Job Description

Description

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Materials Manager to direct the activities associated with the management of inventory to maintain optimal supply, including production scheduling, purchasing, inventory control and accuracy, and transactional reporting.

Pay range in BRANCH, CA Region: 

• Base salary 
• Short-Term, annual incentive program (TBD) 

Reporting to our General Manager, you’ll Interface with manufacturing, purchasing, and sales. 

A Highlight of Your Day-to-Day Will Include:

• Leading, coaching, and motivating the inventory/materials team while fostering a positive, collaborative team culture.
• Managing inventory replenishment activities with precision, using tools such as Material Resource Planning (MRP), Kanban, Order Point, or other methods agreed upon by leadership.
• Developing, facilitating and maintaining a perpetual production schedule to balance optimal inventory levels with customer demand and make-to-order requirements.
• Ensuring accurate execution of inventory transaction records, including raw material and labor issues, purchase order receipts, shop order receipts, and finished goods movements and shipments.
• Creating, documenting, and delivering training on transactional processes; conducting regular audits to ensure compliance and leading continuous improvement initiatives.
• Monitoring material variances to identify waste or inefficiencies, investigating root causes, recommending actionable solutions, and implementing corrective measures.
• Maintaining data integrity for all inventory-related elements, including parts, Bill of Material (BOMs), standard costs, and on-hand stock levels.
• Leading formal audits of inventory data, production planning information, BOMs, and costing structures to ensure ongoing accuracy, compliance, and operational efficiency.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

You’re enthusiastic and motivated in a fast-paced environment. You possess demonstrated experience in a manufacturing or building materials environment with progressively more responsible supervisory and management experience (minimum of 5 years). You don’t take shortcuts. You’re safety conscious not just for yourself, but for your team.   

Other desired skills, education, and experience include:

• APICS CPIM certification (or expected within 18 months of starting).
• Ability to communicate both in written and verbal formats.
• Experience working with an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word Processor).
• Previous experience in cost accounting helpful.

ALL ABOUT JENSEN INFRASTRUCTURE

Like you, our founder, Don Jensen was looking for a way to support his family, so he started his Company in 1968. Since its founding, we’ve supported communities across Nevada, California, Arizona, Washington, and Hawaii.

Jensen Infrastructure likely impacts your daily life. We build culverts to drain water from your neighborhoods, underground utility boxes to hold cables, and manholes to allow workers access to the sewers deep below the roads we drive on. And that’s just a small sample of what we do at Jensen daily.

When you work at one of Jensen’s many locations, you will enjoy the close relationships and camaraderie of a small company while being part of a larger, well-established, growing company.

We are committed to ensuring employment practices that promote equal opportunities. Please let us know if you require any reasonable accommodations during your interview.

Salary Range: We consider a wide variety of factors in making compensation decisions, including job-related knowledge; skillset; experience, education and training; certifications; and other relevant business and organizational factors.

Additional Compensation and Benefits: Jensen Infrastructure offers competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, PTO, and 401k. The role may also be eligible to participate in the Jensen Infrastructure Short-Term, annual incentive program. The incentive plan is subject to the rules governing such programs. (Incentive awards, if any, will depend on a range of factors, including, without limitation, individual and company performance.)

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