Engineering Change & Materials Planner

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Position: Engineering Change & Materials Planner

Location: Hillsboro, OR (onsite)

Schedule: Monday - Friday Days, start time between 6:00 - 8:00 am

Job Description

When you join Thermo Fisher Scientific, you will do meaningful work. You will have chances for ongoing growth and learning in a culture that supports your development. With revenues exceeding $40 billion and the largest R&D investment in the industry, we provide our people with resources and chances to create significant impacts worldwide.

Discover Impactful Work

As a Engineering Change & Materials Planner, you will have a key responsibility in maintaining alignment between product updates led by engineering and the global supply chain planning process. You will work alongside Engineering, Data Management, Suppliers, and cross-functional Supply Chain teams to integrate Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) into demand and supply plans, ensuring precision, efficiency, and smooth operation across multiple locations and systems.

A Day in the Life

• Serve as the Supply Chain planning representative for all ECO (Engineering Change Order)-related activities, ensuring changes are coordinated within demand and supply planning processes.
• Participate in change management meetings, providing analysis and input on forecast, inventory, and supply impacts.
• Communicate change requirements and planning adjustments with suppliers and internal collaborators to ensure alignment and timely execution.
• Implement product and demand changes within the MRP system; monitor inventory consumption and recommend planning adjustments as needed.
• Collaborate with global supply chain and operations teams to coordinate multi-site planning for changes guided by engineering.
• Assess and communicate cost implications, implementation risks, and supply chain impacts of ECO adoption, providing recommendations to support business objectives.

Keys to Success

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience
• 2+ years of experience supporting engineering change management (ECO/ECR processes) within a manufacturing, supply chain, or materials planning environment.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional stakeholders across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, sourcing, or planning functions.
• Hands-on experience working with ERP/MRP systems and Bill of Materials (BOM) management.
• Experience supporting material transitions, inventory impacts, supplier coordination, and engineering change implementation activities.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Solid knowledge of demand planning, ECO/ECN/ECR procedures, and change control within an international supply chain environment.
• Ability to analyze demand/supply impacts of product changes and translate them into actionable planning strategies.
• Familiarity with lean concepts and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to influence cross-functional and global collaborators.
• Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to adapt to changing priorities.

Benefits

We offer competitive benefits, 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!

Our Mission focuses on empowering customers to improve health, cleanliness, and safety worldwide. We are a single team of more than 120,000+ colleagues who uphold values of Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement. We collaborate to speed up research, solve difficult scientific issues, promote new technology, and support patients requiring care. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where different experiences, origins, and perspectives are respected.