Entry Level District Asset Protection Manager Jobs
New grad district asset protection manager jobs welcome recent graduates and entry level candidates with zero to two years of experience, where strong internship work or hands-on retail loss prevention experience can carry more weight than a lengthy resume. Most openings are on-site roles across Accounting & Auditing, Banking & Financial Services, and Investment & Asset Management, with employers like JPMorganChase, KPMG, and Advance Auto Parts hiring at this level now.
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Overview:
The Senior Specialist – Production (Asset Optimizer) is responsible for coordinating all raw materials, in-process and finished goods inventories to align with the scheduled unit production plan. This role will align with production planning, procurement, and 24/7 team operations to ensure all raw material deliveries are scheduled as required to support the production forecast and work through delivery timing impacts. This role will also be responsible for the accuracy of all onsite raw material, in process, and finished goods inventories and the overall raw material consumption process. This position will be located on-site in Cantonment, Florida.
Responsibilities:
- Overall ownership of site integrated material management processes.
- Interface with procurement, planning, scheduling, and supply chain teams to ensure raw materials, chemicals and packaging are ordered and delivered as needed to meet unit objectives.
- Engages with unit team and 24/7 Team to identify quality issues with any raw materials and chemicals that need to be addressed with the suppliers.
- Identify emerging supply issues.
- Gatekeeper for the schedulers and responsible for acceptance of the production schedule; provide the conduit between production and scheduling.
- Optimize the internal supply chain, material flow, and supports plant capacity increases (line installations, product growth, UTP) ensuring that the material handling processes are effective for plant success and comply with SQRE.
- Identifies scheduling improvement opportunities and works with schedulers to ensure rules are complied with windows for receipt of raw materials, minimum batch sizes, production wheels, sequencing, schedule breaks and changeover rules.
- Engage with supply chain to ensure that they are aware of any production schedule challenges, including planned maintenance outages, raw material concerns, unplanned downtime, and OST.
- Ensures that production runs are being scheduled with the accurate inputs regarding rates, OST, and changeover time.
- Continuously monitors throughput and production to ensure adherence to schedule and commitments.
- Detect and anticipate emerging issues that will affect productivity and the schedule; includes collection and analysis required metrics and provide short term/long term plan to address/resolve process gaps.
- Facilitate kaizen events and actions to improve efficiency, reliability, and continuously improve processes in order to minimize unplanned downtime and decrease changeover times.
- Collaborate with Asset Leader to understand and set priority for equipment repairs while communicating to appropriate stakeholders in production and scheduling.
- Communicate issues or barriers with production schedule or material containment.
- Generate ideas for improvement and support implementation of process improvements.
- Responsible for Sox control and cycle counts of inventory.
- Manages Sites KPI’s: Production Schedule compliance; Raw Material Availability; Packaging Material Availability.
Qualifications
Required Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Associate's degree or higher required; relevant professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills with the ability to communicate effectively to all levels of an organization.
- Excellent time management skills, with evidence of prioritizing to deliver the right outcomes; highly collaborative in approach; effective in building strong working relationships.
- Demonstrated experience with raw material procurement processes.
- Demonstrated ability to understand production schedules and production capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, optimize work processes, and being resourceful.
- Excellent organizational and problem solving skills.
- Experience in ERP's, preferably SAP usage for material management.
- Proficient with basic computer software (i.e. Microsoft Office).
- Ability to negotiate and operate/prioritize with ambiguity.
Desirable Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Demonstrated experience with MES.
- 4 years Santoprene experience.
- Demonstrated experience in Supply Chain.
- Associates degree in technical field.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects/tasks/programs.
Overview:
The Senior Specialist – Production (Asset Optimizer) is responsible for coordinating all raw materials, in-process and finished goods inventories to align with the scheduled unit production plan. This role will align with production planning, procurement, and 24/7 team operations to ensure all raw material deliveries are scheduled as required to support the production forecast and work through delivery timing impacts. This role will also be responsible for the accuracy of all onsite raw material, in process, and finished goods inventories and the overall raw material consumption process. This position will be located on-site in Cantonment, Florida.
Responsibilities:
- Overall ownership of site integrated material management processes.
- Interface with procurement, planning, scheduling, and supply chain teams to ensure raw materials, chemicals and packaging are ordered and delivered as needed to meet unit objectives.
