Senior Manufacturing Planning Specialist - Bloomington, MN
About The Position
As a Senior Manufacturing Planning Specialist, you’ll utilize your skills and talents to represent the production and material planning function on concurrent engineering teams. Essentially, you’ll compile and monitor monthly production schedules, create complex material structures in the material planning tool and identify process flow improvements and implement. You’ll also prepare labor and material forecasts as requested and interface periodically with supply chain or suppliers on delivery issues and problem resolution. What you’ll experience: Technologies that aren’t just top-notch, they’re often top-secret A team of bold thinkers committed to exploring what’s next Opportunities to gain new knowledge - as it’s discovered
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent plus a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree
- Exceptional understanding of bill of material concepts and methodologies
- Solid understanding of the proposal process for both material and labor estimating
- Extremely proficient with material planning tools
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant work is required plus a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
Nice To Haves
- Ability to mentor and help grow junior team members
- Understanding of earned value management and/or product costing
- Outstanding communication skills
- Commitment to ongoing professional development
- Identifies opportunities to apply AI for continuous improvement and innovation
Responsibilities
- Represent the production and material planning function on concurrent engineering teams.
- Compile and monitor monthly production schedules.
- Create complex material structures in the material planning tool.
- Identify process flow improvements and implement them.
- Prepare labor and material forecasts as requested.
- Interface periodically with supply chain or suppliers on delivery issues and problem resolution.
Benefits
- Technologies that aren’t just top-notch, they’re often top-secret
- A team of bold thinkers committed to exploring what’s next
- Opportunities to gain new knowledge - as it’s discovered
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
