Idexcorp

Idexcorp

Materials Planner Scheduler

Farmington, Connecticut

Sponsorship not specified$88k-$132kDetected 2 days ago
Data AnalysisData VisualizationAgileExcelSupply ChainProcurementERPRecruitingCustomer SupportCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMicrosoft OfficeNetSuiteDemand Planning

About the role

  • The Planner plays a critical role in restoring and maintaining minimum safety stock levels across assigned value streams while proactively identifying material, capacity, supplier, and data constraints that could impact customer commitments.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, maintain, and communicate daily and weekly production schedules based on customer demand, available capacity, material availability, labor, routings, changeovers, due dates, and value-stream constraints.
  • Release, maintain, and manage internal work orders from creation through completion, ensuring dates, quantities, routings, and material requirements remain accurate.
  • Partner daily with Buyers to execute, confirm, expedite, and track open purchase orders, including supplier confirmations, promise dates, partial shipments, and exception items.
  • Identify and resolve constraints impacting production schedules, work orders, and replenishment plans, including supplier lead time changes, MOQ or pack-size issues, quality holds, engineering changes, capacity limitations, and material shortages.
  • support improvement of sales order confirmation cycle time to less than 72 hours.
  • Support SIOP and demand review activities by providing accurate supply status, inventory risks, capacity concerns, and recovery actions for assigned value streams.
  • Coordinate with Customer Service to provide accurate order status, recovery plans, and delivery date commitments; support improvement of sales order confirmation cycle time to less than 72 hours.
  • Support inventory accuracy through disciplined transaction management, cycle count follow-up, root cause analysis, and correction of recurring planning or data issues.
  • Partner with Operations, Purchasing, Quality, Engineering, and Customer Service to reduce recurring shortages, improve replenishment discipline, and strengthen standard work for planning processes.

Requirements

  • Experience creating, releasing, and managing production work orders and purchase order requirements.
  • Ability to evaluate material availability, capacity constraints, and inventory risks and translate them into clear action plans.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to align Production, Purchasing, Customer Service, Quality, and Engineering on priorities and recovery actions.
  • Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced manufacturing environment with changing priorities while maintaining accuracy, urgency, and professionalism.
  • drive timely follow-up and escalation where required.

Nice to have

  • Experience in high-mix, low-volume manufacturing with complex routings, variable demand, and a broad SKU base.
  • Exposure to SIOP, capacity planning, finite scheduling, or advanced planning and scheduling tools.
  • Lean or continuous improvement experience, including standard work, daily management, visual controls, problem solving, and root cause corrective action.
  • APICS/ASCM CPIM, CSCP, or related supply chain certification preferred but not required.
  • ERP/MRP: NetSuite preferred, or comparable ERP experience with production work orders, item planning parameters, purchase order requirements, and planning modules.
  • Planning tools: Experience with demand planning, material requirements planning, production scheduling, or advanced planning and scheduling software.
  • Reporting and analysis: Microsoft Excel required
  • Power BI or similar reporting experience preferred.

Skills

  • Experience with demand planning, material requirements planning, production scheduling, or advanced planning and scheduling software.

Compensation

  • The compensation range for this position is $88,200.00 - $132,200.00, depending on experience.

Benefits

  • Our comprehensive U.S. benefit offerings include: Health benefits, 401(k) retirement savings program with company match, PTO, and more.
  • https://www.idexcorp.com/careers/our-benefits-and-rewards/
  • This position may be eligible for performance based bonus plan.
  • Translate demand, min/max, safety stock, and MRP signals into timely internal work orders and external purchase order requirements.
  • Monitor inventory positions against minimum safety stock and replenishment targets
  • Maintain planning master data accuracy in ERP/MRP, including item planning settings, lead times, safety stock, order multiples, reorder points, sourcing information, and planning policies aligned to PFEP.
  • Publish routine reporting on safety stock attainment, replenishment progress, shortage recovery, inventory health, and schedule execution by value stream.

Equal opportunity

  • IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
  • Attention Applicants: If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the
  • Please contact our Talent Acquisition Team at lfcareers@idexcorp.com for assistance with an accommodation.
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