Supply Chain Lead

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About This Role:

As the Supply Chain Lead – Materials and Logistics at Crusoe's Ponchatoula facility, you will play a crucial and supervisory role in ensuring the smooth and efficient end-to-end flow of materials, from receiving through kitting and final shipment, supporting our cutting-edge data center construction business. You will act as the primary functional supervisor for the Material Handling Team. This position is critical to maintaining high safety and quality standards, driving team productivity, and ensuring the accurate processing and movement of all materials to support aggressive production goals. This is a full-time position.

What You'll Be Working On

1. Team Leadership & Workflow Coordination (Functional Supervision)

• Functionally supervise and direct the daily activities of the material management & logistics staff, delegating tasks (receiving, kitting, loading, movement, and shipping) to ensure priority work is completed efficiently and safely.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for material status, resolving conflicts, and clearly reporting status updates to management.
• Interchange seamlessly with other departments (Production, Quality, Purchasing, and Shipping) to align material flow with scheduling and demand.

2. Receiving and Inventory Control (Inbound Flow & Storage)

• Lead the receiving process, ensuring incoming goods are inspected for damage upon delivery and verified against packing slips and Purchase Orders (POs).
• Ensure the team accurately segregates and stores materials in the designated quarantine area until receiving inspection is passed.
• Oversee the verification process, ensuring materials requiring special documentation (Heat #s, Lot#s, Material Test Reports, Certifications) are tracked and filed correctly.
• Enforce proper storage controls to prevent damage and deterioration, ensuring products with shelf-life are managed on a FIFO basis.
• Coordinate cycle counts and physical inventory counts using ERP data (Acumatica) to maintain inventory accuracy.

3. Warehousing, Kitting, and Production Support

• Own the integrity of all packaging and labeling procedures.
• Lead the kitting process, reading and interpreting Bills of Material (BOM) to accurately identify, pick, prepare, and tag materials for production.
• Oversee the issuance of both purchased and in-house manufactured components to the Manufacturing Orders (MOs) in the ERP system.
• Ensure all kitted parts and inventory delivered to production meet quality assurance standards.
• Maintain and enforce a clean, organized, and safe work area (5S) for the entire team.

4. Shipping and Logistics (Outbound Flow)

• Serve as the functional supervisor over shipping activities, ensuring all personnel are verifying the correct product is shipped to customers.
• Oversee the packaging process to prevent damage and preserve product conformity, adhering to minimum package requirements and customer specifications.
• Ensure all pertinent documentation (packing slips, carrier labels) is included with the shipment or delivery.
• Ensure finished products are identified, preserved, and segregated prior to shipment.

5. Safety, Equipment, and Process Improvement

• Serve as the safety lead for the material handling area, enforcing adherence to safety protocols, proper lifting techniques, and equipment operation procedures (forklifts, cranes).
• Operate industrial forklifts and/or overhead cranes as needed.
• Train and certify new team members on the safe and effective operation of forklifts and signaling overhead crane operators.
• Actively identify, recommend, and implement process efficiencies within the material flow, applying best practices to improve throughput.

What You'll Bring to the Team

• Material Handling & Leadership: Proven ability to safely load, unload, and move materials, with demonstrated experience in leading, mentoring, or guiding a small team within a manufacturing or warehouse environment.
• Process Ownership & Detail Orientation: A strong ability to read and interpret Bills of Material, coupled with a meticulous attention to detail required for ensuring accurate kitting, labeling, and inventory tracking.
• Advanced Equipment Operation: Demonstrated proficiency and a clean safety record operating industrial forklifts. Experience and certification with overhead cranes is highly preferred.
• Communication & Collaboration: Exceptional communication skills necessary to effectively direct team members and interchange seamlessly across departments (Production, Shipping).
• Safety & Physical Requirements: Proven commitment to safety compliance. The role requires the ability to safely lift, lower, push, and pull merchandise up to 50 lbs, as well as the ability to stand, walk, stoop, and bend for 8 or more hours daily.

Bonus Points

• Computer skills to cross-train and support various functions within the shipping and warehouse departments (ERP/Acumatica experience is a plus).
• Proven ability to suggest and implement safety protocols in a manufacturing or industrial setting.

Benefits:

• Industry Competitive Pay

• Restricted Stock Units in a fast-growing, well-funded technology company
• Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability

• Teladoc

• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary
• Generous paid time off and holiday schedule

• Cell Phone Reimbursement

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Subscription to the Calm app
• Company paid commuter benefit; $300 per month

Compensation

• Compensation: Compensation will be paid in the range of $30 - $35. Stock Options are included in all offers. Pay to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.