Materials Planner Scheduler

Job Overview

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Location:

Farmington, CT

Shift/

Schedule:

Monday–Friday, 7:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; occasional overtime as business needs require

Reports To:

Director, Supply Chain

The Materials Planner is responsible for translating demand, inventory targets, and production requirements into executable replenishment plans that support customer delivery, inventory health, and operational continuity. This role develops and maintains production schedules, releases and manages internal work orders, coordinates purchase order requirements with Buyers, and ensures replenishment actions are placed, confirmed, tracked, and received on time. The Planner plays a critical role in restoring and maintaining minimum safety stock levels across assigned value streams while proactively identifying material, capacity, supplier, and data constraints that could impact customer commitments.

• Develop, maintain, and communicate daily and weekly production schedules based on customer demand, available capacity, material availability, labor, routings, changeovers, due dates, and value-stream constraints.
• Translate demand, min/max, safety stock, and MRP signals into timely internal work orders and external purchase order requirements.
• Release, maintain, and manage internal work orders from creation through completion, ensuring dates, quantities, routings, and material requirements remain accurate.
• Partner daily with Buyers to execute, confirm, expedite, and track open purchase orders, including supplier confirmations, promise dates, partial shipments, and exception items.
• Monitor inventory positions against minimum safety stock and replenishment targets; prioritize actions to close shortages and reduce risk to customer orders.
• Identify and resolve constraints impacting production schedules, work orders, and replenishment plans, including supplier lead time changes, MOQ or pack-size issues, quality holds, engineering changes, capacity limitations, and material shortages.
• Coordinate with Customer Service to provide accurate order status, recovery plans, and delivery date commitments; support improvement of sales order confirmation cycle time to less than 72 hours.
• Maintain planning master data accuracy in ERP/MRP, including item planning settings, lead times, safety stock, order multiples, reorder points, sourcing information, and planning policies aligned to PFEP.
• Support SIOP and demand review activities by providing accurate supply status, inventory risks, capacity concerns, and recovery actions for assigned value streams.
• Monitor delivery performance, critical shortages, aged work orders, open purchase orders, and schedule adherence; drive timely follow-up and escalation where required.
• Publish routine reporting on safety stock attainment, replenishment progress, shortage recovery, inventory health, and schedule execution by value stream.
• Support inventory accuracy through disciplined transaction management, cycle count follow-up, root cause analysis, and correction of recurring planning or data issues.
• Partner with Operations, Purchasing, Quality, Engineering, and Customer Service to reduce recurring shortages, improve replenishment discipline, and strengthen standard work for planning processes.

• Three or more years of materials planning, production planning, inventory planning, supply planning, or procurement support experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Working knowledge of MRP principles, including lead times, order policies, demand signals, safety stock, min/max levels, reorder points, and order multiples.
• Experience creating, releasing, and managing…