Materials Planner

BARNES; Warren (MI); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

BARNES is seeking a Materials Planner for on-site operations in Warren, MI. You will manage capacity planning, detailed scheduling, and material requisitions while coordinating with production, engineering, and customer service to ensure on-time delivery.

The role requires strong experience in production scheduling, MRP systems, and regulatory compliance, with excellent English communication and problem-solving skills. A BS in Business or related field is preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience in production scheduling and manufacturing or related field.
• Regulatory compliance knowledge (EAR/ITAR) preferred.
• Strong MS Office skills (Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook).
• Organizational and problem-solving abilities.
• MRP system experience in production/material inventory control.
• Understanding of processes and machines used in the business unit.
• Proven ability to interact with peers and management, and drive Lean improvements.
• Excellent written and oral English communication.

Responsibilities

• Plan capacity, schedule, and manage material requisitions and shop floor/inventory control.
• Schedule work for operations/machines and maintain schedule execution considering materials and ship dates.
• Align Master Schedule with booked/forecast Sales and Production Plans; monitor product lines.
• Balance Capacity Plan and adjust schedules with production and materials supervisors.
• Execute detailed scheduling and shop floor control to ensure adherence; monitor performance.
• Collaborate with Engineering on introduction of new parts to production.
• Coordinate changes, cancellations, and customer schedule push-ins/push-outs with CS and production.
• Identify capacity constraints with Estimating and aid in capacity improvements.
• Document process problems with proposed solutions to improve operations.

Skills

Customer relationships

Production scheduling

Regulatory compliance

MRP systems

MS Office

Lean process improvement

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or related field

High school diploma or GED

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Core Responsibilities (Materials Planner Duties):

• Responsible for Capacity Planning, Detail scheduling, Material requisitions and shop floor and inventory control.
• Schedule work for individual operations/machines and develops, maintains and drive schedule execution, considering raw materials and shipping dates of products.
• Ensure alignment of the Master Schedule in relation to booked and forecast Sales/Production Plan. May monitor various product lines.
• Balance the Capacity Plan and communicate needed adjustments to production supervisors and materials supervisors. Alters schedules to meet unforeseen conditions.
• Execute decisions concerning detailed scheduling and shop floor control to maintain schedule adherence. Monitor Performance and correct problems.
• Work with Engineering to manage the introduction of new parts into production.
• Work with customer service and production to on all changes, schedule cancellations, and/or customer schedule push-ins/push-outs.
• Work with estimating to proactively identify capacity constraints and facilitate improving capacity to ensure potential customer demands.
• Identify and document process problems to management and quality with proposed recommended solutions to improve operations.

Qualifications:

• Ability to build and maintain positive customer relationships
• Experience in production scheduling and manufacturing or related field or equivalent work experience
• Prior experience in Regulatory Compliance, Export Compliance (EAR and ITAR)
• Advanced knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Organizational and problem-solving skills.
• MRP system experience in production/material inventory control.
• Knowledge of processes and machines related to products manufactured within given business unit.
• Proven success interacting with peers, senior management and other functional areas.
• Ability to work independently, to multi-task handling simultaneous work assignments and projects, and drive "Lean" process improvements
• Advanced ability to communicate both written and orally in the English language

Education Requirements

• BS Degree in Business or related field is preferred.
• High School Diploma or GED required.

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