Materials Planner

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Full Time Wisconsin-Antigo, Antigo, WI, US

Reports To: General Manager

• Coordinate and manage multiple production schedules cooperatively with manufacturing personnel, purchasing personnel, and various vendors based on material status and customer needs.
• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with vendors, suppliers, and internal teams utilizing communication methods such as on-site visits, video conferencing, telephone calls, and email messaging.
• Analyze sales order releases to confirm planning capacity and materials requirements.
• Enter new customer orders and monitor throughout the process, including communicating delays to Sales.
• Monitor capacity and communicate bottlenecks or excess capacity to the department manager and production manager.
• Maintain inventory levels within company goal levels.
• Monitor product fluctuations, forecast future usage, and plan accordingly.
• Place purchase orders for production materials and expedite delivery as needed.
• Maintain price lists on an ongoing basis as raw material changes occur.
• Furnish quotes to Sales for purchased products.
• Issue purchase orders to vendors and manage logistics of purchased products, including working with freight brokers and managing and submitting import documents as needed.
• Negotiations with suppliers including logistics
• Review and sign contracts with vendors.
• Maintain order controls in ERP.
• Prepares and submits reports to team on analysis of production lines; including margins, inventory turns, DIOH, and company cost of carrying inventory
• Perform other related tasks as needed.

• Ability to communicate in both the written and spoken language of English to a level that will allow the safe and effective performance of the job.
• Ability to work from and understand verbal instructions.
• Ability to handle stress in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to successfully manage multiple projects and deadlines.
• Ability to effectively work with resource planning system, spreadsheets, word processing documents, and other applicable computer systems and software, especially Microsoft Excel.
• Excellent interpersonal, listening, and negotiation skills.
• Strong critical thinking, troubleshooting, and analytical skills.
• Capacity to calculate, analyze, and track figures and make competent decisions based on those figures.
• Communication, teamwork, and customer service skills are critically important as the employee is expected to work directly and indirectly with all levels of employees, customers, and outside vendors.
• Consistently demonstrate a high level of responsibility and accountability in assigned tasks.

• Knowledge of supply chain principles and processes typically acquired through the completion of a Bachelor's degree in Material Planning, Supply Chain Management, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

• Constant walking, talking, hearing, sitting, standing, repetitive motions, movements requiring fine motor skills and visual acuity.
• Occasional carrying, reaching, handling, grasping, climbing, pushing, pulling, kneeling, crawling, balancing, stooping.
• Work is typically performed in conditions typical of a warehouse and manufacturing environment though certain tasks/projects may occur outside.
• Safety glasses, steel/composite toed shoes, hearing protection, and high visibility vest required when working in warehouse and manufacturing environments.

• A Commitment to Our Purpose (COMMITTED PEOPLE) – Our mission is to serve and build up our customers, suppliers, communities, and each other,…