
Manufacturing Planner / Inventory Analyst
- East Rutherford, NJ
- $66,600-104,610 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Production Planning utilizing SAP and Excel.
- Create and control production schedules based on customer orders and delivery dates.
- Coordinate requirements with Production team members, including directing activities and establishing priorities as necessary.
- Coordinate material requirements to ensure a controlled flow of required materials.
- Proactively catch and prevent future supply gaps while escalating issues as necessary.
- New product introductions – manufacturing planning and pilot run coordination.
- Support of engineering changes and PPAP activities.
- Track and Investigate inventory movement through SAP and WMI systems.
- Research root causes of inventory discrepancies and take action to correct discrepancies and to fix transaction errors.
- Expedite component as needed.
- Document problems, resolve when possible and follows up with the appropriate resource groups to ensure problems are corrected.
- Coordinate RMA’s with suppliers
- Verify cycle counts and identify root causes of discrepancies in collaboration with finance.
- Support Quality initiatives of the facility and Company as a whole.
- Participate in ASME Compliance as a Certified Individual (CI).
- Maintain work area in a clean orderly manner (5S).
- Timely customer service responses
- Develops, revises, and adheres to Standard Work
- Daily & Weekly reporting
- Other duties as assigned
- Associate’s degree in a related field is preferred with a minimum of 1 year of experience or equivalent work experience in a Manufacturing Planning and Inventory environment.
- Willing and able to be trained and maintain company forklift driver certification.
- Proficient Microsoft office computer skills with the ability to learn the following areas:
- Production / Capacity planning -SAP
- Inventory planning – minimum run quantities, store sizes, safety stock levels, lead times, etc.
- MRP – Routings, BOM’s, component stocking
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Executes with a sense of urgency related to work and impact on operations of the facility.
- Ability to communicate at all levels of the organization.
- Bilingual is beneficial but not required.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks with changing priorities simultaneously
- Culture: Recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
- Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal opportunities to work on projects cross-company.
- Social Impact: Four employee-led and self-directed Business Resource Groups; Paid volunteer day annually; Employees share their time, skills and talent with charities and nonprofit organizations across the U.S. and around the globe.