MATERIAL PLANNER CARROLLTON

Description

Trident Seafoods is the largest vertically integrated seafood harvesting and processing company in North America. Trident is a privately held, 100 percent USA-owned company with primary seafood processing operations and fleet support in twelve Alaska communities. Trident’s global operations produce finished wild Alaska seafood products in 6 countries and its sales teams serve customers in over 50 countries. Trident employs approximately 9,000 people worldwide each year and partners with over 5,400 independent fishermen and crewmembers. Species harvested and processed by Trident include virtually every commercial species of salmon, whitefish, and crab harvested in the North Pacific and Alaska. The global supply chain also includes cultured and wild species from a network of trusted sources worldwide.

Summary: Plans and orders Dry and Packaging materials by performing the following duties:

Key Responsibilities:

• Track and publish materials score cards to determine improvement areas.

• Analyzes production specifications and plant capacity data and performs mathematical calculations to determine manufacturing processes and production ingredient consumption.

• Confers with production supervisors to determine the status of assigned projects.

• Expedites operations that delay schedules and alter schedules to meet unforeseen conditions.

• Prepares purchase orders to obtain materials, tools, and equipment.

• Reviews Requisitions and Purchase Orders for incoming merchandise and customer orders in order to plan work activities.

• Establishes operational procedures for verification of incoming shipments, handling and disposition of merchandise, and keeping of warehouse inventory.

• Directs reclamation of damaged merchandise.

• Collaborate with Dry Warehouse Supervisor to attain inventory practices enhancements

• Enhance plant warehouse and material operations through lean manufacturing practices execution

• Coordinate with the global inventory team to validate and ensure inventory levels and cost accounting accuracy.

• Translate customer requirements into necessary raw material elements

• Order timely delivery of raw materials by following purchasing department’s buy plan

• Enhance delivery, quality and cost with suppliers.

• Follow plant food safety policies and industry best practices.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Acquires knowledge of Trident’s Environmental and Safety Policies by completing required training programs and performing designated work activities in accordance with training and procedures/work instructions.

• Notifies designated personnel of any environmental or safety incidents or risks not previously documented, in accordance with Environmental Awareness and/or safety trainings.

• All other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• A minimum of 3 years of experience as a material planner or similar position.

• Associates degree or equivalent work experience.

• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

• Experience with order management software.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in material planning or similar position.

• Proficient with SAP.

• Experience in food production facility

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.

The employee is frequently required to climb or balance.

The employee is occasionally required to sit; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.

The employee moves objects

• regularly up to 10 pounds

• frequently up to 25 pounds

• occasionally up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision, peripheral vision and depth perception

Work authorizations: