Materials Planner

Job Summary

Reporting to the Materials Manager, the Materials Planner is responsible for coordinating with the Shipping/Receiving and Materials departments with the distribution of our product, ensuring customer requirements are met and exceeded. This includes sub-contractor scheduling, tracking, and attainment metrics.

Main Duties And Responsibilities

Adheres to procedures and instructions.

Responsible for maintaining safe working conditions and practices, ensuring that good safety processes are included in all activities. Ensure the Standards of Section 28 of the OHSA are met.

Responsible For Inventory Control Within QAD Which Consists Of:

1. Performing cycle counts at all levels in BOM and entering initial counts, root cause issues, and correcting inventory.
2. Ensuring accuracy of reporting points.
3. Investigating and understanding negative inventories and adjusting accordingly.
4. Verifying accuracy for BOM, item master setup, and sub-contractor setup.
5. Managing WIP inventories at all locations including subcontractors.
6. Processing subcontractor inventories.
7. Maintaining supplier/subcontractor cumulative maintenance.
8. Issuing and tracking subcontractor/supplier schedule attainment and delivery daily to ensure inventory accuracy at all levels.
9. Managing sub-contractor schedules and ensuring inventories are maintained through weekly reconciliation processes.
10. Ensuring proper inventories of containers (expendable and returnable) are in place to support our EOQ of the production schedule to accommodate both internal and external requirements.
11. Analyzing expendable container inventory levels and usage to accommodate alternate shipment activities.
12. Ensuring all WIP in-house and at subcontractor locations meet inventory targets.
13. Interacting with AGS Sales to ensure all PO/contracts with suppliers and subcontractors are valid.
14. Coordinating with all AGS intercompany plants to ensure rack flow is accurate and complements our production schedule.
15. Working with all subcontractors to ensure part flow is accurate and complements our production schedule.
16. Ensuring sufficient racks in-house to support production schedules and customer shipments.

Responsible for ensuring subcontractor requirements are met through effective management of inventory, systems, and resources.

Ensure subcontractor and supplier schedules are sent weekly, and all communication on shipments is generated timely.

Responsible for effectively communicating any problems with meeting subcontractor schedules (including issues related to raw suppliers) to the appropriate contact person at subcontractor locations and internal management levels.

Act as backup for shipping and Master Scheduling.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Comprehensive knowledge of manufacturing and related processes, including customer shipping requirements, production scheduling, and raw materials.
• Grade 12 and five years or more of experience in a computerized materials management/production environment.
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Good computer skills and knowledge of relevant software.

Accessibility: AGS Automotive Systems is proud to support the full inclusion of persons with disabilities as set out in the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005. At AGS, we are committed to ensuring the workplace is free from discrimination. Accommodations for disabilities in relation to the job selection process are available upon request by contacting AGS Human Resources at HR@agsautomotive.com.

Equal Opportunity: As an equal opportunity employer, and in accordance with all applicable legislation, the Company prohibits any form of harassment or discrimination in the workplace. This applies to all aspects of employment. All employees must be treated equally without discrimination based on matters such as race, citizenship, creed, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, or disability.