Materials Planner

About Us:

Panelmatic, Inc. was founded in 1957 in Youngstown, OH to serve manufacturing industries with the design and building of custom electrical, instrument, and pneumatic control panels. Our business has sufficiently grown over the years to support expansion for our clients. We have produced control packages for many of America's top corporations in the chemical, environmental, food, pulp and paper, rubber, petroleum, pharmaceutical, glass, metals, and utilities industries. We also deliver equipment for use worldwide. Our rigorous methodology assures compliance with domestic and international standards. We can meet the needs of our diverse clientele from start to finish through sales, design, fabrication, testing, and delivery.

Since 1957, we have been known for our high-quality, custom-built control packages, our comprehensive service, and our technological and manufacturing expertise. This expertise assures you of our ability to handle the largest and most complex packages quickly and efficiently.

Job Summary:

The Material Planner is responsible for ensuring system parameters are set up appropriately to maintain our stocking positions and inventory goals while ensuring we meet our production schedules and deliver our customer orders on time.

This role coordinates with various departments including Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply, Engineering, Planning, and Operations.

Job Duties:

• Ensure material availability in meeting daily production demands to achieve goals and metrics.
• Analyze daily material status and present shortages to customers in daily conference calls.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure order planning and fulfillment.
• Participates in daily production meetings
• Mitigate material shortages through internal and external escalation.
• Perform unplanned component demand verification and upload.
• Manage material requirement changes and dispositions
• Ensures correct material is being used, matching the BOM. If there is a substitution, ensure all substitution or dispositioning activity is done timely and accurately to ensure property inventory accounting
• Perform ROP (re-order point) sizing activities monthly.
• Works with buyers and production planners to ensure all materials are available and located prior to work orders being moved to production