Materials Manager

About Sun Country Airlines

We're not your average airline. We're agile, resilient, and full of unique opportunity. Here, you can grow as part of an ambitious team that safely and collectively supports each other, our travelers, and our community. Together, we're making travel more attainable.

With more than 40 years of Minnesota roots, we're a unique hybrid low-cost carrier offering diverse services including scheduled flights to destinations across the U.S., Canada, Central America, and the Caribbean, as well as charter and cargo operations around the world. At Sun Country, you'll be part of a growing airline and an enthusiastic team focused on connecting our community with their favorite people and places.

The Materials Manager enjoys these benefits and more:

• Comprehensive benefit package including dental and vision
• PPO and high deductible health plans
• Health savings account and Flexible Spending Account
• Starting day one free standby and discounted travel privileges for employees, family, & friends
• 401(k) match
• Paid Time Off
• Paid holidays
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program including counseling for employees and their family
• Fitness incentive and Stop Smoking Support

Materials Manager Overview:

The Materials Manager directs the Supervisor of Materials, Supervisor of Tooling, and all Material Coordinators while overseeing end to end materials, inventory, and stockroom operations. The role ensures inventory accuracy and availability, manages shortages, overstock, loans, exchanges, and consignment activity, and maintains all inventory locations and shelf life control programs. It provides technical oversight for outstation support, fly away kits, COMAT, and off site storage, ensuring compliance with hazardous materials regulations and internal SOPs. The position also governs shipping, receiving, issuing, and logistics workflows to maintain safe, efficient, and compliant material movement across the network.

Essential Roles and Responsibilities:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Lead and support Material Coordinators. Develop and track all training requirements and curriculum, as well as preform all administrative functions
• Communicate inventory shortages and overstock to Manager Purchasing/Repairs and Sr. Inventory Control Analyst to ensure inventory levels are appropriately set utilizing Min/Max system
• Monitor all loans and exchanges to ensure they are processed and returned expeditiously, while ensuring cores and return paperwork meet contract return requirements
• Administration of consignment inventory part sales
• Responsible for setup, changing, and closure of inventory locations in Sun Country network
• Issue and monitor shelf-life procedures to ensure they are being accomplished in all Sun Country Airlines' identified inventory locations
• Manage administration and tracking of material and tooling allocated to outstations, fly-away kits, COMAT, consignment inventory, and off-site storage facilities
• Maintain and track inventory accuracy utilizing cycle count process
• Maintain record of Hazardous Materials with relation to shipping, maintaining SDS files, accumulation of waste, and disposal in accordance with all local, state and Sun Country policy.
• Develop, Monitor and Enforce department SOP procedures to ensure adherence to all Sun Country Airlines' material guidelines and practices
• Management of stockroom functions including, but not limited to, shipping, receiving, binning, issuing, counting, tracking, logistics, housekeeping, and security for all material and tools controlled by the Materials Department
• Conduct all tasks in a safe and efficient manner complying with all local, state, and federal safety and health regulatory requirements, programmatic standards, and with any internal policies and procedures identified by Sun Country Airlines
• Provide support to Materials stockroom, as required
• Perform other functions as assigned by the Director Materials
• Exercise authority as delegated by the Director Materials

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Inventory, Warehouse and Materials Management
• Proven leadership skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to perform independently and deliver results to the requisite quality and timeline metrics
• Must be able to obtain MSP SIDA badge

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous aviation experience
• Associates or bachelor's degree in aviation management

Compensation:

$70,000.00-90,000.00. This is the base compensation hiring range for this role.

Classification:

Full-time, exempt

Working Location:

This position is open in Minneapolis, MN.

Supervisory Responsibility:

None

Work environment:

This job primarily operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands or finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

AAP/EEO Statement:

It is the policy of Sun Country Airlines to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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