Production Material Support (Water Spider)

Knightdale, NCPosted Jul 27, 2026

Job Overview

The Production Material Support serves as the dedicated link between warehouse operations and the production floor, ensuring that all materials required for manufacturing are delivered accurately, on time, and in alignment with true demand. This role is responsible for proactively staging, replenishing, and returning materials while maintaining accuracy. The Production Material Support prevents production delays by ensuring shortages are addressed before impact and by executing material movement with a full understanding of demand signals, BOM requirements, and inventory integrity.

This position requires strong communication skills, attention to detail, and a commitment to maintaining a smooth and efficient material flow that supports uninterrupted production operations.

A Day In The Life

Key Responsibilities

Material Delivery & Replenishment

Serve as the primary support contact for production regarding urgent material needs, shortages, substitutions, and demand-driven changes.
Execute all material pulls—standard and shortage-based—using demand data to ensure actions do not create downstream impacts.
Proactively stage materials for upcoming jobs/work orders based on pick lists, production schedules, and consumption patterns.
Coordinate emergency replenishments to prevent production downtime.

Shortages, Discrepancies & Issue Resolution

Investigate missing, short, or misallocated materials and resolve issues before they affect production flow.
Communicate root causes of recurring shortages or material flow problems to warehouse and production leadership.
Ensure that all shortage or expedited picks are aligned with true system demand before issuing material.

Perform all material movements (issues, returns, adjustments, staging transactions) accurately.
Inspect unused, excess, or returned materials for damage, labeling accuracy, and lot traceability before reintroducing them into inventory.
Support inventory accuracy initiatives including cycle counts, reconciliation, aisle audits, and work-in-progress verification.
Maintain strict adherence to inventory management best practices to prevent ghost inventory and system variances.

Material Flow Organization & Efficiency

Maintain clean, organized staging areas, return zones, and kitting locations to support efficient and visual material flow.
Collaborate with warehouse, purchasing, and production teams to improve material delivery methods, reduce handling, and eliminate waste in the process.
Identify and recommend improvements to flow, replenishment timing, and transactions to enhance overall efficiency.

What will help you thrive in this role?

Skills & Qualifications

High school diploma or equivalent.
Previous warehouse, inventory, material handling, or manufacturing experience preferred.
SAP knowledge or the ability to complete SAP inventory management training
Strong understanding of material flow, BOM structures, and demand-driven replenishment.
Ability to troubleshoot shortages and discrepancies under time-sensitive conditions.
Effective communication skills with both warehouse and production teams.
High attention to detail with commitment to transactional accuracy.
Ability to work in a fast-paced production environment while maintaining organization and prioritization.
Basic computer skills preferred.

Physical Requirements

Regularly lift, carry, push, and pull up to 30 pounds.
Ability to stand, walk, bend, stoop, reach, and perform repetitive motions throughout the workday.
Ability to work in a warehouse and manufacturing environment with exposure to varying temperatures, noise, and moving equipment.
Ability to work up to 10-hour shifts and weekends as business needs require.

Hubbell Incorporated

Hubbell creates critical infrastructure solutions that power our customers, communities, people and the planet. Our company is strategically aligned around enabling grid modernization and electrification. As more products plug in to an aging grid, Hubbell solutions enable the transition to a more reliable, resilient and efficient energy infrastructure. Founded in 1888 our innovation has made us a leading global manufacturer of high quality electrical and utility solutions enabling customers to operate critical infrastructure reliably and efficiently.

The company operates in two segments. Hubbell Utility Solutions (HUS) enable the grid to conduct, communicate and control energy across utility applications and Hubbell Electrical Solutions (HES) are essential to managing power across a wide range of industries and applications. Our vertical market solutions can be applied to markets including Data Centers, Renewables, Commercial Buildings, Industrial, Telecom and Transportation. Supporting both of our business segments is our corporate and Hubbell Unified Business Solutions teams that provide consistent process, tools technologies across our businesses.

We are committed to operating sustainably and ethically while promoting an inclusive and supportive culture for our people to grow and develop in their careers. Our employees proudly work and serve our communities from our headquarters in Shelton, CT, across the United States and around the globe.

Hubbell Electrical Solutions

Hubbell Electrical Solutions (HES) are essential to managing power across a wide range of industries and applications. HES provides the critical components that allow operators of buildings, factories and other industrial infrastructure to connect, protect, wire and manage power.

Hubbell Incorporated, its subsidiaries and affiliates, is an EO Employer AA: M/F/Veteran/Disability. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other protected class.

The above summary of position responsibilities and requirements is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an exhaustive list of duties, skills, efforts, physical requirements, or working conditions associated with the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of those principal position elements essential for making decisions related to position performance, employee development, and compensation.