Planner

We are seeking a qualified and experienced Planner to join our Production & Raw material planning team at the Garyville Plant. As a Planner, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the timely production of orders and the procurement of raw materials to meet customer delivery schedules and maintain safety stock levels. Your focus will be on promoting, teamwork, integrity, and upholding our core values of reliability, trust.

What You Will Do:

• Planned production orders and raw materials to support on-time delivery to customers and maintain safety stock levels.
• Participating in daily planning meetings and assigning priorities to production planning tasks.
• Reviewing open order reports and ensuring production plan supports on-time delivery to customers.
• Updating production schedule based on vessels and production status and liaising with the Production team on the status of Process Orders.
• Working cross-functionally with production, logistics, quality, and maintenance to address issues to support schedule adherence.
• Review and approve invoices for raw material orders
• Drive continuous improvement ideas across functions
• Complete ownership of inventory levels in assigned MRP
• Review and help mitigate excess and obsolete inventory.
• Able to complete training with production out on the production floor.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree
• 3 years of experience in production planning and/or raw material planning, preferably in a chemical manufacturing or similar industry.
• Proficiency in ERP systems
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment.
• Strong analytical, data analysis, and critical thinking skills
• Proven track record of creatively solving difficult problems
• Immigration sponsorship not available for this role

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Supply Chain Management, other relevant field, or equivalent work experience
• SAP Experience
• Strong proficiency in Excel/ Data-Driven Decision Making
• APICS Certification

Benefits

Ecolab strives to provide comprehensive and market-competitive benefits to meet the needs of our associates and their families. to see our benefits.

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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Ecolab, we believe the best teams are diverse and inclusive, and we are on a journey to create a workplace where every associate can grow and achieve their best. We are committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants. We recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement on the basis of individual qualifications and job performance. In all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement, we will not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran.

In addition, we are committed to furthering the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) through Affirmative Action (AA). Our goal is to fully utilize minority, female, disabled and covered veteran individuals at all levels of the workforce. Ecolab is a place where you can grow your career, own your future and impact what matters.

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