Materials Demand Planner (Supply Chain/Procurement)

Long Beach, CA 90815 (Onsite - *local candidates)

$45-48hr

3-6 month contract to turn permanent based on performance

Full-time: M-F 8am-5pm PST (onsite/1 day remote)

Our client is an American aerospace manufacturing company headquartered in Long Beach, CA. They are developing manufacturing technologies, launch vehicles, and rocket engines for commercial orbital launch services.

**Excellent potential for growth and advancement. Must be local to the area. Not accepting applications from outside the area**

About the Role:

For the Structures Supply Chain, you’ll work cross-functionally to accurately capture material demand, maintain real-time visibility into supply sources and levels, and drive material requirements planning to inform procurement strategy and operations.

What excites you:

• Partner with Sourcing/Procurement, Engineering, Manufacturing, Integration, Test, and Launch organizations to derive material demand from complex multilevel Bill of Materials (BOMs) and schedules that will drive material requirement plans and priorities across multiple vehicle missions and programs.
• Generate material requirement signals and partner with Sourcing and Procurement personnel to develop and action material acquisition strategies.
• Responsible for deriving and incorporating necessary data inputs to drive accurate material demand planning
• Manage the mission-by-mission ‘Clear to Build’ process, providing accurate and real-time visibility into material supply & demand while ensuring alignment between Engineering, Supply Chain and Manufacturing, Test, and Launch.
• Develop material allocation strategies/models for constrained or at-risk materials based on company priorities and supply conditions.
• Quantify material forecasts that will inform Sourcing’s immediate- and medium-term material acquisition strategies.
• Participate in the development of Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) systems and processes within Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) that will ultimately increase automation and fidelity of end-to-end planning operations

What excites us:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, supply chain/operations management or equivalent experience
• 2-15 years in a Material Planning, Demand Planning, Fulfillment Planning a fast-paced manufacturing, aerospace, supply chain, engineering or similar
• Must have experience with Materials Requirements Planning,(MRP) SAP, Oracle, OR similar ERP (E.g., Material Attributes, Demand, Supply, and MRP Environment Inputs)
• Must have understanding of what MRP does pertaining to materials/Demand planning ( What are main components that make MRP work etc)
• Requires knowing how to create a demand forecast and what demand inputs are needed to make MRP work.
• Must have experience to obtain the parts from a team member, obtain the parts, and calculate what parts are short within MRP
• Able to capture material demand, maintain rea-time visibility into supply sources and levels – materials forecasting.
• Experience for deriving and incorporating necessary data inputs to drive accurate material demand planning
• Must have intermediate Excel experience ( Data manipulation, able to support integration from excel to ERP, pulling reports, etc.)
• Must have excellent experience working cross-functionally and heavy collaboration with internal stakeholders: engineering, manufacturing, Procurement, Supply Chain, finance, accounting, quality, and executive management.
• Must have worked in a fast-paced environment.
• Prior experience working in a role that required meeting tight deadlines, scheduling deadlines and follow-ups with depts.
• Excited to learn and grow your career!
• Proficient or able to learn enterprise applications (i.e., PLM, ERP, MES)
• Bonus: Understanding of reconciliation of BOM (Bill of Materials)
• Bonus: Experience with New product development (NPD) or new product introduction (NPI)
• Bonus: Data analysis applications/tools (i.e., MS Excel, SQL, Tableau)
• Bonus: Experience with design release processes and systems
• Bonus: Aerospace or frontier technology industries

Please send your resume. Thank you!