The Materials Manager is responsible for leading and coordinating all materials management functions, including Production Planning, Purchasing, Inventory Control, Warehouse Operations, MRO, and Shipping & Receiving. This role ensures the efficient flow of materials throughout the production process to support customer requirements, optimize inventory investment, and achieve operational excellence.

What you will do

- Plan and oversee timely flow of materials through production cycle to minimize customer order past due and ensure on time delivery to customer.

- Manage policies, procedures, and material control systems.

- Offer technical expertise to cross functional project teams.

- Mentor, develop, and review personnel to meet functional objectives.

- Negotiate and administer supplier contracts.

- Develop procurement strategies for Raw Materials and Machined Components to drive costs down.

- Analyze and manage appropriate reports including supplier performance reports, MRP exception reports and open P.O. reports to ensure on-time material availability and proper inventory levels.

- Continual Improvement activities within Material and Production Control areas.

- Maintain and monitor MRP parameters.

- Interface with machine shop, Production, Quality Assurance and Engineering to achieve the smooth flow of materials and services.

We are looking for





- Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Operations Management, or a related field.

- Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in Materials Management, Supply Chain, or Operations within a manufacturing environment.

- Must have experience working in a manufacturing environment with preference on complex High mix/ Low volume components.

- Experience working and managing the purchasing, planning, shipping and warehouse departments.

- Able to generate reports, investigate and resolve problems using problem solving tools and methodologies.

- Demonstrated ability and willingness to use AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, work quality, and to reduce costs. The successful candidate must be able to identify appropriate AI use cases and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs.

- Ability to work under pressure conditions in an environment of changing priorities.

- Excellent understanding and working experience with MRP/ERP systems, Oracle is preferred.

- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

- Excellent communication skills, (written, and verbal).

- Bilingual in Spanish and English.

- Hands-On, Leading the group attitude.

📌 Materials Manager (Tamaulipas)
🏢 Ametek
📍 Tamaulipas