Materials Planner II
Listed on 2026-11-04
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Manufacturing / Production
Manufacturing & Industrial Operations, Inventory Control & Analysis
Inside the Role As a Materials Planner, you will play a critical role in ensuring uninterrupted production by planning and coordinating the flow of materials, components, and inventory throughout the manufacturing operation. Working closely with suppliers, production, purchasing, and logistics teams, you will balance customer demand, inventory levels, and production schedules to ensure the right materials are available at the right time.
This position is ideal for professionals with experience in materials planning, production planning, inventory management, supply chain operations, MRP/ERP systems, demand planning, and manufacturing environments. Posting Information We provide a scheduled posting end date to assist our candidates with their application planning. While this date reflects our latest plans, it is subject to change, and postings may be extended or removed earlier than expected.
We Take Care of Our Team Position offers a starting salary range of $78,000 – $100,000 USD Pay offered dependent on knowledge, skills, and experience.
Benefits include
- annual bonus program
- 401kcompany contribution with company match up to 6% as well as non-elective company contribution of3 – 7% depending on age
- starting at 4 weeks paid vacation
- 13+ calendar holidays
- 8 weeks paid parental leave
- employee assistance program
- comprehensive healthcare plans and wellness programs
- onsite fitness (at some locations)
- tuition assistance and volunteer paid time off
- short-termand long-term disability plans
- Schedule productive material required to achieve the production plans, activities or processes.
- Monitor and manage material and supply of inventories. Assess production data, including volume produced, consumption of raw materials and quality control measures.
- Estimate/forecast materials requirements. Confer with department supervisors to assess progress and discuss the changes needed.
- Requisition and maintain inventories of materials, supplies and equipment necessary to meet production demands.
- Monitor inventory to standard metrics, including turns, target inventory and excess/obsolete disposition practices
- Revise production schedules when required due to labor or material shortages, backlogs or other interruptions, collaborating with management, production, engineering and work orders.
- Monitor shipping and receiving operations of the facility, distribute production schedules, and work orders to departments.
- Escalation point of contact to supply base, internal partners/departments and Corporate management to ensure assembly production to plan.
- Establishes high level of interaction with Canton PDC to ensure successful supply chain flow.
- Supports the implementation of the RPPL Materials tasks/objectives during the launch of the new products.
- Coordinate accounting activities for purpose of invoice corrections/transmittal information, price corrections, and material cost calculations.
High level of attention to detail needed.
Minimum Required Knowledge andExperience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, or related…
Daimler Truck North America is committed to employing a diverse workforce and providing an environment where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, age, marital status, family relationship, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression (including transgender and transitioning status), genetic information, or veteran status.
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