Materials Coordinator

Leaf River Cellulose in New Augusta, Mississippi, has an exciting opportunity for a Materials Coordinator. This is a pivotal role in ensuring the seamless flow of materials, equipment, and services required for the efficient operation of the mill. This position requires a proactive individual with exceptional organizational and communication skills, who can work collaboratively with various teams.

Our Team

The Leaf River Cellulose Mill is a large paper plant, north of New Augusta, Mississippi. They produce filter grade pulp and market pulp, which is used in the manufacturing of coffee filters, vacuum cleaner bags, automotive filters, printing paper, tissue paper, and coated paper.

What You Will Do

• Coordinate and secure the material and specialty resource requirements to fulfill daily, weekly, and monthly work schedules.
• Ensure timely availability of parts, materials, specialty tools, equipment, and services to meet scheduled work execution.
• Provide expediting assistance to Area Maintenance Leaders, planners, crew leaders, maintenance coordinators, and purchasing for materials, tools, and special services.
• Monitor backlog schedules to ensure all materials are on site by the projected scheduled work date, at least two weeks in advance.
• Work with the stores department to pull, kit, and stage materials according to work order tasks/jobs.
• Provide weekly notifications of staged materials to the Operations Maintenance Group (OMG) and scheduler.
• Work with the outage procurement group to ensure materials are on order and aligned with outage strategy and dates.
• Attend weekly planning meetings to ensure effective communication and alignment of materials coordination with the maintenance and operations teams.
• Order chemicals for operations and collaborate with the operations team mill-wide to procure chemicals needed to support operating strategies.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience with supply chain management, materials planning, procurement, or inventory control.
• Experience identifying problems and implementing solutions.
• Experience in collaborating with external vendors and contractors.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Certification in materials or project management
• Materials management software experience
• Experience with procurement processes, including ordering materials and tracking expected due dates.

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Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Equal Opportunities

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