WorkSmart Staffing
http://www.worksmartstaffing.com
http://www.worksmartstaffing.com
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Material Planner
9855 Warren H Abernathy Hwy Spartanburg, SC 29301 US
Posted: 05/29/2024
2024-05-29
2024-07-14
Employment Type:
Contract To Hire
Job Category: manufacturing
Job Number: 11826
Job Description
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Material Planner is responsible for ensuring coordination and release of components required to meet production schedules and customer requirements. Also responsible for developing procedures and supporting systems to optimize inventory levels, tracking containers, meeting all packaging needs and optimizing freight.
Essential duties and responsibilities:
• Maintain and develop positive business relationships with a customer's key personnel involved in, or directly relevant to, a logistics activity.
• Develop an understanding of customers' needs and take actions to ensure that such needs are met.
• Manage subcontractor activities, reviewing proposals, developing performance specifications, and serving as liaisons between subcontractors and organizations.
• Develop proposals that include documentation for estimates.
• Review logistics performance with customers against targets, benchmarks, and service agreements.
• Direct availability and allocation of materials, supplies, and finished products.
• Redesign the movement of goods to maximize value and minimize costs.
• Explain proposed solutions to customers, management, or other interested parties through written proposals and oral presentations.
• Direct team activities, establishing task priorities, scheduling and tracking work assignments, providing guidance, and ensuring the availability of resources.
• Perform managerial duties such as hiring and training employees and overseeing facility needs or requirements.
• Collaborate with other departments as necessary to meet customer requirements, to take advantage of sales opportunities or, in the case of shortages, to minimize negative impacts on a business.
• Report project plans, progress, and results.
• Protect and control proprietary materials.
• Stay informed of logistics technology advances and apply appropriate technology to improve logistics processes.
• Develop and implement technical project management tools, such as plans, schedules, and responsibility and compliance matrices.
• Provide project management services, including the provision and analysis of technical data.
• Manage the logistical aspects of product life cycles, including coordination or provisioning of samples, and the minimization of obsolescence.
• Perform system lifecycle cost analysis and develop component studies.
• Plan, organize, and execute logistics support activities, such as maintenance planning, repair analysis, and test equipment recommendations.
• Participate in the assessment and review of design alternatives and design change proposal impacts.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
• Highschool Diploma
• 2 years’ experience as a Material Planner
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Must be able to lift 50 lbs or more with assistance
NICE TO HAVE BUT NOT REQUIRED:
More experience than asked for
THINGS TO CONSIDER:
Family owned company that a treats everyone the same.
WorkSmart is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
In order to be considered for employment, applicants must have authorization to work in the United States.
Our company maintains a zero-tolerance policy for illegal drug use or possession in the workplace. Pre-employment drug screening may be conducted, and employees may be subject to random testing.
The Material Planner is responsible for ensuring coordination and release of components required to meet production schedules and customer requirements. Also responsible for developing procedures and supporting systems to optimize inventory levels, tracking containers, meeting all packaging needs and optimizing freight.
Essential duties and responsibilities:
• Maintain and develop positive business relationships with a customer's key personnel involved in, or directly relevant to, a logistics activity.
• Develop an understanding of customers' needs and take actions to ensure that such needs are met.
• Manage subcontractor activities, reviewing proposals, developing performance specifications, and serving as liaisons between subcontractors and organizations.
• Develop proposals that include documentation for estimates.
• Review logistics performance with customers against targets, benchmarks, and service agreements.
• Direct availability and allocation of materials, supplies, and finished products.
• Redesign the movement of goods to maximize value and minimize costs.
• Explain proposed solutions to customers, management, or other interested parties through written proposals and oral presentations.
• Direct team activities, establishing task priorities, scheduling and tracking work assignments, providing guidance, and ensuring the availability of resources.
• Perform managerial duties such as hiring and training employees and overseeing facility needs or requirements.
• Collaborate with other departments as necessary to meet customer requirements, to take advantage of sales opportunities or, in the case of shortages, to minimize negative impacts on a business.
• Report project plans, progress, and results.
• Protect and control proprietary materials.
• Stay informed of logistics technology advances and apply appropriate technology to improve logistics processes.
• Develop and implement technical project management tools, such as plans, schedules, and responsibility and compliance matrices.
• Provide project management services, including the provision and analysis of technical data.
• Manage the logistical aspects of product life cycles, including coordination or provisioning of samples, and the minimization of obsolescence.
• Perform system lifecycle cost analysis and develop component studies.
• Plan, organize, and execute logistics support activities, such as maintenance planning, repair analysis, and test equipment recommendations.
• Participate in the assessment and review of design alternatives and design change proposal impacts.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
• Highschool Diploma
• 2 years’ experience as a Material Planner
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Must be able to lift 50 lbs or more with assistance
NICE TO HAVE BUT NOT REQUIRED:
More experience than asked for
THINGS TO CONSIDER:
Family owned company that a treats everyone the same.
WorkSmart is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
In order to be considered for employment, applicants must have authorization to work in the United States.
Our company maintains a zero-tolerance policy for illegal drug use or possession in the workplace. Pre-employment drug screening may be conducted, and employees may be subject to random testing.
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