Associate Material Planner

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Here at Haworth, our members enjoy benefits from their first day of employment including:

• 4 weeks paid time off and an option to purchase an additional week
• Priority Health Insurance
• Newly renovated on-site gym open 24 hours
• 401k Benefit - If you contribute 6% of your annual salary, Haworth will contribute up to 7%
• Annual bonus programs
• Company provided Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability & Life Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement program
• 8 hours of paid volunteer time off
• Zero waste to landfill company which provides personal on-site recycling drop-off

Job Overview

We are currently looking for a Material Planner to join our team in Holland, MI.

As a Material Planner, you will:

Perform basic planning functions to ensure purchased materials are in place to support manufacturing process and/or optimizes constraints in manufacturing site to support order fulfillment.

Essential Functions

• Manages inventory of assigned manufactured parts and/or purchased domestic parts to ensure material is available to support customer requirements while maintaining financial inventory objectives.
• Regularly reviews and understands work center and plant capacity requirements to ensure customer demands can be met.
• Applies appropriate optimization methodologies to balance service levels, inventory, and resource utilization.
• Develops and schedules workflow for each department and operation according to pre-established manufacturing sequences and lead times to produce executable schedule.
• Maintains database for manufactured and or purchased parts to ensure successful processing of customer and supplier demands throughout item’s material list.
• Coordinates transportation between plants, transit to customers, receiving, and work centers to meet business needs.
• Monitors excess inventory, end-of-life, and lifetime buy analysis. Coordinates disposition of excess material and facilitates sale and disposal of usable material to eliminate obsolete materials.
• Performs other duties within scope as assigned.
• Must be able to perform all essential job function with/without accommodation.
• Ability to effectively use office automation, communication, software, and tools used in Haworth office environment.

Ideally You Have Demonstrated The Following;

• Knowledge and practical application of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system(s); prefer Systems, Applications, Processes (SAP) ERP knowledge.
• Ability to prioritize work activities based on emergent needs of business.
• Just In Time (JIT) concepts, theory of constraints, and lean philosophy.
• Supply chain integration touch points from supplier through manufacturing.

Required Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor Degree or equivalent in relevant field of study (recent college grad)
• Education Equivalency: Associate Degree plus 2 years related exp OR 4 years related exp

Work Experience:

• No professional experience
• Military Equivalency: https://www.mynextmove.org/vets/find/military

Preferred Qualifications

• Material planning work experience preferred.
• Haworth experience preferred.