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materials specialist
19
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The Materials Specialist reviews materials, and designs machinery and processes in order to create those materials. Their role is to ensure materials are being used correctly based on the job and function. Their responsibilities are to visit internal and external suppliers to order materials and ensure availability, investigate and solve material concerns, manage material phase in and phase out, document raw material movement and reduce obsolete material, and move, load, store and retrieve materials, supplies and raw stock.

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  • Associate Degree in Social Science
    The number of occurrences matches with Materials Specialist in our database.
    Avg. Duration:24 monthsAvg. Fees:$16,864Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Bachelor of Arts (b.a.) in Physics Education
    The number of occurrences matches with Materials Specialist in our database.
    Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$28,739Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Associate Degree in Associate of Arts
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    Avg. Duration:30 monthsAvg. Fees:$18,910Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Master of Business Administration (M.B.A) in Project Management
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    Avg. Duration:18 monthsAvg. Fees:$19,353Type:Mostly part timeView more on Studyportals
  • Master Degree in Project Management
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    Avg. Duration:13 monthsAvg. Fees:$26,229Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
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Annual Pay Estimate for Materials Specialist and Other Important Info

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4.8 years
$48K
The average years of experience in the workforce prior to having this role
8.37 years
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The average number of roles it took our users to get to this one
3
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