MRP Planner

Leonardo DRS, Inc.•Dallas, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Join Leonardo DRS as an MRP Planner and play a key role in keeping manufacturing operations on track through effective production scheduling, material planning, and cross-functional coordination. This position is ideal for someone who enjoys balancing demand, solving planning challenges, and working closely with operations, procurement, and project teams to ensure products move efficiently through production.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 3 years demonstrated experience
Solid understanding of business processes and functional inter-relationships
Strong background in project material management
Extensive experience in production planning
Skilled in the use of Excel, Excel Pivot Tables, Power Point, Word, as well as Sharepoint
Strong understanding of MRP systems
U.S. Citizenship required.
This position requires an active DOD security clearance or the ability to obtain such clearance within a reasonable time after commencement of employment.

Responsibilities

Based on the MPS driven demand, select and sequence available jobs to be run at specific workstations or machines
Meet weekly with Contracts to review all pending and recently received demands and assign planner responsibility to the appropriate individual
Manage overall workload and align resources as needed to maintain balance
Drive consistent communications between planning, project accounting, and project management for consistent project Material EAC’s and Execution Charts
Improve current system, functions, and daily operations to more effectively meet goals
Maintain manufacturing build plans on a daily basis
Maintain the run and set up times associated with each job / product / part
Create and maintain the expected completion of each scheduled job
Review the schedule and ensure the raw materials are available when needed to run according to the schedule
Create a forward-looking plan to create purchase requisitions and monitor material deliveries to support the run schedules
Ensure all outside services are planned and monitored
Consolidate demand for purchase requisitions
Highlight critical parts and any issue, which may keep operations from meeting the MPS
Support, communicate and defend the mission, values and culture of the company