Associate Material Planner

At Trane TechnologiesTM and through our businesses including Trane® and Thermo King®, we create innovative climate solutions for buildings, homes, and transportation that challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. We're a team that dares to look at the world's challenges and see impactful possibilities. We believe in a better future when we uplift others and enable our people to thrive at work and at home. We boldly go.

Job Summary:
Responsible for purchased material planning process from placing purchase order, follow up with supplier to deliver product to production assembly lines and/or service parts. Plans engineering change and coordinates into production when appropriate. Provides other support to production and management as required. Responsible for purchased material planning process for nonstandard and drop shipments from placing purchase order, follow up with supplier to deliver product to production assembly lines and/or a drop shipment location.

Work arrangements: On-site

Responsibilities:

• Plans all purchased parts within responsibility area. Make decisions to release, firm, cancel, or defer work based upon current inventory, demand, and capacity. Responsible for maintaining appropriate inventory levels to support production plan.
• Places and maintains purchase orders for raw materials within responsibility area. Works with suppliers to expedite or defer materials as dictated by changes in internal and external customer requirements and to meet production and inventory objectives. Works independently with suppliers to manage material supply to ensure on time deliveries.
• Plans Service Parts requirements for purchased common material to meet external customers variable demand.
• Facilitates problem resolutions with Accounts Payable related to purchase orders/ invoicing and pricing.
• Maintains accurate purchase order information in the ERP system. Modifies order release due dates, quantities, and closes purchase orders, etc, based on planning demand.
• Manage cycle counts according to standards, analyzes data and facilitates problem resolutions.
• Identifies sourcing solutions where needed
• Work closely with commodity groups to ensure suppliers and plant are aligned with lead times and pricing.
• Plans engineering changes to ensure ECN instructions are clear and compiled. Works with Production and Purchasing to stop procurement of material affected by change. Keeps designated engineers informed of ECN implementation status; coordinates proper rotation of inventory to minimize scrap/reworked parts at incorporation time. Reviews bill of material changes and updates ERP system with planner, lead times, order policy information to ensure proper planning of new parts into production. Establishes effectively dates and monitors inventory levels of new and old parts to minimize cost impact. Facilitates the Engineering Change until incorporation.
• Represents Production Planning and Analysis at various meetings and relays related information to production planning and analysis staff. Collects information, complies into standard formats, prepares monthly reports and other management reports as requires.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of manufacturing, quality control, and planning processes.
• Knowledge of MicroSoft Outlook, Word, Excel(intermediate level)
• Ability to understand manufacturing engineering processes and to interpret blueprints.
• Must possess good mathematical skills and the ability to communicate orally and in writing.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred; Relative 1-2 years experience required in lieu of degree.
• APICS (CPIM) or equivalent certification preferred.
• OPEX, Lean experience preferred.

What’s in it for you:

• Benefits kick in day one!
• 6% 401K match
• 3 weeks of vacation, plus site paid holidays
• Benefits*: Trane-Technologies-Benefits-Offered.pdf

Compensation

Base Pay Range: $41,000 - $83,000 / annually

Disclaimer: This base pay range is based on US national averages. Actual base pay could be a result of seniority, merit, geographic location where the work is performed.

We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits and programs. We are an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any legally protected status.