Inventory Planning & Control
Develop and maintain inventory strategies to support equipment reliability, preventive maintenance, and project demands. Determine proper min/max levels, safety stock, reorder points, lead times, and critical spares. Conduct ongoing ABC analysis, cycle counting, and root-cause analysis for inventory discrepancies. Identify obsolete, excess, and slow-moving inventory and execute rationalization plans.
Maintenance Support
Coordinate closely with maintenance planners, reliability engineers, and operations to forecast demand for spare parts. Ensure critical spares lists are accurate and tied to assets. Support shutdown/turnaround planning with advanced materials kitting and readiness.
Procurement & Vendor Engagement
Work with purchasing to source cost-effective parts while maintaining quality and reliability. Establish vendor-managed inventory programs (VMI), consignment stock, or long-term supply agreements when beneficial.
Warehouse & Materials Management
Ensure the storeroom is organized, secure, and optimized for efficient picking, staging, and transactions. Oversee receiving, labeling, inspection, and proper storage of all materials. Implement and enforce standardized procedures for issuing parts, returns, and warranty tracking.
Systems & Data Integrity
Maintain accurate data in the CMMS/ERP system, including part descriptions, BOMs, locations, and stock levels. Use KPIs to monitor performance and drive continuous improvement.
Leadership & Continuous Improvement
Develop and enforce storeroom procedures, safety practices, and inventory control policies. Train and supervise storeroom personnel. Lead initiatives to reduce downtime, improve inventory turns, and reduce carrying costs.
Education Requirements/Work Experience
Bachelor's degree in supply chain, operations, business, engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience). 3-7 years of experience in MRO inventory management, maintenance planning, or industrial warehousing. Strong knowledge of CMMS/ERP systems (SAP, Maximo, Oracle, Infor, etc.). Understanding of maintenance practices, reliability principles, and industrial equipment. Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in manufacturing, chemical processing, utilities, or heavy industry. Certification such as CPM, CPIM, CSCP, or CMRP. Familiarity with lean practices, Kanban, 5S, and reliability-centered maintenance. Experience implementing VMI, kitting, or storeroom optimization initiatives.
SunCoke is a raw material processing and handling company serving steel and power customers, with principal businesses in cokemaking and coal logistics.
Coke is an essential ingredient in blast furnace production of steel.
Globally, we have 6.3 million tons of annual cokemaking capacity. Our 4.2 million tons of U.S. capacity represents about 25 percent of the U.S. and Canadian markets, with U.S. facilities in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Virginia, and international operations in Brazil and India. In addition to Cokemaking, our innovative heat-recovery cokemaking technology captures excess heat for steam or electrical power generation.
Our long-term, take-or-pay contracts contain key provisions for pass-through of coal, operating and transportation costs, insulating us from commodity price volatility. SunCoke receives a fixed fee per ton of coke produced, and none of our contracts expire before 2020
Our domestic and export terminals serve coal producers and end users in the steel, coke and power industries.
Our coal-handling terminals are strategically located to serve key U.S. ports in the Gulf Coast, East Coast and Great Lakes, with the collective capacity to blend and transload more than 25 million tons annually
The Convent Marine Terminal is one of the largest on U.S. Gulf Coast and the only terminal on the lower Mississippi with direct rail access and an Annual capacity of 15 million tons