SR Materials Analyst - Chattanooga, United States - Gestamp

Description

SR Materials Analyst - Chattanooga, TN / Plant 1

Role Summary

The Sr Materials Planner monitors inventories and ensure that raw material resources conform to production schedules. Determining material standards, creating, and monitoring inventory schedules, coordinating with functional teams, and managing interactions with external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitors the scheduling of incoming production material to ensure adequate inventory levels.
• Reviews weekly release data to include Demand Management, MRP - MAPICS, and Eclipse.
• Monitors suppliers and commercial carriers to ensure that deliveries scheduled are consistently met and any error rectified on a timely basis.
• Open/Register the Customer Scheduling Agreement.
• Monitors and reports receipts, production, scrap, and other inventory-related data on the computer to accurately maintain inventory levels of production material.
• Coordinate and ensure raw Material Analyst team members meet their duties, supporting as needed.
• Confers with other departments to coordinate flow of materials and resolve errors.
• Analyzes cycle count adjustments to ensure accurate inventory accountability and make recommendations to the Materials Manager.
• Writes procedures as directed for Receiving, Material Flow, etc. Assists in training as required.
• Check that the Customer demand is integrating well to the system by ZIDOC, ZLCD, ZSPE.

Knowledge and Education

• Bachelor's in supply chain or related field preferred.
• 3+ years' experience in supply chain, materials management, production control, production scheduling and procurement
• Lean Manufacturing methodologies (Pull system, JIT, SMED, Standardized Work etc.) a plus.
• ERP and MRP experience required; SAP experience required.
• Experience working within automotive component stamping, welding, and paint manufacturing environment strongly preferred.
• Experience working with automotive suppliers.

Key Qualifications/Requirements

• Exceptional computer skills, particular with Excel and Production and Inventory Control Systems
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated high level of interpersonal skills.
• Comfortable managing multiple tasks and competing priorities
• Ability to exercise independent judgment.
• Familiarization with MRP/ERP systems (preferably SAP) and scheduling concepts.

Additional Information

• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to handle, manipulate, or feel objects, tools or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, talk and hear.
• Employee must occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds.
• While performing the duties of the job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so other will understand.
• The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and seek to hire the best candidate regardless of age, beliefs, disability, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.

About us

We are a multi-technology company present in over 20 countries and our team of over 40,000 is made up of 90 different nationalities. They are the driving force of our company, which designs, develops and produces parts for over 900 models of the leading vehicle manufacturers, and enable us to be one of the top suppliers worldwide.

Do you have what it takes to build the future of mobility with us?

- You will be joining a leading international group in the automotive sector with a clear commitment to innovation, a trail-blazer in Industry 4.0 and engaged with ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) criteria.

- This is an opening to build a career in a global environment with many opportunities to grow both professionally and personally by participating and leading innovative and international projects.

- You will find a supportive and friendly environment where the emphasis is on team work, continuous improvement, trust, a dynamic spirit and thinking outside the box, and a passion for a job well done.

- You will be working with highly qualified professionals as Gestamp is committed to the ongoing training of our teams.

Join the Gestamp team