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About this Materials Team Lead - 1st Shift - $32.10/hr role at Stryker

Stryker · Onsite · Arlington, Tennessee
Work Flexibility: Onsite

Schedule: Monday – Friday 6:00am - 2:30pm, OT as needed

What you will do:

In this role, you will support the Materials Manager in coordinating daily material operations on the production floor, ensuring accurate material flow, inventory integrity, and timely delivery of components to support production schedules and operational needs. This role focuses on maintaining efficient material movement, supporting quality standards, and enabling production teams to meet safety, delivery, and cost objectives.

  • Coordinate material availability, staging, and delivery to support uninterrupted production and minimize production downtime.
  • Promote inventory accuracy by supporting material movements, ERP transactions, and work order processes (backflushing, transfers, scrap, and completions).
  • Assist in identifying and resolving inventory discrepancies through root cause analysis while supporting cycle counts, physical inventories, and audit activities.
  • Leverage material usage trends and production demand insights to help optimize stocking strategies and align inventory levels with production plans.
  • Reinforce proper material handling, storage practices, FIFO practices, and compliance with GMP, GDP, and traceability requirements.
  • Serve as a cross-functional point of coordination between materials, production, planning, warehouse, and quality teams to ensure alignment and material readiness.
  • Support the training and development of the Materials team, fostering accountability, accuracy, and continuous improvement.
  • Contribute to process improvement and Lean initiatives to enhance material flow, reduce inventory levels, improve space utilization, and enhance line-side efficiency.


 

What you need:

Required Qualifications:

  • High School Diploma or GED
  • Minimum of five (5) years relevant work experience, which can include manufacturing, distribution, or logistics experience. 
  • Demonstrated ability to influence team performance and contribute to achieving production targets.
  • Proven experience with cycle counting, inventory audits, and reconciliation, with the ability to investigate discrepancies and maintain a high level of inventory accuracy.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Associates or Bachelor’s Degree
  • Six (6) plus years of manufacturing, distribution, or logistics experience.
  • Experience working with ERP systems, preferably JD Edwards (JDE), including inventory transactions, material movements, and production-related processes.

  

 

$32.10/hr plus bonus potential and benefits.

  

 

Travel Percentage: None

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.

Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

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About Stryker

Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. We are proud to be named one of the World’s Best Workplaces! For more information, visit: www.stryker.com Work Flexibility Remote – Role allows you to work the majority to 100% of time from an alternate workplace. These roles could have travel expectations, and you must work within the country of the job requisition location. Field-based – You can expect to regularly work a majority to 100% of time

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