Materials Planning Supervisor

About Us:

Panelmatic, Inc. was founded in 1957 in Youngstown, OH to serve manufacturing industries with the design and building of custom electrical, instrument, and pneumatic control panels. Our business has sufficiently grown over the years to support expansion for our clients. We have produced control packages for many of America's top corporations in the chemical, environmental, food, pulp and paper, rubber, petroleum, pharmaceutical, glass, metals, and utilities industries. We also deliver equipment for use worldwide. Our rigorous methodology assures compliance with domestic and international standards. We can meet the needs of our diverse clientele from start to finish through sales, design, fabrication, testing, and delivery.

Since 1957, we have been known for our high-quality, custom-built control packages, our comprehensive service, and our technological and manufacturing expertise. This expertise assures you of our ability to handle the largest and most complex packages quickly and efficiently. 

Job Summary:

The Materials Supervisor is responsible for leading a team to ensure system parameters are set up appropriately to maintain our stocking positions and inventory goals while meeting our production schedules to deliver our customer orders on time.

This role coordinates with various departments including Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply, Engineering, Planning, and Operations.

Job Duties:

• Builds a process to identify key raw materials with stocking requirements
• Establishes process to set and maintain min / max targets in the ERP
• Develops and leads team to ensure material availability to support daily production requirements
• Develops and maintains KPI’s to manage our stocking levels and on-time delivery on our projects
• Works with production planning and our buying organization to ensure material is ordered and received in a timely fashion to align with production’s requirements
• Analyze daily material status and present shortages to team
• Attends daily production meetings
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure order planning and fulfillment.
• Mitigate material shortages through internal and external escalation.
• Perform unplanned component demand verification and upload.
• Manage material requirement changes and dispositions
• Ensures correct material is being used, matching the BOM. If there is a substitution, ensure all substitution or dispositioning activity is done timely and accurately to ensure property inventory accounting
• Perform ROP (re-order point) sizing activities monthly.
• Works with buyers and production planners to ensure all materials are available and located prior to work orders being moved to production

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, engineering, or business management
• 1 - 3 years of supervision experience in planning in a manufacturing environment
• 3+ years of experience in production planning and materials management
• Intermediate to Advanced Excel Skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of supply planning, production planning, and scheduling
• Excellent communication and organizational abilities.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.
• Ability to communicate at all levels
• Ability to use ERP/MRP systems
• Ability to pass physical, drug, driving, and background check required
• Ability to physically push, pull, and lift 50lbs or more required
• Ability to stoop and bend required
• Ability to sit, stand, and walk for four-plus hours at a time required
• Alignment with company core values required
• Top of Form

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Power BI and Tableau
• Experience with Syteline ERP
• CPIM Certification

• Medical, dental, vision, HSA, term life, AD&D, STD, LTD

• 100% medical premium paid for by Panelmatic for the employee-only level medical coverage
• 80% paid for by Panelmatic and 20% paid for by the employee on all other level medical coverage (i.e. employee plus child, employee plus spouse, family)
• 401(k) contributions matched 100% up to 4% 
• Scholarships, educational reimbursement, paid volunteerism, and paid personal and professional development provided
• PTO and paid holidays provided
• Career advancement opportunities
• Competitive wages
• Family-friendly environment with average employee tenure above five years