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Job Title: Materials Planner (Buyer)
Location: Charlotte, NC
Job Overview
The Materials Planner (Buyer) plays a critical role in ensuring a reliable, on-time flow of materials that keeps our customers, production lines, and service operations running seamlessly. In this dynamic distribution environment, you’ll manage the full lifecycle of material planning—placing and maintaining purchase orders, optimizing supply, and partnering closely with suppliers to deliver quality materials when they’re needed most. You will also drive engineering change coordination, enabling smooth, cost-effective transitions between parts while eliminating waste and minimizing operational disruption. Success in this role requires sharp analytical skills, proactive communication, and the ability to stay composed and decisive in a fast-paced setting. Working cross-functionally, you’ll help solve supply chain challenges, enhance planning efficiency, and contribute to strategic initiatives such as a global SAP implementation. This role provides meaningful visibility across the organization and the opportunity to make a tangible, lasting impact on our global operations.
Responsibilities
Job Title: Materials Planner (Buyer)
Location: Charlotte, NC
Job Overview
The Materials Planner (Buyer) plays a critical role in ensuring a reliable, on-time flow of materials that keeps our customers, production lines, and service operations running seamlessly. In this dynamic distribution environment, you’ll manage the full lifecycle of material planning—placing and maintaining purchase orders, optimizing supply, and partnering closely with suppliers to deliver quality materials when they’re needed most. You will also drive engineering change coordination, enabling smooth, cost-effective transitions between parts while eliminating waste and minimizing operational disruption. Success in this role requires sharp analytical skills, proactive communication, and the ability to stay composed and decisive in a fast-paced setting. Working cross-functionally, you’ll help solve supply chain challenges, enhance planning efficiency, and contribute to strategic initiatives such as a global SAP implementation. This role provides meaningful visibility across the organization and the opportunity to make a tangible, lasting impact on our global operations.
Responsibilities
- Plan and manage purchased parts and service parts requirements to meet production schedules and variable customer demand.
- Place, maintain, and adjust purchase orders for raw materials, ensuring accurate data in the ERP system and timely updates to quantities, due dates, and order status.
- Monitor inventory levels and material flow, making proactive decisions to release, cancel, or defer work based on demand, capacity, and production objectives.
- Collaborate with suppliers to ensure on-time delivery, expedite or defer shipments as needed, and resolve issues impacting material supply.
- Facilitate engineering changes (ECNs) by coordinating effectivity dates, updating bills of material, and managing inventory transitions to minimize scrap and cost impact.
- Support cross-functional problem-solving, including Accounts Payable discrepancies, pricing issues, and supplier-related challenges.
- Analyze and report planning data, preparing monthly and management reports to support decision-making and continuous improvement.
- Represent Production Planning in meetings, communicating updates and ensuring alignment across operations, engineering, and supply chain teams.
- High School Diploma or GED
- 3 years experience working in a production / manufacturing environment
- 3 years of purchasing experience and managing suppliers
- 3 years of experience in negotiating capabilities suppliers
- 2 years of experience in hitting cost reduction targets and project implementation
- 2 years of experience with MRP/ERP, JIT, or Kanban[AP1]
- Solid understanding of purchasing, planning, operations, and quality control processes that drive supply chain performance.
- Proven ability to manage multiple suppliers while maintaining accuracy and oversight across large SKU and part number portfolios.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook to analyze data, build reports, and communicate effectively.
- Strong capability in monitoring inventory health—identifying shortages, preventing stockouts, and ensuring operational and aftermarket readiness.
- Experience owning key performance metrics, including FPSL (First Pass Service Level), PDBL (Past Due Backlog), and OTS (On-Time Shipments).
- Strong mathematical skills paired with clear, effective written and verbal communication.
- Bachelor’s degree
- Experience with SAP
- Purchasing or Material Certifications and/or membership
- Manufacturing or distribution experience
- This position is fully onsite in Charlotte, NC