Job Description
Material Planner
Location: Vernon, CA 90058
Job Type: Contract to Hire
Schedule: Monday–Friday, 7:00 AM–4:00 PM
Job Type: Contract to Hire
Schedule: Monday–Friday, 7:00 AM–4:00 PM
Pay: $35-$40hr
Position Overview
We are seeking a Material Planner to support the planning and scheduling of customer repairs while ensuring materials, purchasing, and deliveries stay on track. This role works closely with Engineering, Purchasing, Sales, Operations, suppliers, and customers to meet customer requirements and deadlines.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare detailed repair quotations for customer equipment.
- Review inventory and determine expected delivery times.
- Review customer orders for pricing, delivery dates, shipping/billing information, and specifications.
- Communicate with customers and internal teams regarding order status and expedite requests.
- Request supplier quotes and initiate purchase orders.
- Manage incoming and outgoing invoices.
- Coordinate with suppliers on delivery dates, information, and reconciliation.
- Assist with warehouse activities, including receiving, inspection, packaging, and shipping.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications & Skills
- 3–5 years of relevant experience in material planning, manufacturing, industrial engineering, or a similar environment.
- Material Requirements Planning (MRP) experience required.
- Experience with Microsoft Office, including Excel, Outlook, Word, Teams, SharePoint, and Project.
- Ability to effectively plan material availability and production capacity in a complex environment.
- Strong communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to take ownership of responsibilities and follow tasks through to completion.
- SAP experience is preferred but not required.
Additional Information
This is an on-site position with the potential to become permanent based on business needs and candidate performance. No overtime is expected for this role.
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Equal Opportunity Employer:
We are an equal opportunity employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
We are an equal opportunity employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Vernon, CA |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $35–$40 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Billingunmatched
- Calendar Managementunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Consultingunmatched
- Follow Throughunmatched
- Industrial Engineeringunmatched
- Legalunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Materials Planningunmatched
- Materials Requirements Planning (MRP)unmatched
- Microsoft Excelunmatched
- Microsoft Officeunmatched
- Microsoft Outlookunmatched
- Microsoft SharePointunmatched
- Microsoft Wordunmatched
- Order Picking/Packingunmatched
- Pricingunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Purchase Ordersunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Receiving Inspectionunmatched
- Reconciliationunmatched
- SAPunmatched
- Sales Operationsunmatched
- Shipping/Receivingunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Warehousingunmatched
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