Junior Materials Planner​/Service Coordinator; Entry Level

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Junior Materials Planner / Service Coordinator (Entry Level)

Junior Materials Planner / Service Coordinator (Entry Level)

Material Department

Full-time

The Junior Materials Planner / Service Coordinator (Entry Level) supports production and customer requirements by coordinating material planning, supplier releases, logistics execution, customer service activities, and inventory control. This role is responsible for new part setup, bill of materials (BOM) accuracy, customer schedule analysis, SNC ticket management, and shipping passthrough parts to ensure material availability aligns with production schedules while meeting inventory, freight, and customer service objectives.

The Junior Materials Planner / Service Coordinator is expected to lead by example, demonstrating the 5 C’s – Care, Commit, Connect, Communicate, and Celebrate
—while working collaboratively across departments to support operational excellence, supplier performance, and customer satisfaction.

This position is designed to develop core materials planning and service coordination capabilities and prepare the incumbent for advancement into a full Materials Planner role.

• Import and update customer releases daily.
• New part scheduling parameter setups in ERP system.
• Ensure FG inventory accuracy.
• Analyzes customer schedules for mix/volume fluctuation. Identify capacity or lead time violations in releases by creating weekly waterfall charts to proactively flag potential issues.
• Manage assigned parts and their respective suppliers, including problem resolution.
• Analyze MRP weekly or daily and produce supplier releases for repetitive production material.
• Coordinate expedites of production material from suppliers as needed in support of established production requirements.
• Ensure receiving data input based on daily activity.
• Coordinate engineering changes and build schedules with suppliers and production such that customer expectations are met while minimalizing obsolescence exposure.
• Identify potential inventory discrepancies and work closely with the Inventory.
• Analyze to ensure appropriate counter measure is applied.
• Communicate all supply discrepancies to suppliers and appropriate material personnel.
• Documenting such activities on the vendor score card.
• Assist in all inventory activities.
• Minimize the cost of freight for assigned suppliers.
• Track and coordinate returnable dunnage to all assigned suppliers.
• Track and monitor consigned inventory and enter receipts into customer system.
• Customer contact responsible for managing delivery issues 24 hours/day.
• Creates shipping documentation and ASN creation for customer shipments.
• Prepare all customs blank documentation for in/out bound shipments by company trades compliance and customer requirements.
• Responsible for meeting department defined monthly KOI targets.
• Strong inventory discrepancy problem solving skills.
• Manage assigned parts and suppliers, including day-to-day communication and problem resolution.
• Monitor and manage SNC (Supplier Non-Conformance) tickets to ensure timely resolution and communication with internal teams and suppliers.
• Communicate all supply discrepancies to suppliers and appropriate internal material personnel.
• Document supplier issues, corrective actions, and performance impacts on vendor scorecards.
• Serve as customer contact for delivery-related issues, including after-hours escalation as required.
• Ship passthrough parts to customers as required, ensuring accurate documentation, timing, and system transactions.
• Displays a positive attitude towards safety, works safely and follows all the Company's safety policies and procedures.
• Reports all unsafe and unhealthy conditions or acts to management immediately.
• Reports injuries, accidents, illnesses, near misses and property damage immediately to your supervisor.
• Complying with all Health, Safety and Environmental standards in accordance with company policies, the Occupational Health & Safety Act & the Michigan Occupational Health & Safety Act.
• Ensures all employees and visitors have a safe environment in that safety and housekeeping standards are maintained; and all hazards, unsafe actions, or…