Materials Planner

Ingersoll Rand - West Chester, PA

Full-time

West Chester, PA

Machinery Manufacturing

About the position

The Materials Planner plays a vital role in ensuring timely delivery of materials to support production operations by managing material planning activities from placing purchase orders, follow up with suppliers to deliver product to production assembly lines and/or service parts. Has a direct impact on ensuring the plant has access to the inputs, materials, goods, and services it needs for its current and future operations. Plans engineering change and coordinates into production when appropriate. Provides other support to production and management as required.

Responsibilities

• Plans all purchased parts within responsibility area. Make decisions to release, firm, cancel, or defer work based upon current inventory, demand, and capacity. Responsible for maintaining appropriate inventory levels to support production plan.
• Places and maintains purchase orders for raw materials within responsibility area. Works with suppliers to expedite or defer materials as dictated by changes in internal and external customer requirements and to meet production and inventory objectives. Works independently with suppliers to manage material supply to ensure on time deliveries.
• Plans Service Parts requirements for purchased common material to meet external customer's variable demand.
• Facilitates problem resolutions with Accounts Payable related to purchase orders/ invoicing and pricing.
• Maintains accurate purchase order information in the ERP system. Modifies order release due dates, quantities, and closes purchase orders, etc, based on planning demand.
• Plans engineering changes to ensure ECN instructions are clear and compiled. Works with Production and Purchasing to stop procurement of material affected by change. Keeps designated engineers informed of ECN implementation status; coordinates proper rotation of inventory to minimize scrap/reworked parts at incorporation time. Reviews bill of material changes and updates ERP system with planner, lead times, order policy information to ensure proper planning of new parts into production. Establishes effectively dates and monitors inventory levels of new and old parts to minimize cost impact. Facilitates the Engineering Change until incorporation.
• Represents Production Planning and Analysis at various meetings and relays related information to production planning and analysis staff. Collects information, complies into standard formats, prepares monthly reports and other management reports as required.

Requirements

• 3+ years of purchasing experience required
• 3+ years of experience working in a production/manufacturing environment
• 3+ years of experience in negotiating capabilities suppliers
• Proven track record of hitting cost reduction targets and project implementation
• 2+ years of experience with MRP/ERP, JIT, or Kanban

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's degree
• Knowledge with JDE
• Purchasing or Material Certifications and/or membership
• Excel experience
• Manufacturing or distribution experience