What are the responsibilities and job description for the Materials Planner-Warren, Michigan position at Barnes Group?
Core Responsibilities (Materials Planner Duties):
Qualifications:
Education Requirements
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- 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.
Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.
For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.