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Senior Materials Coordinator 1st Shift 32.40hr.

Stryker


Job Location:

Waltham, MA - USA

Hourly Salary: USD 32 - 32
Posted: 6 October 2026 (2 days ago)
Application Deadline: 3 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Work Flexibility: Onsite

The Senior Materials Coordinator is responsible for leading day-to-day production planning and scheduling activities to support safe complaint and efficient manufacturing operations. This role is also responsible for material handling activities including shipping and receiving cycle counting inventory transactions and kitting production materials for assembly. This role serves as a key liaison between Production Quality Engineering and Procurement to ensure production plans align with demand capacity inventory targets and regulatory requirements.

The Senior Materials Coordinator provides functional leadership to assembly technicians drives continuous improvement initiatives and ensures adherence to Strykers quality system policies and performance expectations.

What You Will Do

  • Develop and execute production schedules that align with customer demand inventory targets and service level requirements.

  • Monitor schedule adherence and adjust production plans based on changes in demand material availability or operational priorities.

  • Balance labor capacity and material constraints to support efficient manufacturing operations.

  • Maintain planning data within ERP/MRP systems including lead times lot sizes and routing information.

  • Perform cycle counts reconcile inventory discrepancies and complete inventory transactions to maintain inventory accuracy.

  • Coordinate daily shipping and receiving activities and communicate with parcel carriers regarding inbound and outbound shipments.

  • Pull and kit production materials to ensure assembly teams have required components before shift start.

  • Analyze planning and inventory metrics communicate priorities and risks to stakeholders and implement process improvements that improve planning efficiency and supply reliability.

What You Will Need

Required Qualifications

  • High school diploma or equivalent.

  • Minimum 3 years of experience in production planning scheduling materials management or supply chain within a manufacturing environment.

  • Experience using ERP/MRP systems for production planning and inventory management.

  • Experience performing inventory control activities including cycle counting and inventory reconciliation.

  • Ability to operate material handling equipment including hand trucks.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Associates degree or Bachelors degree.

  • APICS/ASCM certification such as CPIM or CSCP.

  • Experience in a regulated manufacturing industry including medical device pharmaceutical or aerospace.

  • Experience supporting new product introductions engineering changes or process validation activities.

  • Advanced Microsoft Excel and data analysis experience.

  • Previous lead-level or senior-level production planning experience.

$32.40 per hour plus bonus eligible 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 contractors legal duty to furnish information.


Required Experience:

Senior IC


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Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongsid ... View more

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