Material Planner Salary: £30 p.h. Contract: 12 months Location: Peterlee, County Durham Hours: Full Time – 36.50 As a Material Planner, you will collaborate with suppliers to ensure execution to planned orders and schedules and resolving issues with suppliers to ensure material availability for facility production. You will work with the facility production schedulers and operations personnel to support facility production and point of use material availability. In this role you will support alignment of facility inventory accuracy and inventory systems, planning parameters with the plan for every part to maintain planning integrity. The incumbent will be responsible for the design, implementation and analysis of the Engineered Value Chain from Source of Supply to Facility Dock. Responsibilities: Uses MRP and supplier collaboration technologies to collaborate with suppliers and operations to plan delivery of material for production and regulate inventory levels. Ensures the timely delivery of materials to the facility, collaborating with suppliers to coordinate delivery and shipping schedules to meet facility production plans. Actively collaborates with suppliers to resolve supplier delivery issues and improve point of use availability, identifying and applying root cause corrections actions where necessary. Supports supply chain performance efforts by monitoring and tracking supplier performance metrics. Delivers improvements in point of use material availability Provides clear accurate communication, both verbal and written as appropriate, with all partners both internally and externally. Experience: An understanding of Lean Manufacturing. Strong material planning background Familiar with material planning systems and concepts Proven ability to schedule and expedite parts