: Full-Time, on site, 40 hours per week, overtime may be required when needed. Schedules are subject to change based on the needs of the operation.

Job Location: 6432 Prescott, Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63147

Fairfield Processing Corporation: Founded by Sam Young in 1940 and now led by Jordan Young, this third-generation company still proudly follows the same guiding principles. Fairfield takes great pride in its rich history as a third generation, family-owned and operated American business. In 2025, the company celebrated 85 years of innovative products and brands.

Overview: We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Components Manager to oversee our inbound operations and lead a team of Components associates. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the efficient receipt, inspection, storage, issuance to Manufacturing Work Orders, and returns to storage of Components while maintaining high standards of accuracy, safety, and productivity within the warehouse. This role requires strong leadership skills, attention to detail, delegation in a multi-shift environment, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Shift Schedule (3 shift operation):

Shift 1: Day Shift (8 hours) - Monday to Friday: 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Shift 2: Evening Shift (8 hours) - Monday to Friday: 3:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Shift 3: Night Shift (8 hours) - Sunday to Thursday: 11:00 PM to 7:00 AM

Shift Schedule (2 shift operation):

Shift 1: Day Shift (8 hours) - Monday to Friday: 6:00 AM to 2:30 PM

Shift 2: Evening Shift (8 hours) - Monday to Friday: 3:00 PM to 11:30 PM

Essential duties:

Lead team flow management

Team Leadership: Lead, mentor and hold accountable shift supervisors and leads. Provide guidance, training, and support to Components team associates in all shifts, ensuring that team members understand their roles and responsibilities and adhere to all established procedures, using designated systems. The following skillsets are part of the team, and mobilized through each shift for various tasks:

Forklift operator

Materials handler

Cycle counter

Receiving Operations: Accountability for the receiving process for all incoming shipments of Components (both Contract and Direct), including unloading trucks, verifying contents against shipping documents, and inspecting goods for damage or discrepancies, recording packing records and lot records in the Enterprise resource Planning (ERP) and Warehouse Management System (WMS).

Quality Control: Implement quality control procedures with the Quality Team to ensure that all received goods meet established standards and specifications.

Inventory Management: Accountability for the accurate recording and labeling of received items, including assigning locations within the warehouse, and updating inventory systems.

Materials issuance to production team: accountable for the Components team use of the company’s ERP and WMS systems to issue work order materials for all production requirement of components: including picking in racks, verifying contents against WO documents, and inspecting goods for lot-control discrepancies. This includes the management and coordination across shifts of two teams: product flows from rack-to-staging bin (forklift driver activity), and staging bin to production workstation (materials handler activity). As well, at the end of the production shift, it includes the return to racks of unused materials, and collaboration with the Quality team for transfer to Quarantine of defective components.

Cycle counts: Collaborate with the Quality and IT teams to ensure that only physical Components bins are active in the ERP and WMS. Count bins designated by the Quality team, daily, working with Quality to ensure that no Components bin remains uncounted within each 30 days rotation.

Compliance: Enforce safety protocols and best practices to maintain a safe working environment for all warehouse staff, including proper equipment usage, lifting techniques, and hazardous material handling. Ensure compliance with all relevant regulations, policies, and procedures governing operations, including customs regulations, management procedures, quality standards, safety guidelines, and company policies.

Accuracy, transparency and analytics

Communication: Maintain open lines of communication with other warehouse departments, as well as with suppliers and transportation carriers, to coordinate receiving activities and help provide information to resolve any issues or delays.

Documentation and Reporting:

WMS: Ensure accurate record-keeping of all team activities in the WMS and other apps and systems. Maintain receiving logs, audit inventory records, maintain components issuance logs. Provide daily End of Shift reports to the plant and corporate teams, and ad hoc reports as needed.

Time and attendance: Manage the time and attendance of staff, including presence, overtime, task allocation. Monitor the dashboards provided for KPI (see below) and suggest additions and improvements to dashboards.

Performance improvement:

Existing KPI: Monitor all department KPIs for team performance, productivity, and accuracy metrics, and take actions as needed to address improve performance, meet and exceed goals.

Search for maximum unit efficiency: propose and implement solutions to minimize unit labor and other operational costs. Analyze WMS, ERP and ADP datasets to find best practices and suggest improvements.

Shape future performance and operational flexibility

Evaluate OKR and KPI: evaluate OKR and KPI for relevance and calculation method accuracy. Propose improvements where necessary for adoption in the yearly operational performance cycles.

Improve processes: Identify opportunities for process optimization and efficiency gains within the Components team and work area. Consult with adjacent teams in the workflow to understand their pain points and help resolve them. Collaborate with management to implement improvements.

