Materials Planner

About the company

Canopy Aerospace & Defense

Aviation & aerospace · 2 to 10 employees

What you'll do

• Analyze production demand, MRP requirements, inventory positions, open supply, allocations, and consumption trends to identify current and future material exposure.
• Maintain a forward-looking material risk view across the planning horizon and communicate shortages or supply gaps to Production Planners before they affect work-order execution.
• Translate production requirements into clear quantities and required-by dates for Purchasing; monitor whether supplier commitments and open PO dates support the production plan.
• Partner with Production Planners on material constraints while preserving the Planner's ownership of work-order readiness, release, and schedule decisions.
• Analyze recurring shortages and recommend systemic corrective actions such as planning-parameter changes, safety-stock adjustments, lead-time updates, or process improvements.
• Review and recommend ERP/MRP material-planning parameters including safety stock, min/max levels, planning lead times, lot sizing/order quantities, make/buy designation, UOM, commodity classification, and other approved planning fields.
• Coordinate new-item creation workflow across requesting functions and required contributors; verify required planning/master-data fields are complete before item activation.
• Perform or coordinate duplicate-item checks and support consistent item descriptions, classifications, commodity codes, and planning attributes in accordance with company governance.
• Monitor open item-creation requests, aging, missing inputs, and handoffs; escalate stalled requests to the appropriate functional owner.
• Analyze historical consumption and future demand to support inventory policy, safety-stock, stocking, and build-ahead recommendations.
• Partner with Inventory Control to validate on-hand visibility, inventory availability, and material-master issues that affect planning signals.
• Partner with Purchasing on supply-risk visibility while leaving supplier selection, negotiation, PO placement, commercial terms, and supplier relationship management with Purchasing.
• Support ERP/MRP implementation, data cleanup, planning-standardization, dashboards, and continuous-improvement initiatives related to material planning.

What you need

• 5+ years of material planning, production planning, production control, inventory planning, master-data, or related manufacturing experience preferred.
• Experience in aerospace, defense, high-mix/high-volume job-shop, or other regulated manufacturing environment preferred.
• Working knowledge of ERP/MRP concepts including demand, supply, lead time, safety stock, inventory, BOMs, and item-master data.
• Experience with Epicor, JobBOSS, or comparable manufacturing ERP preferred.
• Strong Excel/data-analysis skills and comfort working with large material, inventory, and demand datasets.
• Equivalent combination of education and relevant manufacturing experience will be considered.
• Experience in high-mix, low-volume manufacturing environments
• Exposure to AS9100 or other regulated manufacturing standards
• Working knowledge of Epicor ERP
• Familiarity with CNC machining, fabrication, or aerospace assemblies
• Experience supporting production in a growth-stage or startup environment
• Must have professional working proficiency reading, writing, and speaking English
• Ability to work in office, lab, and manufacturing environments with occasional exposure to noise, chemicals, dust, industrial equipment, and temperature variations
• Ability to sit or stand for extended periods while working at a computer workstation
• Frequent use of hands and fingers for data entry, keyboarding, and mouse use
• Ability to view computer screens for prolonged periods
• Ability to communicate effectively in person, by phone, and via email
• Ability to use a computer to complete assignments

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