Aerospace Material Planner - Demand & ERP Mastery

Canopy A&D; Ontario (CA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company paid medical insurance

401K company match

Paid sick leave

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Discretionary bonuses

Job summary

Canopy A&D is seeking a Material Planner to ensure accurate material requirements, planning parameters, and timely visibility of supply risk to support production. The role interfaces with Production Planning, Purchasing, Inventory Control, Engineering, Quality, and Operations, emphasizing planning over purchasing.

You will translate production plans into material requirements, monitor supplier commitments, and help optimize ERP/MRP parameters while coordinating new-item activations and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of material planning, production planning, production control, inventory planning, master-data, or related manufacturing experience preferred.
• Experience in aerospace, defense, high-mix/high-volume job-shop, or other regulated manufacturing environment preferred.
• Working knowledge of ERP/MRP concepts including demand, supply, lead time, safety stock, inventory, BOMs, and item-master data.
• Experience with Epicor, JobBOSS, or comparable manufacturing ERP preferred.
• Strong Excel/data-analysis skills and comfort working with large material, inventory, and demand datasets.

Responsibilities

• Analyze production demand, MRP requirements, inventory positions, open supply, allocations, and consumption trends to identify current and future material exposure.
• Maintain a forward-looking material risk view across the planning horizon and communicate shortages or supply gaps to Production Planners before they affect work-order execution.
• Translate production requirements into clear quantities and required-by dates for Purchasing; monitor whether supplier commitments and open PO dates support the production plan.
• Partner with Production Planners on material constraints while preserving the Planner's ownership of work-order readiness, release, and schedule decisions.
• Analyze recurring shortages and recommend systemic corrective actions such as planning-parameter changes, safety-stock adjustments, lead-time updates, or process improvements.
• Review and recommend ERP/MRP material-planning parameters including safety stock, min/max levels, planning lead times, lot sizing/order quantities, make/buy designation, UOM, commodity classification, and other approved planning fields.
• Coordinate new-item creation workflow across requesting functions and required contributors; verify required planning/master-data fields are complete before item activation.
• Perform or coordinate duplicate-item checks and support consistent item descriptions, classifications, commodity codes, and planning attributes in accordance with company governance.
• Monitor open item-creation requests, aging, missing inputs, and handoffs; escate stalled requests to the appropriate functional owner.
• Analyze historical consumption and future demand to support inventory policy, safety-stock, stocking, and build-ahead recommendations.
• Partner with Inventory Control to validate on-hand visibility, inventory availability, and material-master issues that affect planning signals.
• Partner with Purchasing on supply-risk visibility while leaving supplier selection, negotiation, PO placement, commercial terms, and supplier relationship management with Purchasing.
• Support ERP/MRP implementation, data cleanup, planning-standardization, dashboards, and continuous-improvement initiatives related to material planning.

Skills

Material planning

ERP/MRP concepts

Excel/data analysis

Aerospace manufacturing

Epicor ERP

JobBOSS ERP

Tools

Epicor ERP

JobBOSS

Job description

Canopy A&D is seeking a Material Planner to ensure accurate material requirements, planning parameters, and timely visibility of supply risk to support production. The role interfaces with Production Planning, Purchasing, Inventory Control, Engineering, Quality, and Operations, emphasizing planning over purchasing.

You will translate production plans into material requirements, monitor supplier commitments, and help optimize ERP/MRP parameters while coordinating new-item activations and