Materials Planner

Core Responsibilities (Materials Planner Duties):

• Responsible for Capacity Planning, Detail scheduling, Material requisitions and shop floor and inventory control.
• Schedule work for individual operations/machines and develops, maintains and drive schedule execution, considering raw materials and shipping dates of products.
• Ensure alignment of the Master Schedule in relation to booked and forecast Sales/Production Plan. May monitor various product lines.
• Balance the Capacity Plan and communicate needed adjustments to production supervisors and materials supervisors. Alters schedules to meet unforeseen conditions.
• Execute decisions concerning detailed scheduling and shop floor control to maintain schedule adherence. Monitor Performance and correct problems.
• Work with Engineering to manage the introduction of new parts into production.
• Work with customer service and production to on all changes, schedule cancellations, and/or customer schedule push-ins/push-outs.
• Work with estimating to proactively identify capacity constraints and facilitate improving capacity to ensure potential customer demands.
• Identify and document process problems to management and quality with proposed recommended solutions to improve operations.

Qualifications:

• Ability to build and maintain positive customer relationships
• Experience in production scheduling and manufacturing or related field or equivalent work experience
• Prior experience in Regulatory Compliance, Export Compliance (EAR and ITAR)
• Advanced knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Organizational and problem-solving skills.
• MRP system experience in production/material inventory control.
• Knowledge of processes and machines related to products manufactured within given business unit.
• Proven success interacting with peers, senior management and other functional areas.
• Ability to work independently, to multi-task handling simultaneous work assignments and projects, and drive “Lean” process improvements
• Advanced ability to communicate both written and orally in the English language

Education Requirements

• BS Degree in Business or related field is preferred.
• High School Diploma or GED required.