Materials Follow-Up Coordinator
Who We Are:
Challenge’s mission is to manufacture with operational excellence by empowering our employee-owners. As a leading tier 1 supplier of complex metal assemblies for the global automotive industry, we drive innovative solutions for future mobility. We believe the best ideas come from individual unique perspectives. These ideas combined with the teamwork of industry leaders allow us to accomplish any challenge. Our team members take pride in the work we do and embody our core values of safety, ownership, and teamwork every day; they are the true driving force in our operations.
Challenge is proud to be one of the largest employee-owned automotive companies in North America. One of the many benefits of joining the Challenge team is the ESOP program. This program allows Challenge to give shares of the Company to all employee-owners annually. These shares are an additional retirement benefit that will continue to grow during your time at Challenge. Being part of an ESOP means our employee-owners share in Challenge’s success!
Together we own Safety! Challenge is #QualityDriven and #PeoplePowered!
Who We Want:
The primary responsibility of the Material Follow-Up Coordinator is to data mine, verify, and escalate to ensure the plant has the necessary inventory levels to support production plans to meet safety stock quantities and ultimately customer demand. They will have responsibility to assist in supporting the Materials Manager to achieve departmental objectives and customer satisfaction through ensuring delivery and production plans are put in place that will minimize if not eliminate production disruptions. Additionally, the Material Follow-up coordinator will have responsibility to monitor outside processes and some tier 2 suppliers to ensure on-time delivery to Challenge.
What You'll Do:
- Help Plan and manage results of Annual Physical Inventories.
- Track programs launch and sunset activities as well as mass production inventory levels within the plant.
- Review and Escalate BOM issues within plan.
- Manage Supply Chain for all plant part supply and escalate past due min/max issues to corporate MRP personnel if issues cannot be resolved internally.
- Participate in launch meetings to plan out activities in future time periods and audit for BOM accuracy and forecasting parameters.
- Drive team for thorough analysis of material adjustments and ensure detailed investigation and comprehensive corrective actions are put in place.
- Driving continuous improvements, problem solving activities around inventory and supply chain KPI’s.
- Review demand and supply to understand bottleneck and propose alternative capacity or areas needing capacity improvement to meet demand.
- Participate in business planning meetings to plan out activities in future time periods.
- Promote transparent communications between supplier and customer regarding manufacturing limitations and/or opportunities.
- Performing other duties as necessary in support of business objectives
When and Where:
This will be a A Shift / 7am - 3:30pm M-F position located at our Plant in Northlake, TX.
Occasionally, this may require you to arrive early, stay late, or work on weekends, outside of our regular hours, to ensure we successfully meet customer needs, deadlines, or urgent requests.
What You Need to Have:
- High School Diploma required.
- Minimum of three years’ experience in a Materials Planner, Materials Scheduler or closely related role required.
- Experience with Plex Systems ERP strongly preferred.
- Previous experience in automotive industry preferred.
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred (major or concentration in Supply Chain Management/Logistics is a strong plus).
What We Offer:
We’re excited to offer a range of awesome benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a Health Savings Account with annual employer contributions, Flexible Spending Accounts, company-paid Short-Term Disability and Basic Life Insurance, Voluntary Life and Long-Term Disability options, an Employer 401k Match, ESOP shares, tuition reimbursement, a Referral Bonus Program, Challenge Incentive Program, and paid time off.
Please note, while these benefits are part of what we offer, they may not all apply to this specific role. The details shared in this job description are intended to give you a general idea, but duties and responsibilities may evolve over time, with or without notice. And of course, we’re happy to provide reasonable accommodations to help individuals with disabilities succeed in their role.
