Materials Planner II

About the role

As a Materials Planner, you will play a critical role in ensuring uninterrupted production by planning and coordinating the flow of materials, components, and inventory throughout the manufacturing operation. Working closely with suppliers, production, purchasing, and logistics teams, you will balance customer demand, inventory levels, and production schedules to ensure the right materials are available at the right time. This position is ideal for professionals with experience in materials planning, production planning, inventory management, supply chain operations, MRP/ERP systems, demand planning, and manufacturing environments.

Responsibilities

• Schedule productive material required to achieve the production plans, activities or processes
• Monitor and manage material and supply of inventories
• Assess production data, including volume produced, consumption of raw materials and quality control measures
• Estimate/forecast materials requirements
• Confer with department supervisors to assess progress and discuss the changes needed
• Requisition and maintain inventories of materials, supplies and equipment necessary to meet production demands
• Monitor inventory to standard metrics, including turns, target inventory and excess/obsolete disposition practices
• Revise production schedules when required due to labor or material shortages, backlogs or other interruptions, collaborating with management, production, engineering and work orders
• Monitor shipping and receiving operations of the facility, distribute production schedules, and work orders to departments
• Serve as escalation point of contact to supply base, internal partners/departments and Corporate management to ensure assembly production to plan
• Establish high level of interaction with Canton PDC to ensure successful supply chain flow
• Support the implementation of the RPPL Materials tasks/objectives during the launch of new products
• Coordinate accounting activities for purpose of invoice corrections/transmittal information, price corrections, and material cost calculations
• High level of attention to detail needed

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, or related field AND 2+ years of experience in Material purchasing and planning in a manufacturing setting, OR minimum of 6 years experience in Material purchasing and planning in a manufacturing setting in lieu of a degree
• Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems (e.g., Microsoft Navision, Business Central, Paragon/SAP)
• Microsoft Office proficiency
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• High level of ability to multi-task
• An attached resume is required

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with manufacturing processes
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings and specifications
• Experience utilizing PowerBI dashboards for data analytics
• Experience utilizing self-serve data to analyze and improve planning systems
• Experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve productivity, efficiency, or business outcomes

Pay

Starting salary range: $78,000 – $100,000 USD (dependent on knowledge, skills, and experience)

Benefits

• Annual bonus program
• 401k company contribution with company match up to 6% plus non-elective company contribution of 3–7% depending on age
• Starting at 4 weeks paid vacation
• 13+ calendar holidays
• 8 weeks paid parental leave
• Employee assistance program
• Comprehensive healthcare plans and wellness programs
• Onsite fitness (at some locations)
• Tuition assistance and volunteer paid time off
• Short-term and long-term disability plans

Schedule & Location

Hybrid: 4 days per week in-office / 1 day remote. Position is based in Tooele, UT, US. Relocation assistance is not available.

This position is not open for Visa sponsorship; applicants must be legally authorized to work permanently in the United States at the time of application.