Senior Material Planner - Rosyth, United Kingdom - Oceaneering

Oceaneering

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Rosyth, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Company Profile

Oceaneering is a global provider of engineered services and products, primarily to the offshore energy industry. We develop products and services for use throughout the lifecycle of an offshore oilfield, from drilling to decommissioning. We operate the world's premier fleet of work class ROVs. Additionally, we are a leader in offshore oilfield maintenance services, umbilicals, subsea hardware, and tooling. We also use applied technology expertise to serve the defense, entertainment, material handling, aerospace, science, and renewable energy industries.

Duties & Responsibilities

Purpose
To support the Supply Chain Manager and Purchasing Team by organising and planning the acquisition of materials for SDS-Rosyth.

This role will operate as a bridge between Engineering, Supply Chain, Project Planning, Production Planning and Production by communicating project-related requirements for sourcing, procurement, inventory, and warehousing in relationship to the overall materials plan.

To continually improve our current process.

Functions

ESSENTIAL

Fully proficient individual contributor.
Makes recommendations and decisions (where authorised) on complex and difficult situations.
Broad knowledge of own professional discipline and general knowledge of related disciplines.
Builds relationships with and across teams and delivers key technical content to influence stakeholders.

Responsible for the following:

Maintenance of the inventory item master records (EU, Category, Family and UPC codes) and purchasing item attributes to ensure they are maintained and updated as required.
Collaboration with the Engineering Team to ensure BOMs (Bills of Material) are released in a timely manner, to satisfy the Request For Quote (RFQ) and purchasing processes.
Strategically plan and organise procurement activities in order to optimize cost and schedule related to purchase of commodities across different projects.
Running the CRR (Component Requirement Report) daily, ensuring key stakeholders receive the latest information, reviewing the demand and schedules and directing the Buyers regarding the purchasing requirements to satisfy the Production Plan.
Partner with Project and Production Planning to ensure material supply meets requirements and changes are managed effectively, to the correct BOM revision, scheduled to the correct plan and includes the timely picking, kitting and issuance of parts to Production.
Liaison with Project Planning and Buyers regarding the Weekly Work Plan (WWP) activities to ensure the WWP and 3week lookahead are up to date and in line with the needs of Operations.
Coordination of loadout kitting requirements, liaising between the Project Management and Warehouse teams.
Management of cabler bobbins, electric cable reels/cradles, supplier owned bobbins/reels, silo materials and fluids planning.
Collaboration with the Engineering Department to provide supplier data sheets as required for the creation of new Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) parts.
Regular (minimum quarterly) review of safety stock levels based upon usage report.
Monthly review of aged inventory to ensure inventory procured for a project is issued to the project and any inventory held on hand is used or scrapped if not required.
Support the Warehouse Team in the management of inventory levels and coordinating with stakeholders to assess opportunities and create awareness.
Manage intercompany transactions and inventory movements ensuring deadlines are met (in collaboration with Stores personnel), tracking MSR's to ensure they are fulfilled as required.
Establish best practice in relation to material planning and continuously improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the process.
Participate in on site Health Safety and Environment (HSE) activities/programme e.g. Observation Cards, HSE Safety Suggestions.
Support other divisions within the Rosyth campus as required.
Eliminate waste in whatever form, to suggest the use of more environmentally friendly substances and practices and contribute to the continuous improvement of the environment.
Displays required levels of engagement and a positive 'cando' attitude while consistently supporting Oceaneering culture of Safety, Quality, ongoing learning, and continual improvement.
Any other roles or tasks as required to support our business needs including carrying out work in accordance with the Company HSE and Quality Systems.
Qualifications

Qualifications

REQUIRED

Typically holds degree and/or certification in area of specialty. Equivalent experience may be considered.
Experience in a material planning role (minimum of 510 years in such a role and within a manufacturing company)

Competencies
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies: