Material Planner- Packaging

Position Responsibilities

• Own material readiness status for assigned scope: monitor availability and readiness by module, engine, or project, and maintain a published Ready / At Risk / Short status that planners, operations, and leadership trust as the single material truth.
• Identify constraints before they bite: review material requirements against the production schedule, surface shortages, late deliveries, and missing parts early, and proactively flag upcoming constraints rather than waiting for production to be impacted.
• Maintain the shortage management process: create and maintain shortage lists with expected receipts, owners, and actions; provide daily readiness updates; and drive each item to closure through the defined escalation process — not informal expediting.
• Coordinate readiness — information only: direct priorities to warehouse, kitting, and material coordinators so required materials are picked, staged, and available when needed; verify materials are properly identified and associated with the correct production order. All physical movement is executed by material coordinators and warehouse personnel.
• Chase supply status upstream: work with procurement and suppliers for status on outstanding or delayed material, and feed confirmed dates back into the readiness picture and the planners’ schedule risk view.
• Audit planning parameters on a quarterly cadence: review lead times, order quantities, and safety-stock signals for assigned scope against actual supplier and consumption performance, in coordination with procurement and inventory control — submitting corrections through data governance so the planning data the readiness picture depends on stays true.
• Support recovery and pull-ahead: during schedule recovery, identify material constraints and opportunities to pull work ahead based on what is actually ready, executing material priorities set by the production planner.
• Report and participate on cadence: maintain accurate records of status, shortages, receipts, and actions; represent material readiness in daily production planning meetings with risks and recovery actions.
• Shrink the firefighting: capture recurring shortage causes and feed them to the production planning manager and continuous improvement for prevention — the goal is fewer shortages to chase, quarter over quarter.