Re-Sale Material Planner

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintaining safety stock and reorder levels for materials, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
• Regularly updating planning parameters on the ERP system to reflect operational requirements.
• Monitoring and controlling material needs within the system, creating material demands based on these needs and purchasing constraints.
• Overseeing raw material and parts warehouse stock turnover, identifying and resolving issues to achieve target levels.
• Preparing, tracking, and revising weekly production plans, taking into account product orders, stock levels, production capacity, and new product introductions.
• Determining and managing production work order timelines by evaluating order sizes, material availability, and production capacity.
• Managing the preparation and procurement of semi-finished product work orders as needed.
• Communicating with the Purchasing Unit to ensure ordered materials are stocked in alignment with deadlines and production plans.
• Analyzing challenges affecting production plan performance and implementing practical solutions.
• Performing capacity analyses to ensure production processes consistently meet customer engineering and capacity requirements.

Keys to Success

• Requires expanded knowledge and experience in own area; incumbents are still acquiring higher-level knowledge and skills
• Requires expanded conceptual knowledge in own area of expertise while developing additional skill sets

Supervisory Responsibilities

• No supervisory responsibilities but may provide guidance to new associates
• Builds knowledge of the company, processes and customers
• Solves a range of straightforward problems
• Analyses possible solutions using standard procedures
• Receives a moderate level of guidance and direction
• Understands key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work
• Solves standard problems by analyzing possible solutions using experience, judgment and precedents
• Impacts quality of own work and the work of others on the team; works within guidelines and policies
• Explains information to others in straightforward situations

Requirements and Preferred Skills

• 2-4 years of experience in a relevant field.
• Graduated from an engineering faculty at a recognized university.
• Demonstrates knowledge of ERP and MRP processes.
• Proficient in the English language.