Material Planner Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business administration, operations management, or industrial engineering.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in production planning, scheduling, materials, or manufacturing coordination.
• Working experience with an ERP/MRP system, including planning and scheduling transactions and work order management.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including formulas, pivots, and lookups, for data analysis and reporting.
• Strong communication skills and ability to clearly relay changing priorities to floor supervisors, engineers, project managers, and leadership.
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills, including the ability to quickly identify operational disruptions and devise workable workarounds.

Nice To Haves

• Direct experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365).
• APICS/ASCM certification (CPIM or CSCP), or active progress toward one.
• Prior experience with electrical distribution equipment or other engineered-to-order (ETO) products.
• Exposure to job traveler-based production environments and project-driven manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Translate released sales orders, demand forecasts, and project schedules into daily and weekly manufacturing work orders.
• Issue and maintain job travelers, hold notices, stop notices, and change order notices for the production floor in accordance with established procedures.
• Monitor production progress against schedule and adjust sequencing in response to material shortages, machine downtime, engineering changes, and shifting project priorities.
• Communicate schedules and changes to production leadership and work with them to resolve conflicts.
• Coordinate with Supply Chain and warehouse staff to verify raw material, hardware, and tooling availability before releasing jobs.
• Work with Materials Management to ensure project kits are staged, complete, and available at each build stage.
• Identify near-term capacity, labor, and tooling constraints and escalate them to manufacturing leadership.
• Maintain accurate planning parameters and routings in Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365).
• Partner with the Manufacturing Ops Coordinator and Project Managers to investigate and resolve BOM, traveler, and work order data discrepancies.
• Serve as a day-to-day contact among Engineering, Project Management, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing for production execution questions.
• Notify Project Management promptly about delays, schedule slips, and concerns affecting projects.
• Log production downtime and schedule deviations and work with production leadership on root-cause resolution.
• Produce weekly summaries of completed, delayed, missed, or rescheduled work orders, including reasons for deviations.
• Report plan variations to manufacturing leadership, maintain schedule adherence reports, and develop operational reports and metrics as directed.
• Analyze production data to identify recurring bottlenecks and recommend process improvements.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives related to scheduling, planning, and production efficiency.