Materials Planner

Our client, a Energy Services company, is looking for a Materials Planner for their Austin, TX location.

• Employees may specialize in planning activities involving production control, inventory control, process control, or shop floor control / Material Resources Planning (MRP) integrity
• Maintains SAP Production Order release schedule that provides material on-time to manufacturing and engineering.
• Reschedules and/or completes all production orders as required.
• Increases component availability at time of release by performing pre-shortage analysis.
• Performs production order variance analysis.
• Reviews MRP execution and ensures accuracy of information; reconciles supply and demand; validates master scheduling and/or PDS requirements.
• Reviews and ensures proper disposition of Engineering Change Orders (ECO's). Performs regular system maintenance and audits to ensure system accuracy
• Participates in floor audits with Finance and resolves WIP issues.
• Attends production meetings and provides status on material shortage commit dates.
• Changes "make" level lead times in accordance with reality on the manufacturing floor.
• Works with engineers to manage materials for special engineering projects.
• May work with work centers on shop floor control activities.
• Inventory Control – Analyzes usage data and stock levels to order parts to satisfy service levels; maintains inventory levels per plan and expedites shortages; may forecast spare parts needs.
• Examines material variances, resolves problems where possible, and/or communicates more difficult problems to management.
• Assists in setting up new inventory systems or modifying existing systems, when necessary; assigns appropriate expediting duties to expediters.
• May manage obsolete inventories.
• Process Control – Participates in identifying root cause and corrective action from PCI reporting and metrics, drives cycle counting.

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities