About this role
Impulse Space is seeking a Supervisor, Materials Management to lead inventory, shipping, and receiving operations. In this role, you will manage the team and processes that ensure materials are accurately received, properly stored, and available when needed to support spacecraft development and production. The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader who builds strong teams, establishes clear operating standards, and improves material flow in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Lead daily inventory, shipping, and receiving operations, including staffing, work assignments, prioritization, and team development.
- Oversee the processing and fulfillment of material kit requests from production teams, ensuring accurate picking, system transactions, and timely delivery to support work order execution.
- Ensure incoming materials are accurately received, documented, and routed to inspection, storage, or the appropriate internal customer.
- Maintain inventory accuracy through disciplined transactions, location control, cycle counting, and timely investigation of discrepancies.
- Oversee material storage, preservation, identification, and traceability, including lot and serial number tracking, shelf-life controls, and segregation of nonconforming material.
- Manage material movement, production deliveries, replenishment, and returns to stock in coordination with planning, production control, manufacturing, and quality.
- Oversee outbound shipment preparation, including packaging, labeling, documentation, and carrier coordination.
- Coordinate with trade compliance and logistics partners to support international shipments and required shipping documentation.
- Establish and maintain standard work for receiving, put-away, material handling, inventory transactions, picking, and shipping.
- Develop and track operating metrics, including inventory accuracy, receiving turnaround time, shipment performance, and transaction timeliness.
- Identify and resolve material flow bottlenecks, recurring discrepancies, and process gaps through root cause analysis and corrective action.
- Improve stockroom layouts, storage capacity, material handling practices, and workplace organization.
- Enforce safe work practices and proper use of material handling equipment.
- Partner with supply chain, manufacturing, quality, engineering, and finance to support production priorities and maintain reliable inventory records.
Manage an hourly workforce by assessing employee performance, providing positive/constructive feedback, facilitating conflict resolution, and addressing repeat issues with corrective actions, performance improvement plans or through disciplinary means Ensure that a clean and organized work area is maintained by making continuous improvements to workspace design Perform administrative duties, including but not limited to, approving timecards, scheduling, periodic reviews, one-on-one mentoring, and training of direct reports