Materials Planner: Drive On-Time Production

Sechan Electronics, Inc.; Lititz (Lancaster County); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Sechan Electronics, Inc. in Lititz, PA, seeks a Materials Planner to support Senior Demand Planners by ensuring materials are available to meet contractual deliveries and expedite shop floor work.

Responsibilities include analyzing MRP data to generate purchase requisitions, tracking shortages, coordinating with suppliers and the purchasing team, and conducting regular inventory analyses to prevent downtime and meet program schedules.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business or related fields.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in planning or manufacturing environment.
• Experience coordinating schedules between departments to expedite urgent customer need.

Responsibilities

• Analyze project and standard MRP data to generate accurate purchase requisitions utilizing ERP software and exceptions reporting.
• Develops and maintain list of urgently needed purchase part shortages from attrition on the shop floor, working with the suppliers and purchasing team to resolve issues quickly and expedite materials through receiving, inspection and to the shop orders when they arrive.
• Regular review and communication to the project team of all project shortages to support on time delivery throughout the life of the program.
• Regular inventory analysis within projects to ensure project inventory is used before expiration, conforms to the revision required for the program, and non-conforming materials are addressed promptly and potentially reworked to usable material or scrapped.
• Coordinate planning actions for engineering changes including purchase order, inventory and shop order maintenance.
• Forecast material shortages based on a dynamic build schedule and purchasing lead time fluctuations to minimize and prevent production downtime
• Track and communicate daily the production and movement of critical assembly shortages.
• Perform physical administrative support tasks involved in shop order maintenance such as red-lining changes, resolving shop floor transaction and supporting move ticket exceptions.
• Manages tinning process including outside operations tinning and internal tinning of gold-lead components.
• Reserves upcoming shop orders and prepares them for stockroom kitting
• Lead meetings for planning and operation team related to the scheduling of constrained work centers and scheduling of work in those areas.

Skills

Numerical reasoning

Written & oral communication

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or related fields

Tools

ERP systems

Databases

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Sechan Electronics, Inc. in Lititz, PA, seeks a Materials Planner to support Senior Demand Planners by ensuring materials are available to meet contractual deliveries and expedite shop floor work.

Responsibilities include analyzing MRP data to generate purchase requisitions, tracking shortages, coordinating with suppliers and the purchasing team, and conducting regular inventory analyses to prevent downtime and meet program schedules.