Vontier Hiring For Materials Planner, Tool Storage at Lakewood, NY Full Time

You will be responsible for supporting daily production operations by ensuring an optimal supply of material required for manufacturing to meet daily customer demand. Your primary job responsibilities will be ensuring the inventory and kanban cards are sized correctly, monitoring kanban execution through daily audits, and identifying opportunities to reduce inventory through improving the kanban design. These responsibilities involve direct contact with outside suppliers, Marketing, Engineering, Sourcing, and Operations staff to meet current and projected customer requirements.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Contributes, in the capacity of a team member, individually, or as a reference, to resolving materials quality issues and increasing manufacturing productivity.
• Forecast monthly material requirements to vendors to ensure material availability, based on historical data and forecasted upcoming demand.
• Identify and manage actual and potential material availability problems.
• Root cause/corrective actions to short-term and permanent solutions to material supply issues.
• Based on marketing forecasts, historical usage, and anticipated new product development implementations, accurately size kanbans, and the inventory investment to assure material availability without excess inventory.
• Direct contact with outside suppliers, Marketing, Sourcing, Customer Service, and Operations staffs to meet/exceed current and projected customer requirements, assuring material availability and optimal inventory levels.
• Establish and maintain supermarket and work with Supervisors, cell operators, and indirect operators to standardize and sustain.
• Analyze actual inventory vs. design to reduce inventory waste. Analyze design inventory and develop ideal inventory targets and countermeasures.
• Develop operation dashboards based on advanced Excel and Power BI skills.
• Work with supervisors, cell operators, and indirect hourly operators to quantify, prioritize, problem solve, create countermeasures for, and ensure elimination of kanban execution errors.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, and Quality to achieve cost reduction targets.
• Monitor supplier delivery performance to maintain system lead times, determine safety stock levels, and hold suppliers accountable for performance improvement.
• Frequently participate in and lead continuous improvement workshops (kaizens) with team members to improve quality, delivery, and productivity.
• Other duties as assigned by Manager.

CAREER PROGRESSIONS / PROMOTABLE TO:

This person must desire an upwardly mobile career path to a higher-level Supply Chain position. Ability to relocate is also desirable and may be necessary for advancement.

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Supply Chain or related
• 2+ Years of prior Supply Chain management experience
• Must have strong purchasing and negotiation skills
• Experience in a manufacturing environment is a plus
• Strong communication skills – verbal, written, presentation
• Strong computer skills 
  •    Microsoft Excel
  •    Business Intelligence systems/databases
• Strong problem-solving skills

Matco Tools, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vontier Corporation, is a distributor of quality professional automotive equipment, tools, and toolboxes. Matco began operation in 1946 and, since 1979, has sold products directly to professional mechanics, enthusiasts, and those who value quality tools through a network of independent franchised mobile distributors who operate in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Canada. Products are also sold to central purchasing operations and other institutional customers through industrial sales representatives and via the internet. Matco is a franchising company, a distribution company, a financing company, a manufacturer of industry leading toolboxes, and a leading supplier of automotive technology solutions employing approximately 600 associates in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada. For more information on Matco Tools, visit www.matcotools.com.

BENEFITS

Annual bonuses/incentives (depending on position)
Immediate company benefits (medical, dental, vision, life, etc.)
401k with company match
401k defined contribution after 1 year of service
High level of employee engagement
Employee discounts
15 days vacation + 4 floating holidays + 8 paid holidays 
Paid maternity & paternity leave
Tuition reimbursement
Student loan payment assistance
Annual Day of Caring for employees to volunteer
Discounts on tools
Annual team building events

Vontier (NYSE: VNT) is a global industrial technology company uniting critical mobility and multi-energy technologies and solutions to meet the needs of a rapidly evolving, more connected mobility ecosystem. Leveraging leading market positions, decades of domain expertise and unparalleled portfolio breadth, Vontier enables the way the world moves – delivering smart, safe, and sustainable solutions to our customers and the planet. Vontier has a culture of continuous improvement built upon the foundation of the Vontier Business System and embraced by over 8,500 colleagues worldwide. Additional information about Vontier is available on the Company’s website at www.vontier.com.

“Vontier Corporation and all Vontier Companies are equal opportunity employers that evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), age, marital status, disability, veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and other characteristics protected by law.”