Materials Planner

Department: Materials/Inventory

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: US - Mississippi - Olive Branch

Reporting To: John Perry

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Maintains weekly schedules for the assembly functions. Prepares and distributes daily production information as required. 
• Maintains and verifies counts against inventory control documents and makes adjustments. 
• Coordinates and distributes manufacturing schedules. 
• Communicates with internal customers.  
• Manages work-in-progress inventory levels. 
• Reviews inventory items using current item forecasts, MRP reports, backlogs, and inventory levels. 
• Prepares and issues various reports. 
• Performs other related duties as required or assigned. 

• None. 

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

• Effectively communicates information and responds to questions in person-to-person and small group situations with customers, clients, the general public, and other employees of the organization.  
• Maintains confidentiality and uses discretion with business information. 
• Reads and understands documents such as policy manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. 
• Writes routine reports and correspondence. 
• Adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides numbers (using currency and other forms of measurement). 
• Utilizes common-sense understanding in order to carry out written, oral, or diagrammed instructions. 
• Deals with problems involving several known variables in situations of routine nature. 
• Plans the time, method, manner, and/or performance sequence of own work; may also occasionally assist in planning work assignments performed by others within a limited area of operation. 
• Frequently makes decisions of both minor and major importance, which may affect the work operations of other employees and/or clientele to a moderate degree. 
• Completes some moderately repetitive tasks. 
• Uses noncomplex machines and equipment (adding machines, calculators, copy/fax machines, etc.). 

• Equivalent of four years of high school (required). 
• Three to five years of relevant education or experience in quality control, logistics, or a related area (required). 

• Intermediate: Spreadsheet, database. 
• Basic: Alphanumeric data entry, word processing/typing. 

• None. 

• While performing the functions of this job, the employee is: 
• Continually required to stand and walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. 
• Occasionally required to sit. 
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. 
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. 

• This position is not subjected to harmful environmental conditions. 
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. 

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