About this role
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.