Materials Management Supervisor

This is the second of two levels in the Materials Management series. Incumbents coordinate the receipt, storage, tracking and distribution of materials and supervise lower-level materials management employees. Responsibilities may include ordering supplies; reviewing and correcting material listings; planning and coordinating inventory counts; and prioritizing and coordinating inventory management tasks.

Essential Functions:

• Supervises staff to include prioritizing and assigning work; conducting performance evaluations; training staff; ensuring that employees follow policies and procedures; maintaining a healthy and safe working environment; and making hiring, termination, and disciplinary recommendations.

• Monitors inventory and orders supplies, as necessary.

• Inspects inventory for quantity counts and damage; reconciles materials to packing lists; contacts vendors and corrects orders and listings, as necessary.

• Prioritizes and sorts mail that comes in and sorts invoices per PO or sends it to procurement daily.

• Prepares and maintains a variety of operational records and reports; updates and maintains applicable databases.

• Performs other duties of a similar nature or level.

• Performs other related work as required.

• Associate's degree in inventory management or a related field.
• Two (2) years inventory control, warehouse, or materials management experience.
• Or, an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the job's essential duties.

• A valid driver's license.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Knowledge of:

• Supervisory principles.

• Customer service principles.

• Materials management procedures.

• Computers and related software applications.

• Operational database management.

• Recordkeeping principles.

• Computers and related software applications.

• Inventory management principles.

Skill in:

• Monitoring and evaluating employees.

• Prioritizing and assigning work.

• Using a computer and related software applications.

• Applying customer service principles.

• Maintaining records and reports.

• Using a computer and related software applications.

• Monitoring and maintaining inventory.

• Communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with subordinates, coworkers, supervisors, the public, etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to give and receive work direction.

Physical Requirements:

The work is light work which requires exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently to or constantly to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.

• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

• Handling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.

• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination sound.

• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. It occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.

• Mental Acuity: Making rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.

• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.

• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force to thrust forward, downward, or outward.

• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.

• Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.

• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.

• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. It occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.

• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

• Visual ability 1: sufficient to perform an activity like preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.

• Visual ability 2: sufficient to include color, depth perception, and field vision.

• Visual ability 3: sufficient to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures.

• Visual ability 4: sufficient to operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment, both day and night.

• Visual ability 5: sufficient to perform an activity such as: visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, operation of machines; using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication parts at distances close to the eyes.

• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or move from one work site to another.