1. Scope of Position: Reporting to the General Manager, the Materials Manager provides leadership for materials planning, inventory control, warehousing, and material flow activities across MAMT's Composites, Fabrication, and Multimatic Woodbine Tool operations. The role is accountable for material availability, inventory accuracy, traceability, working capital management, and continuous improvement of supply chain processes in a high-mix, low-volume manufacturing environment. 2. Key Responsibilities Lead materials planning, stores teams across MAMT locations. Support customer program launches and engineering changes by ensuring material readiness, inventory strategies, and supplier capacity planning. Ensure material availability for production, prototypes, tooling projects, and customer schedules. Own SAP materials processes, including MRP, master data, BOMs, inventory transactions, and production supply. Develop and execute strategies to improve inventory turns, reduce excess and obsolete inventory, and optimize working capital while maintaining customer service levels. Manage storage, kitting, internal movement, outside processing, and inter-site transfers Maintain inventory accuracy through cycle counts, physical inventories, transaction controls, and corrective actions. Monitor capacity constraints, lead-time risk, shortages, premium freight, and inventory exposure; lead corrective and recovery actions with suppliers and internal stakeholders. Identify and mitigate supply chain risks related to supplier capacity, transportation disruptions, material shortages, business continuity, and geopolitical factors. Provide leadership, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and employee development for materials, and stores personnel. Establish performance objectives and ensure training and competency development plans are maintained for all direct reports. Improve inventory, warehouse layout, replenishment, packaging, and material flow using Lean and 5S principles. Coordinate transportation, customs documentation, and cross-border shipments. Support sourcing, engineering changes, supplier development, program launches, and production readiness. Report KPIs for material availability, inventory accuracy, supplier delivery, premium freight, inventory turns and working capital. Ensure compliance with health and safety, environmental, quality-system, customer, and company requirements. undefined Product-Line-Specific RequirementsComposites: Control prepreg, resins, adhesives, cores, inserts, and consumables using batch traceability, shelf-life, out-time, temperature, and first-expiry-first-out controls. Fabrication: Manage sheet, tube, plate, hardware, weldments, and outside processes with effective grade, heat or lot identification and WIP control. MWT: Support milestone-driven die and tooling projects, including steel, castings, standard components, outsourced machining, heat treatment, project BOMs, WIP, and finished-tool shipments. Integrated Operations: Coordinate intercompany tooling and component flows among Composites, Fabrication, and MWT. Key Performance Indicators On-Time Delivery Inventory Accuracy Inventory Turns Working Capital Premium Freight Cost Supplier On-Time Delivery Material Shortages Schedule Adherence Warehouse Safety Performance Physical Inventory Accuracy Customer Delivery Ratings 3. Key Relationships: General Manager, Controller and Department Managers Logistics team, Program Managers and Supervisors 4. Qualifications: Degree or diploma in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business, Engineering, or a related field. Minimum seven years of progressive materials, supply chain, logistics, or manufacturing operations experience, including leadership responsibility in a multi-site manufacturing environment Experience in high-mix, low-volume manufacturing; composites, fabrication, stamping, tool-and-die, or project manufacturing experience is preferred. Strong SAP MM/PP, MRP, inventory control, BOM, production-order, logistics, and warehouse-management knowledge; SAP S/4HANA experience is an asset. Working knowledge of IATF 16949 or ISO 9001, ISO 14001, traceability, customs, and trade compliance. Strong leadership, analytical, financial, negotiation, communication, and problem-solving skills. Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft 365; Power BI experience is an asset. Preferred certifications: ASCM/APICS CPIM or CSCP, Supply Chain Management Professional (SCMP), or an equivalent recognized supply chain credential. Lean Six Sigma certification is an asset. Ability to work across multiple facilities and support both production and milestone-driven tooling operations. 5. Hours of Work: · 8:00 am to 4:30 pm Monday to Friday· Occasional Flexibility needed 6. Supervisory Responsibilities: None This job posting is for an existing vacancy. The total cash compensation range for this position is expected to be: $84,000.00 - $134,000.00 To learn more about Multimatic, check out our youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psOjJIh3t90 If you are interested in this position, apply by sending us your cover letter and resume. We thank all interested candidates in advance; however, only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted. As part of our commitment to ensuring our employment practices are fair, accessible, and inclusive of persons with disabilities, recruitment-related accommodations for disabilities, are available upon request throughout the recruitment and assessment process for applicants with disabilities. Multimatic is a global enterprise supplying engineered components, systems and services to the automotive industry. The company's success has been fueled by its ability to attract and motivate a team of highly skilled and passionate individuals who want to make a difference. With expanding facilities around the world, including in Canada, the US, the UK, Germany, Mexico, Japan and China, there is always room in Multimatic's growing team for people who share a dedication to technical excellence, quality and enthusiasm.

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