Collaborating with suppliers to ensure execution to planned orders and schedules, and resolves issues with suppliers to ensure material availability for facility production. As Material Planner, you will work with the facility production schedulers and operations personnel to support facility production and point of use material availability. Ensures alignment of facility inventory accuracy and inventory systems planning parameters with the plan for every part to maintain planning integrity.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the timely delivery of materials to the facility, collaborating with suppliers to coordinate deliveries, shipping schedules and work schedules to meet facility production plans.
• Using supplier collaboration technologies, collaborates with suppliers and operations to plan delivery of material for production.
• Actively collaborates with suppliers to perform root cause corrective actions to resolve quality and supplier performance issues.
• This position analyses established parts schedules and production requirements, converting requirements into appropriate piece parts, requisitioning the materials, regulating inventory levels and issuing work orders.
• Managing and performing supplier scheduling and implementation of engineering changes for the efficient manufacture of products and components
• Performing work to improve point of use material availability, applying root cause analysis and corrective actions.

Requirements:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong Excel skills
• Relevant college or university degree, or equivalent Supply Chain, Logistics Management, or Industrial Engineering experience.
• General knowledge of production scheduling and capacity management.
• Knowledge and/or experience in material control, purchasing, parts distribution, inventory control, manufacturing engineering, operations and transportation or logistics desired.