.Our client is an international global leading manufacturing company and they have requested us to search for an experienced Materials Manager for their facility currently expanding in Tijuana, B.C.The Materials Manager is responsible to drive strategic direction of the business and ensuring achievement of operating and production objectives consistent with quality assurance requirements and customer, optimizing the utilization of the workforce to minimize manufacturing costs. Participates as a key member of plant manager's staff in all critical decisions impacting facility**MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES**- Develop and implement Material Production Scheduling/Planning System to meet customer demand while managing operational and capacity constraint.- Drives sales goals of the manufacturing plant-manages product additions and deletions, including coordination of all expediting activities.- Lead and direct the material planning & purchasing team to balance the demand as driven by Material Requirements Planning (MRP), shop floor capacity and customer sales orders.- Plans, directs and coordinates a staff of Master Production Schedulers and Material Planners to ensure goals are met or exceeded- Responsible for the following key measures: Work-in-process, order date accuracy, on-time, work release, customer on-time-delivery, material velocity through the plant, and employee engagement.- Full Logistics responsibilities including a Distribution Center Management.- Ensures purchases required for raw material & components to support production plans for internally manufacture or supplied by outside sources. Supervises & Leads the entire SIOP Process.- Assists in expediting material, where required, to meet shortfall between current plan and customer order requirements.- Analyzes data, including enterprise requirements planning information and prepares consolidated managerial reports as needed to facilitate and recommend actions to ensure plant/product line optimal supply chain execution.- Production Control & Internal Warehouses management.- Develop and implement programs to utilize the elements of the Company's Business Systems to achieve strategic goals of the plant, and profit plan objectives of the plant