At CF Industries, our mission is to provide clean energy to feed and fuel the world sustainably. Our employees are focused on safe and reliable operations, environmental stewardship, and disciplined capital and corporate management. By joining CF, you will be part of a team that brings their varied experiences, wide-ranging knowledge and diverse talents together to deliver important work and youâll be able to pursue complex, exciting opportunities that help you continue to grow and achieve your potential in different areas. Youâll take pride in working for a company that lives its values and where you can be yourself at work, as part of an authentic team that encourages you to share your views and opinions. Our eight manufacturing complexes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, an unparalleled storage, transportation and distribution network in North America, and logistics capabilities enabling a global reach underpin our strategy to leverage our unique capabilities to accelerate the worldâs transition to clean energy.
Function:
Procurement
Job Summary:
Responsible for the management of the spare parts warehouse and MRO inventory operations including stocking levels and providing security controls of materials held in inventory. Lead the Material Control staff in support of the companyâs strategic direction and assist with building an organization that will expertly execute procurement and material control processes and integrate with other business functions. Support center led strategic sourcing activities to explore benefits of site supplier relationships and initiatives. Provide leadership in identifying and implementing new practices in all material control processes and build supportive internal and external relationships within Procurement and Material control in other facilities functions.
Job Description:
- Support the annual and long-term turnaround and planned maintenance outages outlined in the company strategic and site-specific plans and goals.
- Assist with the creation of a highly collaborative material control culture by providing the appropriate level of support within the organization.
- Provide leadership in developing and maintaining on-going efficiencies of the material control function.
- Ensure monthly progress is being made regarding the established key performance indicators (KPI) metrics.
- Communicate material control related policies, practices, and process improvements to all affected personnel.
- Ensure MRO item activity is documented with warehouse transactions which include creation of issues, receipts, counts and adjustments. Ensure transactions are created for receipt of all materials received at the facility.
- Monitor repairable MRO items to ensure items removed from service, replaced out of repaired materials held in inventory, are returned to the warehouse to be repaired in-house or sent out for repair, and if not repairable are replaced by purchase.
- Create, modify, and suspend MRO items in the inventory item catalog and corresponding item in the purchase item catalog from approved warehouse stock change requests.
- Schedule and monitor cycle count of the materials held in inventory; includes creation of count lists, count reconciliation, investigation of shortages and overages, and creation of count adjustment transactions.
- Manage the warehouse operation in accordance with CF policies and procedures which includes daily supervision of warehouse staff; establishing and adjusting work schedules; training staff; conducting monthly safety meetings, and establishing work priorities.
- Responsible for warehouse housekeeping including the interior and exterior of the building(s) and outside yard area(s). Warehouse MRO items received are identified and placed in their assigned locations, new MRO items are assigned to a unique location, and obsolete MRO items are removed from inventory and disposed of according to CF policies and procedures.
Educational Attributes:Â
- BS/BA supply chain, business administration or related field. Â MBA a plus.
- Five years of related professional experience in supervising people.
- Knowledge of material control practices and internal control objectives.
- Experience with Procurement practices such as bid development, negotiation and contracting a plus.
- Microsoft 365, SAP ECC/S4 Hana and or Ariba/Coupa a plus.
Key Attributes:
- Comfortable working in ambiguity.
- Ability to collaborate across site functions and with suppliers.
- Proactive communication both written and verbal with internal and external stakeholders.
- Influence and persuasion are expected with subordinates.
- Knowledge of the functional discipline  in order to troubleshoot routine challenges or problems. Works within established procedures to understand, analyze and solve routine challenges and problems specific to job and function.
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If you need any assistance seeking a job opportunity at CF Industries, or if you need reasonable accommodation with the application process, please call 847-405-2400 or contact us at talentacquisition@cfindustries.com.