Material Planner Manager

Azuria Water Solutions, with Corporate Headquarters locations in Tampa, FL, is looking for a Material Planner to join our team.Azuria and its family of companies shield and protect the world's infrastructure from degradation and corrosion with a variety of technologies. Azuria's businesses comprise sewer, drinking water and energy and mining pipeline rehabilitation and corrosion protection for the strengthening of bridges, tunnels, buildings, waterfront, metal, and concrete structures. Our companies provide cost-effective solutions to remediate operational, health, regulatory and environmental problems resulting from aging and defective pipelines and infrastructure. For more information, visit www.Azuria.comSummary of Position The Material Planner will report to the Director of Inventory and Material Management and will be an integral part of our Supply Chain Team working daily with our Manufacturing, Procurement, and Finance Teams. In this position, the Material Planner will support 8 manufacturing sites and be responsible for the forecasting, planning, and purchasing of all chemicals, resin, stock tube, and other materials, integral to maintain those facilities production. As a critical part of the Supply Chain Team, the Material Planner will work closely with Procurement on supplier management and with Finance on inventory management. This position requires 20% travel. The candidate will be required to work at an onsite office. Locations: Tampa, FL; Chesterfield, MO, Cedar City, UT, Indianapolis, IN, Tappan, NY, Royalton, VT, Ocala, FL, Bessemer, AL. Responsibilities Manage all aspects of material planning for 8 wet out plants. Including systematic, transactional, and physical processes.Identify and implement process improvements for planning, ordering, stocking, and material movement. Including driving operational changes where needed to obtain necessary information for planning.Use existing data from multiple sources to drive better planning of all material and drive data integrity in systems to provide better demand forecast.Obtain data from ERP/MRP systems to analyze for setting stocking levels, monitoring trends/seasonality, and historical trends. Manipulate and transform data for easy interpretation.Assist in leading wet out team with material related items, including advising on material transactions, processes, cost savings opportunities, and data management.Collaborate with key stakeholders, creating purchase orders and managing material stocking levels (PFEP – Plan for Every Part) and strategies, accounting for economic and other risks to supply chain, to maximize days inventory on-hand and reduce technical / financial obsolescence.Participate in daily production meetings (SIOP), and other production related rhythms reporting out on days on hand, in transit, and open PO’s. Redeploy assets as needed to meet production needs. Manage open purchase orders by expediting or deferring delivery dates as needed to meet plant requirements while maintaining inventory levels within storage capacity constraints.Participate in Manufacturing Operating Meetings and SIOP Meetings to communicate urgent requirements and short- and long-term demand forecasts. Escalate and communicate issues driving cross-functional collaboration and resolution.Monitor and manage customer performance on deliveries and other contractual related KPI’s, working with supplier and Procurement to improve performance.Track price changes, updating existing purchase orders to ensure compliance with contracts and pricing agreed upon. Partner with procurement team to ensure ordering aligns with price changes, contractual agreements, rebate tracking, as well as plant production requirements.Manage monthly Cycle Count completions for all plants to ensure compliance to company policies and accuracy in transactions. Facilitate monthly report outs for each plant to understand variances and root cause. Identify and drive process improvements to reduce future variances…

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