Production and Material Flow Planner

About the role

Location: USA - Taylorsville

Hours: Full-Time

Type of Contract: Permanent

Application Deadline:

Make Supply Chain Real! 

The primary objective of this role is to ensure efficient scheduling and execution within the boundaries of the production and material flow plan. 

• This includes developing tool-supported production schedules with optimal production cycles and minimal costs for finished goods, while providing feedback on schedule feasibility to supply planning. 
• The role is also responsible for managing availability based on DBM rules to ensure exceptional customer satisfaction. 
• Additionally, it involves evaluating day-to-day operational performance of all material flow activities and ensuring availability at the packaging level. 
• Manage local inventory, schedule orders, reduce slow-moving stock, and ensure accuracy of stock levels by timely and accurate goods receipts. 
• Develop cost-optimized inventory deployment schedules at the location, define the amount of material to be moved to overflow storage locations, and create STOs for transport. 
• Perform GRID changes and DAC adjustments on a packaging level to maintain availability. 
• Create selling awareness by proactively pushing sales via ODP to balance the inventory. 
• Participate in CST to drive and continuously improve the procurement process for improved customer satisfaction at optimized cost; contribute to production KPI monitoring. 
• Participate in alignment meetings with the Material Handling organization to drive and continuously improve the material flow schedule quality and ensure proper risk management and asset effectiveness. 
• Align with production on up-to-date transition matrices and sequence lists, responsible for related master data input, and actively utilize the transition matrix to achieve cost-minimal schedules. 
• Maintain all material flow-related parameters in SAP and other optimization tools for system-guided scheduling. 
• Ensures that company values, ethical principles and compliance rules as set out in the Borealis Ethics Policy are integrated in all related activities. 
• Monitor safety stock, review and update safety stock calculations in MRP, decide on temporary safety stock reduction up to 50%, and provide input for reductions over 50%. 
• Perform the dynamic availability check (DAC), check BOP lists several times per day, update product availability, and inform ODP/CSR on delivery blocks due to unplanned shutdowns. 
• Provide input to the product owner for the MA6 positive list to get restricted material moving as soon as possible. 
• Provide input to pool maintenance and decide whether production should run as planned if the grid and pool are reduced. 
• Follow the updated demand situation (grid+pool+internal) daily and adjust the production schedule to keep the stock in balance. 
• Decide on stock placement at the location and trigger stock movement to overflow storage locations. 
• Prepare and provide input to the overflow fixed cost budgeting process, check overflow invoices, and follow up on agreed actions regarding cost optimization. 
• Change in production schedule based on transition matrix 
• Managing cost-optimal inventory structure, including safety stock utilization decision in alignment with ODP Team. 
• Detailed stock placement at the location. 

About you

• BSC (Master of Science) or equivalent 
• S&OP/Supply Chain professional training (APICS or similar). 
• Fluency in English. 
  EXPERIENCE IN THE ROLE: 2+ years solid experience in a commercial, business, operations or supply chain environment preferably in the Polyolefin industry. 
• TOTAL EXPERIENCE: 3+ years 
  Extensive professional know-how in S&OP, preferentially through being responsible of different steps of S&OP process in the past, ideally combining business, supply chain and finance know-how. 
• Excellent SAP-APO general and  PPDS tool knowledge. 
• Excellent analysis and conceptualisation skills, supporting fact based decision making and business case preparation. 
• Excellent presentation skills based upon an ability to compile analyses and propose solutions. 
• Strong influencing skills, being able to translate complex situations into simple terms. Sets direction, engages and inspires people. 

Our offer

Borealis has competitive compensation and benefits which you can read more about on our Career Page.

For this role in Taylorsville, NC we also offer:

• Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage from first day of employment
• Paid Vacation
• 13 Paid Holidays
• 6% 401K Match
• Profit Sharing
• Bonus
• 50% Remote Work Policy
• Salary Range $90,000-$115,000

Application Process

If you're excited about the prospect of joining our team and being a part of Making It Real, please submit your application via the “apply now” button in the job posting to apply directly.

If you have any questions, please contact Marc Kochan, (Marc.Kochan@BorealisGroup.com). 

We reserve the right to close this vacancy for further applications when we have received sufficient applications that meet the advertised requirements and will contact you as soon as screening is closed.

At Borealis, we are committed to an equal recruitment process. We value diversity, and all applicants & employees are treated fairly and equally. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination based on factors such as age, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, gender identity or expression. 
 

Borealis only accepts candidate resumes from recruiters or recruiting agencies if they have been explicitly commissioned by Borealis for a specific recruitment and if the data is provided to us in line with the General Data Protection Regulation. Borealis will not accept or pay fees for candidate resumes of any form or kind that were sent unsolicited to either HR or directly to our hiring managers.