Production Logistics and Data Manager (12 month term) in Surrey, British Columbia

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill’s global team of 160,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s animal nutrition and health business, where we improve lives through better nutrition. Our team researches, innovates and creates solutions that deliver healthy results for our customers.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Production Logistics and Data Manager (12 month term), will support maintenance work by ensuring availability of necessary spare parts for work execution to increase plant productivity and maximize reliability performance. In this role, all opportunities to improve processes, people knowledge, engagement and costs will be captured while complying with environmental health and safety and food safety quality and regulatory requirements.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure that inventory stock and safety stock values are accurate and systematically identify obsolete, potential consignment and overstock items.

• Schedule relevant inspection of goods to ensure compliance to technical specification and quality.

• Collect data from operations departement and making reports based on management needs.

• Define the most appropriate inventory management process based on the demand for the asset or spare part to minimize working capital.

• Understand, lead and monitor leading storage practices for parts, collaborating with suppliers to align with these leading practices to ensure inventory is stored to allow placement directly from inventory to functioning in the plant.

• Make purchase requests of stock items to maintain the determined inventory levels, partnering with local suppliers for vendor-controlled inventory.

• Initiate and track the procurement of stock parts required in standard job plans to ensure all items are available to enable work to be scheduled.

• Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Diploma/Certificate or bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience

• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Excel, spreadsheet, data base

• Inventory management experience

• Warehouse experience

• Must be legally entitled to work for Cargill in Canada

Preferred Qualifications

• Basic knowledge of maintenance and inventory management processes

• Operational data reporting experience

• Production environment experience

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Cargill is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing accommodation to our job applicants with disabilities.