Material Planner

Trane Italia•Saint Peters, MO

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable, and efficient climate solutions for buildings, homes and transportation, it's our responsibility to put the planet first. For us at Trane Technologies, and through our businesses including Trane® and Thermo King, sustainability is not just how we do business—it is our business. We boldly go. As a Material Planner with Trane Technologies, we will call on you to collaborate with other manufacturing teams to solve problems, and to improve processes and key metrics. Your crucial responsibility will be to manage raw material and component purchases and to ensure their timely delivery to the plant in support of assembly operations.

Requirements

Previous experience in supply chain planning, demand planning, logistics, or purchasing.
Exposure to manufacturing, quality control, production planning, warehousing, or inventory control.
Experience with major ERP platforms / manufacturing databases.
Great written and verbal communication skills – you’ll be sending lots of emails to suppliers!

Responsibilities

Plan purchased raw material and components by category and supplier to maintain optimal inventory levels to support production requirements and inventory turn goals.
Active partnership with procurement, supplier representatives, logistics, scheduling, engineering, quality, finance and assembly operations.
Fulfill orders by expediting, deferring, or canceling delivery of goods, and oversees supplier compliance.
Resolve problems related to purchases, pricing discrepancies, and receipt-to-invoice reconciliation.
Support inventory management, data accuracy and operational effectiveness.
Engage in product life-cycle initiatives associated with design modifications, value-engineering and supplier sourcing changes.
Participate in lean problem-solving projects and events to create sustainable standard work.