Materials Planner

Company Overview:

Husqvarna is the world's largest producer of lawn mowers, chainsaws and portable petrol-powered garden equipment such as trimmers and blowers. The Group is also a world leader in diamond tools and cutting equipment for the construction and stone industries. Total number of employees is approximately 2,500 depending on the season.

*Job Overview*:
The primary focus of this position is to ensure the plant has parts to run to the production schedule and to help increase supplier delivery performance and the supplier relationships on a tactical level. They do this by developing a thorough understanding of the supplier's process and capabilities and ensuring timely delivery of materials to support production requirements. They use and maintain MRP data as the primary planning system tool. They must become experts in PRMS supplier/planning modules, responsible for maintaining system integrity, managing and updating the data and making recommendation as to how we can use the system more effectively. They will also become expert users in the Yard Management system, Transportation management system and ION forecasting tool. They Manage inventory levels and days of supply / inventory turns to support department KPI's. Manage new product introduction integration with suppliers and with the plants. Coordinates trucking requirements and schedules with the suppliers, logistics and warehousing; this includes dunnage out bound and inbound materials to scheduled window times.

Core Duties:

* Provide a professional appearance, documentation and communication as a representative of the company to people outside of the firm.
* Helps to develop standard work processes for their suppliers and follows them to ensure the suppliers are successful in meeting our needs.
* Understands supplier capacity calculations and availability to ensure supply continuity. Meets with the supplier's periodical in the plant to work out issues and improve relationships. Ensures suppliers meet our policy and procedures, especially weekly demand review confirmations. Tries to solve supplier issue and reports them to the supervisor if they can't be solved
* Maintains inventory levels of purchased materials to meet all customer and production requirements but must manage inventory so as to not have excess stock.
* Coordinates supplier deliveries between the suppliers and our logistics teams and tracks daily on time ASN confirmation.
* Performs internal audit processes as required
* Maintain control of documents and records to ensure proper audit trails
* Works within KPI goals.
* Responsible for managing supplier returnable container replenishment, works with teammates to improve dunnage where there are issues of safety, quality and efficiency.
* Performs in accordance with the uniform commercial codes and other governmental codes, ensures the highest level of ethical behaviour and Follows all company rules, policies and procedures.
* System entry and data analysis as required to continuously improve performance
* Responsible for PRMS system integrity for purchased parts.

About Aerotek:

Aerotek, headquartered in Hanover, Md., is a leading provider of technical, professional and industrial staffing services.  Established in 1983, Aerotek is an operating company of Allegis Group, the largest provider of staffing services in the U.S. Aerotek operates a network of more than 200 non-franchised offices throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. For more information, visit .