Materials Planner

MOVING YOUR WORLD by focusing on your success:
FUCHS offers a challenging and rewarding working environment where employees are encouraged to develop and grow.  We stand behind our core values: trust, creating value, respect, reliability, and integrity. Ours is a culture that fosters creativity and empowerment, values work/life balance, and gives you the freedom to excel. At FUCHS we aim to nurture your capabilities, ideas and career.

Salary:
FUCHS offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience in a similar position. The salary range for this position is $60,000 - $66,000 per year, but actual salary will vary depending upon a new hire’s experience and qualifications as well as internal equity. 

Your Responsibilities:
The Materials Planner role is part of the Supply Chain team and reports directly to the Materials Manager.  The role includes the following essential responsibilities, but is not limited too:
•    Ensure optimized plan of purchase order management for externally sourced materials to support manufacturing and customer demand; including creating, confirming, and modifying purchase orders
•    Review/Modify master data regularly in ERP system (SAP) to ensure material availability and quantity supports business need; including lot sizing procedure and quantity, lead time, and stocking position
•    Develop and maintain critical relationships with internal and external sources to ensure success of supply of materials
•    Work closely with operations and procurement on supply continuity to mitigate outages
 

Qualifications we are looking for:
•    Bachelor’s degree preferred, Supply Chain or related field
•    1+ years' experience in materials planning and/or management for externally sourced materials; chemical industry preferred
•    Excellent organizational and communication skills, including the ability to track and ensure completion of multiple orders 
•    Basic to intermediate Microsoft Word and Excel skills, including the ability to create single sheet Excel spreadsheets with formulas 
•    ERP system experience (SAP experience preferred)
 

These are your benefits:
FUCHS offers a challenging and rewarding working environment where employees are encouraged to develop and grow as professionals.  In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on projects that will expand your experience and challenge your abilities in the global marketplace.  The position also offers an excellent compensation package and a comprehensive suite of benefits. Detailed benefit information can be found at this link: https://fuchs.com/us/en/benefits.

FUCHS Lubricants Co. is an equal employment opportunity (EEO)/AA employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace (m/f/d/v).

Do you have any questions? Rosalinda Almanza (rosalinda.almanza@fuchs.com) will be more than happy to answer them!