• Supply Chain Manager/Materials Manager

    Jensen Precast (Lancaster, CA)


    Salary Range **$92,000.00 - $125,000.00 Salary**

    Description

    WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

     

    Jensen Infrastructure is hiring a **Supply Chain Manager** to lead purchasing, inventory control, and production planning across multiple branches. In this role, you’ll be driving operational efficiency, improving production scheduling, and strengthening supply chain execution in a complex manufacturing environment.

     

    You’ll be leading a multi-site supply chain team, managing high-mix production scheduling, and ensuring purchasing and inventory activities are executed accurately and on time. This role is ideal for a hands-on supply chain leader who thrives in environments where planning accuracy, system discipline, and cross-functional collaboration directly impact performance.

     

    A highlight of your day-to-day will include:

    Production Control & Planning

    + Leading and improving production scheduling in a high mix manufacturing environment, ensuring schedules are accurate, achievable, and planned ahead

    + Training plant teams on best practices for order entry, work orders, scheduling, and system reporting

    + Establishing feedback loops and performing audits to validate bills of materials, routings, and planning accuracy

    Purchasing

    + Overseeing purchasing activities across all branches to ensure timely, accurate transactions

    + Standardizing purchasing processes and driving cost savings through volume consolidation and supplier negotiations

    + Monitoring raw material cost variances and maintaining order points and economic order quantities within the ERP system

    Inventory Control

    + Improving inventory turnover while reducing excess, obsolete, and aging inventory and WIP

    + Implementing cycle counting and equipping branch teams with reporting tools to manage inventory effectively

    + Optimizing system parameters to support make/buy decisions and material planning

    MRO & Data Standardization

    + Assessing and improving MRO systems and processes, including MP2

    + Leading part number standardization efforts and cleaning up ERP data using rename and merge tools

    WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

    Required

    + Proven experience in production scheduling within a high-mix manufacturing environment

    + Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or a related discipline _(APICS or similar supply chain certification acceptable in place of degree)_

    + Experience leading a supply chain, planning, or materials team

    + Hands-on purchasing experience in a manufacturing or industrial setting

    + Strong working knowledge of ERP-based planning and MRP systems

    + Ability to manage complex supplier relationships while maintaining strong partnerships

    + Strong written, verbal, organizational, and program management skills

    Preferred

    + Advanced ERP planning experience (IFS strongly preferred; SAP, Oracle, or similar accepted)

    + MBA (preferred, not required)

    + Experience modernizing supply chain, inventory, or MRO processes

    ALL ABOUT JENSEN INFRASTRUCTURE

    Like you, our founder, Don Jensen was looking for a way to support his family, so he started his company in 1968. Since its founding, we’ve supported communities across Nevada, California, Arizona, Washington, Missouri and Hawaii.

     

    Jensen likely impacts your daily life. We build culverts to drain water from your neighborhoods, underground utility boxes to hold cables, and manholes that allow workers access to the sewers deep below the roads we drive on. And that’s just a small sample of what we do at Jensen every day.

     

    When you work at one of Jensen’s many locations, you’ll enjoy the close relationships and camaraderie of a small company while being part of a larger, well-established, and growing organization.

     

    We are committed to ensuring employment practices that promote equal opportunity. Please let us know if you require any reasonable accommodations during your interview.

     

    We consider a wide variety of factors in making compensation decisions, including job-related knowledge, skill set, experience, education and training, certifications, and other relevant business and organizational factors.

     

    **Additional Compensation and Benefits:** Jensen Infrastructure offers competitive benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, PTO, and a 401(k). The successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Jensen’s annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing such programs. Incentive awards will depend on individual and company performance.