Hybrid Materials Planner for Production & Inventory

Daimler Truck; Tooele (UT); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

Daimler Truck North America is seeking a production planning professional to oversee material flow and scheduling in a hybrid work environment. You will partner with operations, supply chain, and cross-functional teams to maintain production continuity and optimize inventories for on-time parts delivery.

The role requires a detail-oriented, analytical candidate with 2–4 years (or 6+ years in lieu of degree) of related experience, ERP/MRP proficiency, and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business or related field with minimum of 2-4 years applicable experience in Business or related field or minimum of 6+ years applicable experience in lieu of degree.
• Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
• Experience in Microsoft Navision or Business Central
• Experience in Paragon/SAP
• Material Requirements Planning (MRP) experience
• Microsoft Office proficiency.
• High oral and written skills
• High level of ability to multi-task

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.
• Escalation point of contact to supply base, internal partners/departments and Corporate management to ensure assembly production to plan.
• Establishes high level of interaction with Canton PDC to ensure successful supply chain flow.
• Supports the implementation of the RPPL Materials tasks/objectives during the launch of the 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.

Skills

Communication

Multitasking

Detail oriented

Problem solving

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management or related field

Tools

ERP systems

Microsoft Navision/Business Central

Paragon/SAP

Microsoft Office

PowerBI

Job description

Daimler Truck North America is seeking a production planning professional to oversee material flow and scheduling in a hybrid work environment. You will partner with operations, supply chain, and cross-functional teams to maintain production continuity and optimize inventories for on-time parts delivery.

The role requires a detail-oriented, analytical candidate with 2–4 years (or 6+ years in lieu of degree) of related experience, ERP/MRP proficiency, and strong communication skills.