Materials Planner

Job Purpose

The Material Planner is responsible for production planning and coordinates production workflow for multiple products while prioritizing operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay. Will take a lead role in continuous improvement, product flow and capacity improvement to improve the overall efficiency of manufacturing.

Nature of Duties/Responsibilities

• Analyzes customer demand and optimize build plans for specific products, keeping materials and resource requirements.
• Reviews new products/parts planning attributes and ensure they are correctly set up.
• Reviews BOM structures and ensures that they align with manufacturing strategy.
• Periodically reviews critical ERP planning attributes and keeps them aligned.
• Review ECOs, prepare implementation plans and actually implement them.
• Releases required work orders in a timely manner and promptly closes them on completion after reconciling variances.
• Follows up materials shortages and production flow thru the plant to keep build plans on schedule.
• Plans and directs Production and Inventory Control for Operations to ensure customer commitments and inventory objectives are met.
• Covers Operations planning process to ensure that there is material and capacity available to support both customer commitments and forecast.
• Directs the Inventory team to ensure that process controls are in place that will allow accurate cycle counting.
• Covers the production team to ensure schedules and customer deliveries are met.
• Works directly with Purchasing to insure purchased materials are available to meet the scheduled requirements.
• Stays current with software development, provide on-site technical expertise for the ERP system and write ad-hoc reports as required.
• Identifies software procedural improvements to the Operations process to eliminate waste.
• Relays relevant information to management regarding material shortages, potential schedule interruptions, and possible equipment maintenance that would affect a smooth and timely production input.
• Analyzes customer demand information, forecast, orders, labor, and material availability and develops a flexible yet efficient master schedule.
• Reviews part availability including quality approval prior to scheduling.
• Manages the issuance of purchase orders as recommended by the planning system or as requested by management.
• Manages PO approval process, PO revisions, supplier confirmation and storage of all purchase orders on a secured and shared site.
• Manages supplier bidding process with the creation of RFQs submission to suppliers and summary returned information as requested by the Director of Manufacturing.
• Controls Supplier's compliance to on-time delivery, terms and conditions, supply contracts and product specifications.
• Participates as needed in the Product Specification creation/revision process and facilitates execution with suppliers.
• Drive sourcing solutions for existing products as directed by executive management.
• Manage assigned products by maintaining or reducing costs of product components, packaging and finished goods.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Minimum of 5 years of related Materials Planner experience; preferably in a contract manufacturing environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Industrial Engineering preferred.
• Good understanding of critical ERP planning attributes.
• Hands on experience in ECO planning and Implementations.
• Good working knowledge of Oracle or similar ERP software with regards to planning.
• Intermediate or Advanced level of experience in Excel.

Sanmina is an Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

This is an ITAR facility and applicant must be a US Citizen or a lawful permanent resident.

Salary Range(annual): $85,000 - $110,000 . Actual base pay within this range (determined at the offer stage) will be based on a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, and skills, and is just one element of our total rewards package.