Material Planner/Coordinator

Eagle Foods, LLC•El Paso, TX

11d

About The Position

At Eagle Foods we are builders. We are builders of brands, categories, and people. Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years. Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products. As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world. Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia® Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET® Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad. Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass-merchandisers, as well as foodservice and export, U.S. military, and private label business. Job Description Summary The Material Planner is responsible for ensuring that adequate quantities of the correct materials are on hand to support the production schedule and facility. This person will be accountable for developing supporting material plans and works closely with the Production Scheduler to identify supply problems related to schedule changes and monitors bill of materials as needed on new or existing items. Additionally, this individual monitors and controls inventory levels to optimize inventory and minimize obsolescence.

Requirements

3-5 years of experience in planning and scheduling desired
BS or BA degree from an accredited university desired. Experience in lieu of degree considered
Strong communication skills, verbal and written including ‘seeking to understand, then to be understood’
Collaboration skills and an ability to work with others to create mutually beneficial outcomes
Experience doing production planning in an ERP system
Knowledge of plant operations, GMPs, HAACP, and production scheduling
MS Office skills inclusive of an ability to use Outlook, Word and Excel
Demonstrated Adaptability - ability to learn new skills and new ways of working, and apply them in a professional environment
Initiative and follow through, self-starter. Ability to work independently and meet goals/objectives
Ability to identify, effectively resolve and escalate issues that will negatively impact the business

Responsibilities

Work with corporate purchasing and the Campus Logistics Manager to set safety stocks for materials considerate of supplier lead times, contract stipulations with suppliers, forecast and production needs over the material lead time horizon and historical variability of demand for the items.
Order/release materials from assigned suppliers to maintain material safety stocks/inventory levels considerate of the weekly production schedule and mid -range production plan at the plant.
Monitor Inventory for FEFO Execution in material consumption.
Proactively communicate with management, the plant scheduler/s, plant leadership and corporate purchasing when material inventories or scheduled deliveries are not sufficient to support scheduled or planned production. Work with these partners to develop solutions to support the business need.
Maintenance (updates and creation) of Bill of Materials within ERP System.
Interact with suppliers to communicate material needs and develop solutions to material supply issues
Own material rejects and returns to suppliers, including claim process if necessary.
Own waste materials recycling program (Cans, Lids, Corrugates, etc.)
Participate and support SQF Audit Requirements and Audit activities related to materials.
Work with vendors to provide needed quantities of materials to adequately support production demands in the circumstances such as changed production schedules or rejected deliveries and manage the return of any defective or rejected ingredients back to the vendor and ensure proper credits are issued
Meet with vendors to discuss issues, and to ensure continuous improvement in areas of products and processes
Own the supply of materials until they arrive at the plant. This includes working with suppliers and storage vendors to monitor deliveries and shuttles of materials and expediting/escalating as need to meet the production needs and avoid plant downtime.
Own materials cycle counting and inventory level verification in support of the plant team when requested or where the material inventory situation is best owned by planning.
Own resolution with suppliers when physical deliveries or delivery paperwork (CoA, BOL, etc.) do not meet receiving expectations. This includes being available to field calls or engage on the vendor’s dock to confirm issues exist, partnering with leadership to align on what to do immediately with the receipt (reject, receive and hold, etc.), working the issue to resolution with the supplier, and working with the supplier and purchasing to have the supplier address repeat failures to prevent recurrence.
In coordination with purchasing and marketing, plan, communicate and manage material transitions so that they are done with no plant production interruption and minimal to no obsolescence.
Consider impact of scheduling decisions on shared resources throughout the plant (i.e. labor, equipment, etc) and work with other personnel to resolve conflicts and improve productivity
Attend daily and weekly plant scheduling meetings to:
Review the production plans and understand plan changes
Communicate material inventory or delivery timing concerns and develop a plan to mitigate the risk
Review any planned material transitions so the operation understands what is changing and how to manage
Identify follows ups to be owned by you related to the above
Learn about M3 planning and scheduling parameters and processes and use them to build and optimize the plan on your assigned materials.