Ingersoll Rand is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
Job Title: Manager Materials, Industrial Manufacturing
Location: West Chester, PA (onsite)
About Us
Imagine a company with technology leadership of over 160 years, yet it operates with the energy of a startup. Ingersoll Rand has dedicated itself to Making Life Better for its employees, customers, shareholders, and planets. We produce innovative and mission-critical flow creation and life science technologies – from compressors to precision handling of liquids, gasses, and powers – to increase industrial productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. Supported by over 80+ brands, our products are used in various end-markets including life sciences, food and beverage, clean energy, industrial manufacturing, infrastructure, and more. Across the globe, we’re driving growth with an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset. Learn more at irco.com and join us to own your future.
Job Overview:
Own the Flow. Drive the Operation. Lead What Moves the Business. At the Ingersoll Rand West Chester site, you’ll step into a mission-critical hub where uptime, precision, and real-world impact collide. As Manager, Materials, you own the flow of materials, teams, and execution across a high-velocity manufacturing operation. You’ll lead an integrated network of material planning, buyer/planners, and production scheduling, ensuring seamless alignment from demand through delivery in a fast-paced, just-in-time, make-to-order environment.
This role carries full accountability for materials planning, inventory strategy, and supply execution, making you a key driver of plant performance, scalability, and continuous improvement. You will also own warehouse operations and inventory control end-to-end, ensuring accuracy, discipline, and integrity across physical inventory and cycle count processes. In addition, you will lead shipping and receiving operations through a supervisor and broader team responsible for inbound, outbound, and traffic execution—ensuring materials move with speed and precision across the site.
Deeply embedded in Lean and continuous improvement, this role drives impact across key KPIs including inventory turns, on-time shipping to request date, and days past due, while strengthening overall supply chain performance. You will ensure uninterrupted material availability to support production, proactively closing gaps, removing constraints, and elevating execution across the operation. What sets this role apart is the expectation for hands-on leadership when it matters most—month-end close, peak shipping or receiving volumes, and urgent customer demands. This is not a distance-based leadership role; it is real-time ownership of execution.
If you’re looking to lead broadly, execute deeply, and directly impact plant performance in motion—this is it.
Responsibilities:
- Safety: Fosters a safety culture and the implements safety policies and training in compliance with the company safety program and OSHA regulations to eliminate work related injuries.
- Inventory Control: Plans, orders, executes and manages storage of critical raw materials in accordance with supplier selections and guidelines provided by Sourcing Operations using SAP/MRP system to achieve the Master Schedule and Service requirements.? Oversees Lean raw material replenishment and storage on the production floor, including initial set up, daily usage estimates, trigger points, and reorder quantities. Coordinates with other facilities to forecast any remanufactured product requirements.?
- Strategy: Deploys strategic objectives into annual goals and individual KPIs across the organization by working with teams to set appropriate targets to build daily and monthly routines to manage the business.
- Product Lifecycle: Plans for material life cycle management and eliminates obsolete inventory items while working to reduce waste through the value chain. Develops and monitors compliance with requirements related to the introduction of new products.
- Management: Develops employees through recruitment, training, coaching and establishing goals and objectives.
- Problem solving culture: Develops a culture that is tied to Daily Management by leveraging tools, consulting skills and change management processes.
- Other responsibilities as assigned or required.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree
- 5+ years of experience in the integrated functions of materials management in a manufacturing environment that has embraced lean concepts, MRP manufacturing practices, and progressive supplier relationships.
- 5+ years of ERP System experience (SAP, Oracle, etc)
- 3+ years in managerial experience focusing on standardizing planning & execution, reducing sourcing complexity, and talent development.
- 3+ years of experience driving cross-functional alignment across operations, supply chain, and production planning teams to execute on business objectives
Core Competencies:
- Integrated Materials & Inventory Leadership: Leads end-to-end materials management across planning, procurement, and inventory in a Lean, MRP environment—ensuring material availability while optimizing flow, replenishment (Kanban), and inventory levels.
- Operational Execution & Continuous Improvement: Drives disciplined execution in a high-velocity, JIT environment. Identifies gaps, implements Lean improvements, and delivers on KPIs—inventory turns, on-time delivery, and past due reduction.
- Strategic Planning & Lifecycle Management: Translates business objectives into clear plans and KPIs. Oversees material lifecycle, including new product introduction and obsolescence reduction, to minimize waste and complexity.
- People Leadership, Culture & Problem Solving: Builds and develops teams through coaching and accountability. Fosters a safety-first, problem-solving culture using data, daily management, and effective change leadership.
Preferences:
- Bachelor’s concentration (or international equivalent) in materials management, business, management or related degree.
- APICS Certification in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM).
- Experience implementing inventory control systems (Kanban) in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience in operations, inventory management, MRP and lean manufacturing processes.
- Experience with visual and daily management systems.
Travel & Work Arrangements
- Position is based on-site in West Chester, PA
What We Offer
At Ingersoll Rand, we embrace a culture of personal ownership — taking responsibility for our company, our communities, and our environment, as well as our individual health and well-being. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to empower you with the tools and support necessary to take charge of your health, ensuring that together, we can continue to make life better. Our range of benefits includes health care options like medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, as well as wellness programs. Additionally, we provide life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan, paid time off, and even an employee stock grant, among other offerings. These benefits are our commitment to you, so you can be your best at work and beyond.
Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency. For more information, visit www.IRCO.com.
What We Offer
At Ingersoll Rand, we embrace a culture of personal ownership — taking responsibility for our company, our communities, and our environment, as well as our individual health and well-being. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to empower you with the tools and support necessary to take charge of your health, ensuring that together, we can continue to make life better. Our range of benefits includes health care options like medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, as well as wellness programs. Additionally, we provide life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan, paid time off, and even an employee stock grant, among other offerings. These benefits are our commitment to you, so you can be your best at work and beyond.
Ingersoll Rand is committed to achieving workforce diversity reflective of our communities. We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
