Materials Planner

Innova Solutions•Menlo Park, CA

About The Position

Innova Solutions is hiring an Inventory Control Specialist for a six-month contract assignment in Menlo Park, California. The role focuses on accurate inventory control and manufacturing transactions in NetSuite, maintaining work orders and assembly records, investigating inventory discrepancies, and reconciling expected material consumption with ERP activity. The position also supports contract manufacturers, remote or deployment locations, month-end activities, and Finance requests. The successful candidate will maintain documentation and audit trails, help improve inventory-control processes, and manage high-volume transactional work with accuracy. Applicants must be able to work on a W-2 basis; 1099 and Corp-to-Corp arrangements are not considered.

Requirements

At least three years of experience in inventory control, manufacturing transactions, ERP administration, materials management, or production control.
Experience creating and processing manufacturing work orders and related inventory transactions, including adjustments, transfers, consumption, returns, and assembly builds.
Working knowledge of Bills of Materials (BOMs), component-to-parent relationships, and how BOM quantities translate into material consumption.
Experience researching transaction history, inventory discrepancies, and reconciliation issues.
Strong Excel skills, including lookups, pivot tables, filtering, formulas, and reconciling large data sets.
Exceptional attention to detail and ability to maintain accuracy while processing a high volume of routine and repetitive transactions.
Strong organizational, documentation, and follow-through skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities and time-sensitive production requests.
Ability to identify questionable or incorrect transactions, investigate or escalate issues appropriately, and avoid unsupported assumptions.
Ability to be engaged on a W-2 basis; 1099 contractors and Corp-to-Corp arrangements are not accepted.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with an ERP/MRP system; NetSuite experience is strongly preferred.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Experience in electronics, aerospace, defense, or high-tech manufacturing environments.
Experience supporting engineering changes, New Product Introduction (NPI), or contract manufacturers.

Responsibilities

Execute and maintain accurate NetSuite inventory transactions, including adjustments, transfers, returns, reversals, corrections, rework, scrap, and additional material consumption.
Create, maintain, process, and close manufacturing work orders according to approved production requirements and documentation.
Process component consumption and issuance and assembly builds, ensuring transactions align with approved BOMs, build quantities, and manufacturing records.
Review approved BOM revisions and engineering changes, and update applicable inventory transactions to reflect material consumption accurately.
Research NetSuite transaction history to investigate inventory discrepancies, including work orders, item receipts, adjustments, transfers, and assembly builds.
Reconcile expected BOM consumption against actual ERP transactions; identify and correct missing, duplicate, or inaccurate postings with appropriate authorization.
Support inventory reconciliation for contract manufacturers, remote or deployment locations, month-end activities, and Finance requests.
Generate recurring NetSuite inventory and transaction reports and use Excel to reconcile inventory, BOM, work order, purchase history, and transaction data.
Monitor open work orders and outstanding inventory transactions, maintain supporting documentation and audit trails, and drive transactional items to timely completion.
Maintain inventory-control work instructions and standard processes, support historical data cleanup, and identify opportunities to reduce repetitive manual work and transaction errors.