Master Planner

Would you like to work in an international, innovative organization, where we produce high-quality solutions and are constantly looking to enhance existing and develop new offerings? Are you eager to join a professional team and work directly with our products? Then we have an interesting position in Grundfos for you.

Grundfos is seeking an experienced Master Planner to join its Supply Chain team. The Master Planner will balance supply and demand while specializing in implementing best practices. They will be responsible for creating, executing, and monitoring the production management system while reporting performance to the business plan, shipment, inventory, and the production plan. This position reports directly to the Supply Chain Manager and will operate daily out of the Brookshire, Texas facility.

Relocation for this position cannot be supported and qualified candidates must have authorization to work in the USA without support.

Your main responsibilities:

• Serve as a primary point of contact and liaison with sales, engineering, manufacturing, and logistics and collaborate with these departments to establish schedules and plans that allocate available resources to best serve customer needs.
• Collaborate with purchasing to periodically compare current and anticipated orders with available inventory components while using sales plans to anticipate demand and communicate forecasts.
• Calculating and maintaining accurate reorder points, lot sizes, safety stocks balancing supply requirements with inventory targets and minimizing slow moving inventory.
• Running segmentation process and analyzing gaps between target and confirmed lead times.
• Monitor and report daily production orders, production outputs, activity hours, inventory, lead times, supply chain KPI's, and Grundfos Production System (GPS).
• Prepare and lead weekly capacity meetings, Master Production Scheduling meetings and monthly SIOP meetings.
• Preparing the annual plant demand, capacity budget, and monitor monthly actuals.
• Lead the introduction of new products and follow up internally with stakeholders to ensure activities are completed on time to ensure project execution timelines are met.

Your background:

We imagine that you have:

• A bachelor's degree in in Supply Chain Management, Business, or Engineering is preferred.
• A minimum of 7+ years of Supply Planning experience with 5+ years in Master Planner or Senior Demand Planning role in a high mix manufacturing environment.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and SAP.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt preferred.
• APICS Certification preferred.
• Through and in-depth knowledge of ERP Systems, master production scheduling, production planning and capacity planning.
• Demonstrated analytical abilities with strong attention to detail.

What's in it for you?

Whether it's developing leadership skills or advancing your expertise even further, we'll support you with continuous learning and development opportunities, to help discuss and steer your long-term Grundfos career path. You'll be welcomed from day one into an inclusive, trusting environment guided by six core values.

In addition, your day-to-day benefits include:

• If you'll be working from your home office, we'll make sure you are well equipped with a workstation. However, you are always welcome to our offices where you can engage, learn, and have fun with colleagues.
• On top of it, flexible working hours; 5 paid holidays; paid time off for volunteering; up to 20 paid vacation days. Vacation hours are accrued on a prorated basis, based on your hire date within the calendar year.
• Competitive medical insurance rates through medical, dental, and vision plans; and a 401(k)-match program.
• Annual bonuses, parental support, internal well-being consultants and programs.
• Access to the modern Grundfos Academy to pursue further both personal and professional development.
• Diverse, inclusive environment with employee-led forums offering colleagues a safe place to connect and share openly.

Do you want to learn more?

If you have questions or would like to know more about this position, please contact Andrea Micovic at amicovic@grundfos.com for more information.

If this job sounds interesting, please send your resume and cover letter by clicking "Apply".

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We look forward to hearing from you.

About Grundfos
Grundfos is one of the world's leading water technology companies with more than 19.000 employees in 60+ countries all over the world. Our skills commit us to pioneering solutions to the world's water and climate challenges and improve the quality of life for people. We dare to do things that others cannot or dare not do, as we believe innovation is not only a business opportunity, but an obligation. And what really matters to us is not short term profit, but the impact we make. By becoming part of our united powerful team, you too can drive this change no matter your role.

An inclusive team
We believe that the key to a work environment, where employees thrive and grow, is our ability to celebrate and value our differences in background, experiences and perspectives. In our recruitment process we welcome all professional people without consideration of age, colour, gender identity, national origin, physical or mental disability, ethnicity or religion.

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