Material Planner

**Career Area**:Manufacturing & Supply Chain
**Compensation Grade**:20**:
**Job Title**:Material Planner 12-Months Fixed Term Contract**

**Salary Grade**:£27,750+ (Depending on Experience)

**Location**: Springvale, Northern Ireland

**Benefits**:

- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Up to 10% bonus
- Four-day week (Monday-Thursday)
- Contributory pension scheme (Caterpillar will double the employee’s contributions up to 6%)
- Contributory share scheme (Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee’s contributions)
- Access to flexible benefits including access to private medical and dental care, ability to buy additional annual leave, cycle to work scheme etc.

**Flexible working conditions may be considered in line with the needs of the business**

**Who is Caterpillar? What do we do?**

Caterpillar is a world leader in construction and mining equipment—creating innovative, cutting-edge products and services that help our customers build the world around us. With that level of impact comes the platform

to care for the world, we work in. That’s why we lead sustainable green initiatives to preserve the environment, help reduce poverty with the Caterpillar Foundation and stay involved in the communities we help build.

**What will Caterpillar do for you?**

From day one, you’re set up to thrive at Caterpillar: helpful training, relatable mentors, global experience, competitive salary package, work-life balance and the growth opportunities you expect with a Fortune 100 company. You power our success and we are committed to empowering yours. After all, when your work can impact the entire world, it’s important to do work that matters.

**Job Overview**:
The Material Planner role sits within the Supply Team function, which is a wider team of 15. They deal with 100+ multi-geographical suppliers, managing a spend of roughly 150 Million dollars per year. We make products that support a prime product in one of our large UK facilities, which goes into articulated trucks.

This is a fast-paced environment with time sensitive work, but you will have a large knowledge base to lean on and extensive on the job training. The expanse and scope of this role increases the exposure to many different areas, such as logistics and transportation and broaden horizons within supply chain.

**Job Duties**:

- The requirements of this role are to ensure the timely delivery of materials to the facility, collaborating with suppliers to coordinate deliveries, shipping schedules and work schedules to meet facility production plans.
- Using supplier collaboration technologies, collaborates with suppliers and operations to plan delivery of material for production.
- Actively collaborates with suppliers to perform root cause corrective actions to resolve quality and supplier delivery performance issues.
- This position analyses production requirements, converting requirements into purchase orders requisitioning the materials, regulating inventory levels.
- Analyses engineering releases for changes and/or new releases and coordinates effective release dates to provide an efficient depletion of related existing stock items.
- This position supports supply chain performance efforts by monitoring and tracking supplier performance metrics.
- Provides Material Planning expertise to facility functions in support of improving demand variability, forecast credibility and usability for production planning.
- Minimal Travel Required

**Skills and Experience**
- College or university degree related to Supply Chain, or equivalent experience, is required
- Knowledge and/or experience in material control, purchasing, inventory control
- General knowledge of production scheduling and capacity management
- Ability to use and troubleshoot MRP
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience in Microsoft Office, Power point, Word, Excel
- Excellent interpersonal, teamwork, organisation, and communication skills
- SAP experience
- Knowledge and/or experience in transportation or logistics
- APICS CPIM or CSPC National Certification
- Experience of LEAN and Six Sigma

**NB. The panel cannot make assumptions when shortlisting therefore please demonstrate your qualifications and experience on your CV relevant to the criteria outlined.**

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

The panel cannot make assumptions when shortlisting therefore please demonstrate your qualifications and experience on your CV relevant to the criteria outlined.

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