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Material Planning Supervisor

Y12
Oak Ridge, TN Full Time
POSTED ON 10/17/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/14/2027

Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: Material Planning Supervisor
Career Level From: Supervisor
Career Level To:
Job Specialty: Production Controls Engineering

What You'll Do

This position leads a team responsible for managing key production material planning and control functions focused on data collection and analysis of information regarding demand forecasting, inventory management, and conducting material resource planning (MRPII) activities to enable optimal inventory levels that meet production’s needs. This role also eads, coordinates, reviews, and/or approves configurations within SAP to meet new/changing business and operational requirements specifically supporting:

  • Discrete and Repetitive Production Methodologies
  • Batch Management, Serial Profile Management, Shop Floor Control, Process Order Management, and Material Staging
  • Supporting Work Center, Routing, Bill of Materials (BOM), and Production Versions
  • Capacity Planning
  • Production Order Execution
  • Alternative and Substitute Materials
  • Capacity Leveling
  • Material movement functions

In addition, this position performs the following responsibilities:

  • Provides the tools and systems necessary to effectively and proactively manage, control, and report on schedule for concurrent deliverables throughout the organization. Additional services include technical leadership for productivity improvement initiatives within the PP&C organization and the metric suite that guides improvement initiatives for other organizations.
  • Provides the technical direction, integration, and leadership for the baseline development, controls, scheduling, analysis, and reporting for execution of all baseline deliverables, modernization efforts, and process development initiatives.
  • Establishes goals, expectations, and priorities, and integrates work within the organization; ensures an appropriate sense of urgency for required completion/delivery dates.
  • Handles all personnel matters associated with direct reports; interviews, hires, or makes hiring recommendations; evaluates performance; coaches, counsels, rewards, and disciplines employees, as appropriate; trains and develops staff.

What You Can Expect

  • Meaningful work and unique opportunities to support missions vital to national and global security
  • Top-notch, dedicated colleagues
  • Generous pay and benefits with a stable organization
  • Career advancement and professional development programs
  • Work-life balance fostered through flexible work options and wellness initiatives

Minimum Job Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree: Minimum 5 years of relevant experience
  • OR 13 or more years of education and/or relevant experience may be considered to satisfy educational and years-of-experience requirements for this posting.

Preferred Job Requirements

  • Master’s degree
  • 3 - 5 years in program planning and/or production control
  • ERP and production control systems experience
  • Project Management experience
  • Proficiency in MS Office software with a focus in Excel (V-lookups, Pivot Tables, advanced formulas)
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Strong verbal, listening, and written communication skills
  • Excellent time management skills
  • Ability to think critically, using logic and reasoning to identify solutions and approaches to problems
  • Ability to cooperate with different departments in a positive manner
  • Strong sense of urgency and ability to meet strong deadlines
  • Systems: SAP, PCS
  • Advanced Reporting – VBA, Macros, Business Objects, Tableau
  • Quality Management (QM), Logistics Execution (LE), and Warehouse Management (WM) skills
  • Comprehensive working knowledge of production systems, concepts, practices, and procedures that govern the production planning and control functions at Y-12
  • In-depth working knowledge of manufacturing processes and weapon quality requirements

Why Y-12?

You get #morethanajob. We encourage employees to achieve a healthy personal balance among home, work and the community. One of the ways we embrace work-life balance is by offering flexible work arrangements that provide alternatives to the traditional workweek, while still meeting business needs. Top talent and personal commitment mean more to our success than any other factors, so we reward our people with the kinds of benefits that make a positive difference in the quality of their lives. Benefits such as: medical plan, prescription drug plan, vision plan, dental plan, employer matched 401(k) savings plan, disability coverage, education reimbursement and many more. Want to stay healthy and fit but hate the cost of a gym membership? Take advantage of one of our onsite workout facilities and eat healthy in our onsite cafeterias. Much more than a workplace, at Y-12, you can build a career that lasts a lifetime.

Notes

The minimum education and experience for the lowest career level in the job posting range are listed under Minimum Job Requirements. Successful candidates hired into a higher career level than the minimum in the range must meet the requirements listed in the job leveling charts for the career level into which they are being hired.


If a range of Career Levels is posted, i.e., Senior Associate to Senior Specialist, internal applicants already in one of the Career Levels would come across at their current Career Level. Internal applicants currently in a lower level Career Level would move to the lowest posted Career Level.

Requires a Q clearance; however all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of their current clearance status. The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q clearance is required.


This position may require entry into the Material Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (10 C.F.R. Part 712), which requires successful competition of a DOE counterintelligence evaluation and may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.


This position may be categorized as a “designated position” identified by 10 C.F.R. Part 709, requiring successful completion of a DOE counterintelligence evaluation that may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.


CNS is a drug-free workplace. Candidates accepting a job offer will be required to pass a pre-placement physical, drug screening and background investigation. As an employee, you may be required to receive and maintain a security clearance from the United States Department of Energy in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive information or matter. U.S. citizenship is a requirement for security clearance applicants. All employees are subject to being randomly selected for drug testing without advance notification.

CNS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on merit and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.

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