Co-define collaboration methods to collaborate and integrate skillset with the Distribution team to occasionally flex labor pool to adapt to requirements of the activity.

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, logistics, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Proven experience in warehouse or plant operations, with at least 2-3 years in a leadership or supervisory role.

Strong knowledge of warehouse operations, including receiving procedures, inventory management, pick tasks/delivery and quality control practices.

Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire team members to achieve high performance standards.

Detail-oriented with strong organizational and problem-solving abilities.

Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and handle multiple priorities simultaneously.

Proficiency in using warehouse management systems (WMS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and other inventory tracking software.

Familiarity with safety regulations and best practices in a warehouse environment.

Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders at all levels.

Forklift certification and experience operating material handling equipment preferred.

Wage: DOE

Benefits of the position:

Medical

Vision

Dental

401 (k)

9 paid holidays and much more

APPENDIX

2025 Objectives and Key Results assessment baseline

Objective: run a clean warehouse floorplan

Design, execute and control floor mapping and marking for all movable equipment, and materials under Reception team control

Key result 1: expected March 31, 2025: demonstrated full completion of mapping and markings, verifiable with QA reports

Key result 2: weekly QA audits find 100% matching of mappings & markings in all areas

Key result 3: any change decided in floor organization is accurately transcribed to the mappings and markings within 1 business day of decision (IT support dependency for materials: maps, NS bin setup, QR labels)

Objective: Inventory accuracy

Note: this is NS ERP based: over period, inventory adjustments Quantity as % of Item Receipt Quantity. In Eaches not $ because Contract is $0 value.

Key result 1: to May 31, 2025: Reduce IA absolute Qty by 50%

Key result 2: Cycle count objective: bin qty accuracy 95%

Key result 3: IAs in $ value < 1% of Received $ values

Evaluation frequency: Weekly

Objective: right-size staff

Overhead Labor in the Components team is right-sized at all times (receivers, drivers, handlers, conveyor attendant):

Key result 1 to March 31, 2025: Right size to activity always

Key result 2: improve productivity measured as CUFT moved per staff quantity in the department >10%

Evaluation frequency: Quarterly

Objective: The use of Over Time (OT) is limited, it is used for special projects only

Key result 1: OT hours Qty < 5% of total reported Hours

Key result 2: for any individual, OT hours are never > 20 over a 7-day period (total worked never >60 hours worked per 7 day period)

Key result 3: never in breach of objective 2 on any week through the year

Evaluation frequency: Weekly

Objective: implement 5S

Objective: 5S is in place and mature by March 31, 2025

Key Result: 5S Board is empty by end of each week, starting April 2025

Objective: Production Staging

Objective: All production staging is done by prior shift for immediate next shift

Key result 1: timestamps on Production staging vs WO shift #

Key result 2: 100% of components returns from production are bin-putaway to racks physically and in RFS within the following shift.

Objective: Cycle counts

Objective: cycle count the warehouse each 22 business days or less, starting Feb 3, 2025

Key result 1: No less than 240 rack bins counted each working day

Key result 2: Receiving (RCVGxx), Production Staging (PSBxxx) bins counted daily

Objective: Materials Handlers

Materials handlers issue to Production Staging bins the quantity that is needed, not more or less, assuming 0 defect in components i.e no overages exceptions issued at first.

Key result 1: Production staging quantity matches WO Quantity in analysis of historical movements vs WO component quantity

Key result 2: Wait time on exceptions: <10 minutes

Key result 3: Unused component returns are 100% physically and RFS handled at the end of each shift

Objective: WO Completion scanning (conveyor scan) is accurate and timely

Key result 1: accidental scrap record occurrence <0.05% of scans

Key result 2: no ss/pallet is missed

Key result 3: no WO Completions with backflush are recorded outside the conveyor

Objective: Implement the plant skillset matrix project

Coordinating with HR team, help recruit and train the skeleton staff for flex capacity to optimize plant profitability.

Key result 1: skeleton crew is always staffed, trained to current procedures, policies and methods

Key result 2: skeleton crew accept and are trained on flex potential that includes moving into (decreasing order of implementation) other shifts, other roles within the team, and work outside the team, with good skeleton crew retention over time.

Key result 3: shifting gears 1,2,3 and 3,2,1 is achieved consistently and without compromise to WO productivity or staff overtime objective, with 5 business days’ notice.

Fairfield Processing Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by law. EEO is the Law.

If you are an individual with a disability and need reasonable accommodation in the application or hiring process, please contact Human Resources at (314) 382-2797.

Salary : $65,000 - $75,000

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