Lead – Material Stores

Position Summary:

The Lead – Material Stores will be responsible for managing day-to-day material stores and warehouse operations, ensuring accurate receipt, storage, preservation, issue, and control of materials. The role will maintain inventory accuracy, ensure material availability to internal users, optimize storage and material movement, and ensure compliance with established procedures, safety standards, and inventory controls.

Work You’ll Do:

Job Description

Primary Objective

·   Lead daily material stores and warehouse operations, including material receipt, inspection coordination, put-away, storage, preservation, and issue.

·   Ensure materials are received against purchase orders and relevant documents, and coordinate with Purchase and Quality for discrepancies or inspection requirements.

·   Maintain accurate inventory records and ensure timely system transactions for receipts, transfers, issues, and returns.

·   Monitor stock levels, identify shortages, excess, non-moving, and obsolete inventory, and initiate appropriate actions.

·   Conduct periodic cycle counts and physical stock verification; investigate and resolve inventory variances.

·   Ensure proper identification, labeling, segregation, and storage of materials to prevent damage, loss, or mix-ups.

·   Coordinate with Production, Planning, Purchase, Quality, and other departments to ensure timely material availability.

·   Manage material issuing activities against authorized requests and maintain proper documentation and traceability.

·   Ensure orderly warehouse layout, space utilization, housekeeping, and adherence to safety requirements.

·   Monitor stores performance and prepare periodic reports on inventory, stock accuracy, shortages, and other key activities.

·   Guide stores personnel, allocate daily work, and ensure adherence to standard operating procedures.

Specific Objective

·   Maintain inventory accuracy and ensure timely system updates for all material movements.

·   Ensure uninterrupted material availability to support production and business requirements.

·   Minimize inventory discrepancies, material damage, and losses through effective controls.

·   Improve warehouse utilization, material traceability, housekeeping, and safety.

·   Ensure timely completion of cycle counts, physical verification, and inventory reporting.

Basic Qualifications:

·   Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, or a related discipline.

·   Relevant experience in stores, warehouse, or inventory management, preferably in a manufacturing environment.

·   Knowledge of material receipt, storage, preservation, issuing, stock control, and physical verification.

·   Proficiency in MS Office; working knowledge of ERP inventory / stores modules in SAP

·   Good organizational, communication, coordination, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

·   Experience managing a stores / warehouse team in a manufacturing or engineering organization.

·   Knowledge of inventory control methods, cycle counting, FIFO / FEFO where applicable, and material traceability.

·   Experience with ERP-based inventory transactions and reporting.

·   Understanding of warehouse safety, 5S, and material handling practices.

·   Ability to analyze inventory data and drive process improvements.

Who we are: 

Mold-Masters (www.moldmasters.com) is a leading global supplier of hot runners, controllers, auxiliary injection and co-injection systems. We design, manufacture, distribute, sell and service highly engineered and customized plastic processing equipment that caters to every market. Mold-Masters is a business unit of Hillenbrand.

Hillenbrand (www.hillenbrand.com) is a global industrial company that provides highly engineered, mission-critical processing equipment and solutions to customers in over 100 countries around the world. Our portfolio is composed of leading industrial brands that serve large, attractive end markets, including durable plastics, food, and recycling. Guided by our Purpose — Shape What Matters For Tomorrow™ — we pursue excellence, collaboration, and innovation to consistently shape solutions that best serve our associates, customers, communities, and other stakeholders.

EEO: The policy of Hillenbrand Inc. is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.  Additionally, Hillenbrand Inc. and our operating companies are committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities.  If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at [email protected] .  In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.  At Hillenbrand, everyone is welcome to apply and "Shape What Matters for Tomorrow".