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Materials Planner - Intermediate
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What they do
A Media Planner or Buyer advises companies and clients on using media effectively for advertising and marketing. Identifies target audience for advertising, researches customer demographics and cost options for different advertising outlets; reviews media programming and recommends a strategy for ad placements.
$74,723 / year median in Texas
+3% projected growth
Job Description
Adecco is hiring immediately for a Materials Planner with a local client in Austin, TX. Pay is $29.00 per hour.
Shift:
Monday-Friday 8am - 5pm OT when required Key Responsibilities- 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.