Automotive Material Planner

Warren, Michigan  – Movement Search & Delivery   www.movementsearch.com/jobs   is working with a leading supplier to the automotive industry. Due to their growth, they have a newly created position for a Material Planner.

What you will do: The Material Planner systematically coordinates and expedites flow of materials, parts, and assemblies between storage locations and/or departments to ensure on time and complete deliveries to the customer, while also communicating daily with domestic and international suppliers to ensure an on time and complete delivery. The role monitors the flow of shipments in transit to ensure material arrives within the specified time frame, tracks all international shipments, and arranges special transport due to increased customer requirements or supplier quality/transport failures, creating detailed planning for procured parts due to supplier failure or an engineering change. The position checks customer orders in relation to the planning and in the event of discrepancies, works with the customer or production team to meet the demand, and creates documentation for sample and customer deliveries. Additionally, the Material Planner creates batch production schedules, develops procedures to optimize inventory levels, tracking of freight, and packaging needs, and organizes with all suppliers to ensure timely submission of the NAFTA documentation to the customer.

What you will need: Bachelor’s Degree. Production scheduling and logistics planning experience. Current experience in a material planner position within the automotive industry.

What we offer: Honest and transparent representation to our clients…  it’s what we do.

If you have ALL of the required qualifications for this position and are skeptical about sending in a resume to someone you have never spoken with, give us a call. We try to rise above the recruiting rhetoric by giving our contact information in order to provide you as much information as possible. We go to great lengths to work directly with the hiring managers for the positions we represent so our job descriptions truly reflect the needs of the organization.

Please send your resume and current compensation to:

Greg Giltner
auto@movementsearch.com
(Yes, this email goes directly to a real person)
248-297-5305