Materials Planner
About The Position
The Materials Planner plans, schedules, and monitors material movement through the production cycle. The role determines material requirements from production schedules and coordinates material movement with purchasing, production, and engineering. The planner works to ensure non-conformances or variances are approved or minimized, tracks shortages, and runs shortage meetings with the procurement team. The role also highlights critical part shortages to management when they could jeopardize the ship schedule, maintains bills of materials, and ensures they support efficient material flow and align with the assembly process. The planner must understand manufacturing capacity and allocate materials as needed to meet build-plan commitments. The ideal candidate is process-oriented, results-driven, detail-focused, and comfortable learning new concepts and processes and adapting to changing priorities and deadlines. The role requires independent work as well as collaboration with cross-functional teams, strong analytical and communication skills, and the ability to provide guidance to teams across Operations.
Requirements
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and independently.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to work on complex problems requiring analysis of multiple factors.
- Strong communication skills and ability to provide guidance effectively and efficiently to teams within Operations.
- B.S. in Business or equivalent.
- Experience and/or working knowledge of MRP.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with SAP is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Plan, schedule, and monitor the movement of materials through the production cycle.
- Determine material requirements from production schedules.
- Coordinate material movement with purchasing, production, and engineering.
- Ensure non-conformances or variances are approved and/or minimized.
- Track shortages and run shortage meetings with the procurement team.
- Alert management to critical part shortages that could jeopardize the ship schedule.
- Maintain bills of materials and ensure they support efficient material flow and align with the assembly process.
- Understand manufacturing capacity and allocate materials as needed to meet build-plan commitments.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and other voluntary benefits
- 401(k) with company matching
- Employee stock purchase program (ESPP)
- Student debt assistance
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Development and career growth opportunities and programs
- Financial planning benefits
- Wellness benefits, including an employee assistance program (EAP)
- Paid time off
- Paid company holidays
- Family care and bonding leave
- Performance incentive programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