- Engages with unit team and 24/7 Team to identify quality issues with any raw materials and chemicals that need to be addressed with the suppliers.
- Identify emerging supply issues.
- Gatekeeper for the schedulers and responsible for acceptance of the production schedule; provide the conduit between production and scheduling.
- Optimize the internal supply chain, material flow, and supports plant capacity increases (line installations, product growth, UTP) ensuring that the material handling processes are effective for plant success and comply with SQRE.
- Identifies scheduling improvement opportunities and works with schedulers to ensure rules are complied with windows for receipt of raw materials, minimum batch sizes, production wheels, sequencing, schedule breaks and changeover rules.
- Engage with supply chain to ensure that they are aware of any production schedule challenges, including planned maintenance outages, raw material concerns, unplanned downtime, and OST.
- Ensures that production runs are being scheduled with the accurate inputs regarding rates, OST, and changeover time.
- Continuously monitors throughput and production to ensure adherence to schedule and commitments.
- Detect and anticipate emerging issues that will affect productivity and the schedule; includes collection and analysis required metrics and provide short term/long term plan to address/resolve process gaps.
- Facilitate kaizen events and actions to improve efficiency, reliability, and continuously improve processes in order to minimize unplanned downtime and decrease changeover times.
- Collaborate with Asset Leader to understand and set priority for equipment repairs while communicating to appropriate stakeholders in production and scheduling.
- Communicate issues or barriers with production schedule or material containment.
- Generate ideas for improvement and support implementation of process improvements.
- Responsible for Sox control and cycle counts of inventory.
- Manages Sites KPI’s: Production Schedule compliance; Raw Material Availability; Packaging Material Availability.
Qualifications
Required Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Associate's degree or higher required; relevant professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills with the ability to communicate effectively to all levels of an organization.
- Excellent time management skills, with evidence of prioritizing to deliver the right outcomes; highly collaborative in approach; effective in building strong working relationships.
- Demonstrated experience with raw material procurement processes.
- Demonstrated ability to understand production schedules and production capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, optimize work processes, and being resourceful.
- Excellent organizational and problem solving skills.
- Experience in ERP's, preferably SAP usage for material management.
- Proficient with basic computer software (i.e. Microsoft Office).
- Ability to negotiate and operate/prioritize with ambiguity.
Desirable Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Demonstrated experience with MES.
- 4 years Santoprene experience.
- Demonstrated experience in Supply Chain.
- Associates degree in technical field.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects/tasks/programs.
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Entry Level District Asset Protection Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get an entry level district asset protection manager job?
Start by gaining hands-on experience in retail loss prevention, security, or store-level asset protection roles, since most employers use those as a pipeline into district-level positions. A degree in criminal justice, business, or a related field helps, but demonstrated results from internships or hourly AP roles often matter more. Highlighting incident documentation, shrink reduction, and team coordination in your resume gives you a real edge at this stage.
Which companies hire entry level district asset protection managers?
Companies hiring entry level district asset protection managers right now include JPMorganChase, KPMG, and Advance Auto Parts, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. At this level, large retailers, grocery chains, and big-box operators tend to post the most openings, since they have the store footprint and training infrastructure to bring in candidates with limited district-level experience.
Are there remote entry level district asset protection manager jobs?
Yes, though most postings at this level are on-site given the field-based nature of the role. About 9% of entry level district asset protection manager openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, and those tend to involve administrative, analytics, or coordination responsibilities rather than direct store visits. On-site roles remain the dominant path for candidates building district-level experience early in their careers.
Are these new grad district asset protection manager jobs?
Yes, many of these postings are new grad and junior roles that welcome recent graduates and candidates with limited experience. A new grad-friendly posting typically requires zero to two years of experience, accepts internship or part-time AP work as a credential, and may prioritize a relevant degree or certification over a long work history. Look for listings that mention training programs or entry-level development tracks as strong signals.
Which industries hire the most entry level district asset protection managers?
Entry Level district asset protection manager roles concentrate in Accounting & Auditing, Banking & Financial Services, and Investment & Asset Management, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Those sectors drive hiring at this level because their high store counts and inventory volumes create ongoing demand for organized, multi-site loss prevention oversight, even from candidates who are early in their AP careers.