Material Planner Jr

At Trane TechnologiesTM and through our businesses including Trane® and Thermo King®, we create innovative climate solutions for buildings, homes, and transportation that challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. We're a team that dares to look at the world's challenges and see impactful possibilities. We believe in a better future when we uplift others and enable our people to thrive at work and at home. We boldly go.

**The Material Planner is an active team member in planning and scheduling the delivery of material from suppliers. This highly tactical position is responsible to monitor the flows of buy items, guarantee availability of components in order to avoid material shortages and production downtime, as well as to manage inventory levels to meet our customer service and inventory targets.**

**Company**

**TCM S.r.l. is located in Bari, it is part of Trane Technologies since 2017 and designs, produces and distributes chiller and heat pumps.**

**Creativity, technological innovation and focus on research are the key principles that guide TCM in the realization of sustainable comfort for the wellness of people, by proposing products aimed at maximum customer satisfaction.**

**Position Responsibilities**:
**Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.**
- **Perform timely, cost-conscious procurement of production/inventory/MRO items.**:

- **Receive and analyze requisitions to determine quantity, specifications and delivery requirements.**:

- **From approved supplier list, recommend and select suppliers to fulfill scheduled plant deliveries.**:

- **Responsible for the on-boarding of new selected suppliers relative to material planning.**:

- **Ensure up-to-date ABC classification is maintained for planning, and other key inputs into the PFEP process**:

- **Ensure optimal inventory levels and safety stock are maintained for their parts**:

- **Coordinate with Quality Assurance to resolve quality issues with suppliers.**:

- **Maintain proactive shortage identification and management - help flag root causes & corrective actions.**:

- **Identify total cost and cash flow opportunities with suppliers.**:

- **Analyze and select parts for KanBan and Supplier replenishment.**:

- **May lead and direct others to accomplish desired organizational objectives.**:

- **Expedite deliveries to meet and exceed scheduled critical requirements.**:

- **Maintain material plan at the time fence to ensure continuity of supply.**:

- **Coordinate with production planners for solutions when parts cannot be delivered as promised.**:

- **Maintain and continuously evaluate supplier performance and escalate to Procurement when issues occur.**:

- **Resolve invoicing discrepancies with suppliers and accounting.**:

- **Analyze material and capacity availability to provide customer promise dates for sales orders.**:

- **Maintains item master lead time information based upon process improvements, current constraints, total current demand by product family, and priority information.**:

- **Manage internal and SOMI/VMI material to meet schedules.**:

- **Interface with required functional groups to resolve challenging delivery requirements.**:

- **Communicate forecasts and replenishment plans to supplier.**:

- **Review open requirements, monitoring vendor performance and expediting where necessary. Ensure that problems relating to delivery, quality or pricing are promptly conveyed to the supplier and resolved in a timely manner.**:

- **Productivity: identify and implement cost reduction/productivity projects to meet the corporate initiatives/goals. Maintain pipeline and financial records for reporting and tracking productivity.**

**Key Competencies and Success Factors**:
**To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.**
- **Maintain product knowledge in terms of options, substitutions, critical functions/components, etc.**:

- **Understand material specifications in terms of substitutions, quality, engineering requirements, etc.**:

- **Maintain basic knowledge of supplier processes and capabilities.**:

- **Understand special test/witness certification requirements and actions to achieve certification.**:

- **Understanding of Kanban and JIT systems.**:

- **Able to rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.**:

- **Broad working knowledge and experience with ISO procedures.**:

- **Must possess a strong customer service orientation and must provide dedicated support of internal and external customer requirements.**:

- **Relationship Management
- Works collaboratively with cross-functional stakeholders - Team player who demonstrates patience, flexibility and honesty**:

- **Self-starter, who is able to plan and manage his/her own work, takes initiative and strives to meet deadlines**: