Material Requirements Planning Manager

American StaffCorp has a DIRECT HIRE opportunity within the aerospace/defense industry. This company is a leading supplier of integrated electromechanical assemblies to commercial and military prime contractors. The company designs equipment to meet client specifications and manufactures high-precision components to produce high-quality assemblies. Products include special purpose instruments, maritime vessel control panels, power supply and distribution assemblies, and surface vehicle and power generating plant control assemblies.Position Summary: Plan and control all scheduling activities supporting manufacturing operations. Balance production and inventory levels with demand to support target consistent with 99% customer service levels, inventory turn goals and capacity utilization/staffing requirements. Develops Sales & Operating Plan summaries for assigned product families and selected programs including demand, inventory and production data. Develops feasible, master production schedules for finished goods and component items based on capacity requirements. Calculates resulting requirements for raw materials, purchased parts and packaging supplies based on MRP methodology. Provides daily-bucketed schedules by product to manufacturing and installs production compliance metrics to measure performance. Participates on MRPII design teams and leads site installation effort for new system; eliminate the use of off-line spreadsheets and processes for scheduling. Lead efforts to install standard processes for the Master Production Scheduling function, in accordance with MRPII methodology. Principle Relationships Inside the Company - Manufacturing and Warehouse/Shipping Managers; Plant management and staff; Marketing, Sales Managers, Demand Manager, Purchasing Managers and Buyers, Finance and IT. Outside the Company - Production Coordinators at subcontractors; Sales Representatives; communication with some customers. Essential Functions:-Develop valid, feasible production schedules for finished goods and component items based on equipment, labor and raw material availability. -Work with internal functional area leaders toward successful integration of a Master Production Schedule using existing MRP (module exists, but not in use). -Champion and mentor functional areas on systems-driven requirements planning. -Publish and perform root cause analyses on key metrics including Customer Service Level, Actual vs. Scheduled Productions and Master Schedule Stability -Interact frequently with sales, marketing and manufacturing personnel to achieve capacity planning, leading to successful execution.. -Present demand, production and inventory summaries at monthly operational meetings. -Collaborate with functional areas in Lean and OP-X initiatives relating to administrative and manufacturing efficiencies. Other Responsibilities/Detailed Duties -Update the master production schedule continuously. -Coordinate supply of finished goods, assembled components and parts to intercompany and distribution centers. Schedule requirements using MRPII (Made to Manage) Production Planning Module. -Achieve target customer service levels and inventory turn levels based on forecast error and bias trends, manufacturing capacity/flexibility and customer service and inventory turn goals. Review monthly. -Review monthly sales forecasts provided by the Program Management Team. Monitory monthly feed of sales forecasts to hard requirements. -Use MRPII Capacity Planning tools to determine if production will be constrained in future periods; load level production plan, and identify potential corrective actions such as: working overtime, adding equipment, outsourcing or expediting. -As necessary, exercise project leadership for new computer based systems, in both selection and implementation processes. Using software vendor and other users as sources, learn operation of such system(s). Coordinate pilot testing. Conduct training programSalary Range:$85,000-$90,000