Material Planner — Optimize Inventory & On-Time Delivery

Yazaki North America; El Paso (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive compensation

401K match

Tuition assistance

Generous holiday schedule

Job summary

Yazaki North America is seeking a Material Planner to join the Production Control team in El Paso, TX. The role focuses on coordinating inventory and delivery, working with manufacturing and internal teams to meet customer needs.

The candidate should have a business/Supply Chain background, strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills to drive efficiency and accuracy in production planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, Supply Chain Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience preferred.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills to support customers and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage pipeline inventory to support customer requirements while maintaining target inventory levels and minimizing extraordinary costs.
• Issue timely orders to manufacturing and coordinate timing with internal departments.
• Manage premium freight, obsolescence, balance-out activities, and customer delivery requirements.
• Act as a liaison between customers, manufacturing, and internal teams to resolve delivery issues and communicate potential impacts.
• Support engineering changes, customer requests, reporting, forecasting, and required Production Control activities.
• Represent Production Control at customer and manufacturing meetings and escalate issues when necessary.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business / Supply Chain

Job description

Yazaki North America is seeking a Material Planner to join the Production Control team in El Paso, TX. The role focuses on coordinating inventory and delivery, working with manufacturing and internal teams to meet customer needs.

The candidate should have a business/Supply Chain background, strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills to drive efficiency and accuracy in production planning.