# Manager, Materials Management - Memphis

**Company**: SpaceXAI
**Location**: Southaven, MS
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

SpaceXAI's mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge.

The Materials Management organisation is a crucial part of data centre operations, managing all critical materials to build and operate the world's largest supercomputer clusters.

## Responsibilities:

- Perform administrative duties, including reviewing timecard compliance, scheduling, and mentoring direct reports.

- Support and maintain operational targets and objectives for fulfilment, distribution, and storage centres.

- Develop strategy, business metrics, and goals to guide the organisation.

- Manage a multi-level deep organisation, consisting of both hourly and salary individuals across 4 shift patterns that support 24/7 operations.

- Lead by setting an example, taking feedback from all levels of the organisation, and motivating your organisation to achieve the highest level of results.

- Monitor and improve operations, ensuring a safe work environment – with the goal of zero OSHA recordables annually.

- Ensure business practices guarantee the storing of product in a quality manner, meeting AS9100 and customer flow-down requirements.

- Manage the incoming receipt, acceptance, storage, and issuance of a wide variety of parts and hardware into inventory locations.

- Manage operations that provide industry-leading levels of customer service.

- Lead cost-saving opportunities, identifying internal/external cost reductions and optimisation opportunities.

- Maintain process control and routine counting required to meet both internal and external audit requirements.

- Drive projects and changes needed to ensure the distribution centre can maintain rates year-over-year.

- Monitor shelf-life storage and maintain proper rotation of stock, FIFO.

- Ensure environmental controls are in place, depending on the material requirements of the items being stored.

- Manage and control the storage of non-SpaceX part numbers.

- Actively monitor and grow the workforce, ensuring team members are challenged and performing at the expected standards.

- Adapt to the ever-changing needs of the organisation.

## Basic Qualifications:

- Advanced degree and 3+ years of experience working in one or more of the following: material or production planning, purchasing, distribution, operations or supply chain management, material cost control, master production scheduling.

- Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience working in one or more of the following: material or production planning, purchasing, distribution, operations or supply chain management, material cost control, master production scheduling.

- 9+ years of experience working in one or more of the following: material or production planning, purchasing, distribution, operations or supply chain management, material cost control, master production scheduling.

## Preferred Skills and Experience:

- Organised and self-driven, capable of working independently with little direction.

- APICS certification – CPIM or CSCP desired.

- Excellent communication and team-building skills.

- Ability to work in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

- Experience within an aerospace, aviation, or automotive manufacturing environment.

- Previous experience with capital planning and management.

- Demonstrate innovative and futuristic thinking to drive continuous improvement.

- Computer Skills - Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Project.

## Additional Requirements:

- Lifting up to 50 lbs, standing, climbing, bending, grasping, sitting, pulling, pushing, stooping, stretching, and carrying are generally required to perform the functions of this position.

- Must be able to work all shifts, extended hours and/or weekends as needed.

- Ability to provide 24x7 on-call support in emergency situations.

- This position is based in Memphis, TN and requires being onsite - remote work not considered.

- Position may require domestic travel up to 20% as needed.

## Skills

### Required
- material planning
- purchasing
- distribution
- operations management
- supply chain management
- material cost control
- master production scheduling

### Nice to have
- APICS certification
- Microsoft Office
- team building
- communication
- innovative thinking
- capital planning
- aerospace manufacturing
- automotive manufacturing
- aviation manufacturing

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