Materials Planner II

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As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe, or helping find cures for cancer.

A Day in the Life:

• Develop and update the detailed schedule by work center in Excel based on the Master Plan. Ensure monthly demand, capacity, manufacturing, packaging constraints, and material availability are considered.
• Ensure that the manufacturing process is balanced to guarantee resource usage optimization.
• Enter and maintain manufacturing orders in the different systems with valid due dates.
• Coordinate the new product activities and/ or projects into the detailed schedule.
• Distribute manufacturing and packaging schedules and communicate changes to manufacturing documentation, manufacturing team leaders, and leaders.
• Negotiate and communicate effectively with all support areas to guarantee optimum resource utilization.
• Monitor the schedule to ensure its completion within the Lead Times established in the system.
• Participate in the decision-making process regarding schedule changes.
• Daily monitor and report performance to schedule and order completion due dates.
• Identify potential impacts on schedules and provide feedback and recommendations to Supply Chain and Manufacturing leaders on developing strategies to achieve results.

• Manage inventory levels to avoid any obsolescence and the Cycle Count process to ensure accuracy.
• Monitors production WIP to avoid expiration and communicate immediately any expiration risk.
• Communicate any rejection of any WIP or Finished goods for immediate disposition.
• Ensure that raw material and packaging components are available on time to support requirements.
• Analyze MRP action messages to ensure raw materials and packaging components are available at the right time and in quantities to support the production plan.
• Coordinate changes in delivery dates with vendors.
• Delineate appropriate inventory strategies to manage adequate inventory levels to support Working Capital targets. Monitor expired, obsolete, and rejected material to avoid impact on the operations area.
• Anticipate and communicate any material shortages before the official publication of the detailed production schedule.
• Expedite release of material needed to support the manufacturing plan.
• Manage material conversions to minimize obsolescence, reduce impact on customer service, and comply with regulatory requirements.
• Enter and update purchase order into the planning system to comply with customer negotiated needs.
• Develop a priority schedule for the receiving area to optimize space utilization and ensure compliance with production schedule.
• Periodic review and validation of item master data information such as lead times, scrap factor, lot size, order quantities, safety stocks, yields.

• Periodic update of procedures related to production and materials planning process.
• Participate in Daily Operation Tiers meetings, Department Tiers and Weekly meeting, Project meetings, Client's meeting, and Business meeting as required.
• Review and communicate any routing changes and standard hours that will affect the capacity information.
• Provide information to our customers when required.
• Support Manager in any other special task or activities.

• Challenge processes to improve cost-effectiveness of material flow to the production areas.
• Provide materials projection for strategic planning and development

Keys to Success:

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited higher learning institution required, with studies in Business, Operations, Supply Chain or related field (equivalent combinations of education, training, and relevant work experience may be considered).
• 1+ years of materials planning and purchasing experience required.
• Knowledge and understanding of Supply Chain concepts and application
• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (oral & written)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
• MRP ERP experience is a must.
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently under pressure and react quickly to changing priorities
• APICS CPIM/CSCP certification or certification in progress preferable

Benefits:

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. We will gladly provide reasonable accommodations covered under the ADA.