Material Planner II

The Material Planner II’s primary role is the material planning of specific components within a commodity group. This includes setting a production schedule and procuring purchased and manufactured materials to meet the demand put on the factory from Logistics. This position will work independently and lead/facilitate continuous process improvements.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Analyze and provide visibility of external / internal items needed for FG production orders scheduled (Machines and Kits).
• Coordinates the availability of items needed with Commodity Planner.
• Communicate any risk of schedule compliance to Manufacturing management for machines/kits which could be component related, machine down scenarios, resources, etc.
• Coordinates the prioritization of assembly schedule with Commodity Planners to ensure the most efficient flow of production finished goods each week.
• Ensure spare part transfer picklists are complete.
• Schedules and transacts weekly/daily outside warehouse material pulls.
• Resolve delivery outbound issues associated with machines and kits.

Commodity Planning:

• Procure raw materials to meet master production schedule.
• Works with Purchasing to negotiate inventory levels.
• Resolves day to day issues concerning scheduling, quality and delivery problems.
• Maintains the system parameters and utilizes software tools to efficiently execute the planning process.
• Manages excess and obsolete inventory.
• Strives to increase flexibility within the manufacturing environment in order to meet distribution demand.

ECN Implementation:

• Works concurrently with other departments and core teams on new product development projects.
• Coordinates the release of Engineering Change Notices to ensure a successful implementation within the production environment.

Internal Manufacturing Planning:

• Prioritizes internal manufactured parts needed to support parent componentry and final assembly products.
• Manages daily / weekly those exception messages (expedites, defers and cancels) related to internal manufactured parts as a result of master schedule changes, inventory discrepancies to inventory.
• Communicates any potential inventory discrepancies to inventory control personnel.
• Works with Supervisors to ensure on time availability of internally manufactured components.
• Communicates in any risk of schedule compliance to Manager / Supervisors which could be component related, machine down scenarios or others.
• Resolves day to day issues concerning scheduling, inventory discrepancies.
• Manages weekly collective orders, subcontract orders, phase in/out, scrapping of parts and ECN or deviation related planning.
• Leads internal Kanban development, documentation, setup (including SAP) and daily scheduling.

Master Scheduler:

• Creates manufactured orders to support production requirements and desired inventory levels.
• Creates and maintains an achievable production plan which meets Logistics demand.
• Identifies resources and capacity required.
• Reviews all non-standard lead time requests and plans accordingly based on manufacturing constraints.