Planning Manufacturing Engineer

 Overall Purpose:

The Planning Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for analyzing and optimizing inventory and material requirements to support manufacturing and to ensure on-time delivery. This role manages inventory control strategies, identify and mitigates production risks, and drives improvements through job costing and cross function problem solving to support operational efficiency and on-time delivery.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

•  Responsible for the translation of customer and material forecasts into planning requirements, including analyzing stock levels and work in process
• Implement inventory control strategies, including safety stock levels, minimum/maximum reorder points, and economic order quantities.
• Monitor inventory levels across all inventory to ensure adequate stock levels and minimize shortages and overages
• Identify and mitigate risk associated with part shortages, late drawing releases, process planning gaps and supply chain constraints
• Review MRP demand to identify component shortages against the master production schedule
• Analyze inventory variances, work in progress (WIP) tracking errors, and scrap trends
• Set up and track inventory metrics and KPIs
• Tracks and analyze job costing across all manufacturing jobs
• Support manufacturing operations by troubleshooting process issues, dispositioning nonconformance, leading root cause investigations and implementing corrective and preventive actions
• Coordinate and participate in annual inventory audit
• Adhere to 5S Standards
• Adhere to all company policies and procedures, including, but not limited to, policies for attendance and punctuality and standards for safety.

Other Duties:

• Other duties based on the needs of Hydraflow

The preceding functions have been provided as examples of the type of work performed by employees assigned to this job classification.  Management reserves the right to add, modify, change or rescind work assignments and to make reasonable accommodations as needed.

 Qualification Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
• 3+ years of relevant experience in a manufacturing required
• Experience in managing raw materials, WIP, and finished goods
• Strong analytical skills with experience in data analysis, forecasting, and reporting
• Familiarity with lot traceability
• Hands on experience using an ERP system for inventory transactions
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, collaboration and decision-making skills
• Proficient with Microsoft Office
• Fluent in English (able to read, speak, write and understand)
• Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident)

Physical Demands:                                                       

• While performing duties of the job, the employee is regularly required to:

o   Sit

o   Use hands and fingers to handle, type or feel

o   Reach with hands and arms

o   Speak or hear

• While performing duties of the job, the employee is occasionally required to:

o   Stand

o   Walk

Work Environment:  Warehouse and office setting

*Must be a U.S. Person based on ITAR definition (U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident). This position is expected to be exposed to information which is subject to U.S. export control regulations, i.e. the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR).  All Applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of U.S. regulations.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Hydraflow provides fluid transfer solutions that reduce customer's installation time, waste, weight and life-cycle costs. In addition we couple our highly innovative and differentiated products with a culture of service and quality, giving our customer the competitive advantage to succeed in their business.