Plant MRO Planner

Garrett Advancing Motion is the true pioneer of automotive powertrain technologies dating back more than 60 years. It continues today as the world’s leader in technology solutions for passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and off-highway equipment. Garrett supplies technology to nearly all major automakers in addition to the global aftermarket under the Garrett brand name. As a result, unlike many other OEM or supplier organizations, Garrett Advancing Motion has visibility across a broad range of OEM’s and Tier 1 suppliers. 

The Plant MRO Planner will be responsible for ensuring seamless logistics and planning activities related to MRO items, acting as point of contact between cross functions and stakeholders, ensuring materials are well scheduled, evaluated and accurately delivered on time. The Plant MRO Planner will also solve escalations and achieve metrics while improving processes and driving inventory targets. 

Responsibilities include:

• MRO Supply Planning
  • Advise responsible personnel of any problems, delays, etc., that could affect plant operations or delivery of product to customers.Stock, control and inventory tools and parts to support equipment maintenance and repairs.
  • Work closely with operations representatives to determine best items, suppliers, and prices to purchase in support of company goals.
  • Ensure timely and efficient delivery of goods and services based on POs specifications.
  • Analyze usage history of inventory stock items, and determine ordering requirements. 
  • Maintain and review MRO master data (MIN/MAX, re-order level, safety stock, etc.) in line with quarterly consumption to generate PurReq and accordingly manage re-orders, and shop supplies.  
  • Identify excess, slow move, and obsolete inventory issues and resolve them along with Physical Flow and Inventory Analyst. 
  • Provide support for the production transfers and the introduction of new reference points in production. 
  • Provide the  ssuance of reports, advising appropriate management function of status of parts flow or lack of.
  • Participate daily in the GVP team meetings and any other necessary meetings and call conferences. 
  • Know and work with specific planning instruments. 
  • Operate in SAP and other tools according to the existing procedures. 
  • Perform other duties as per assignment from direct management. 
  • Act according to the Garrett to conduct attributes and fulfil the performance objectives established by the manager through the MYR system. 
  • Observe the obligations and duties resulting from the management systems in production, quality, HS&E areas and other external and internal standards and regulations.  
  • Observe work rules and internal HS&E guidelines in the current wording. 
  • STRAP Alignment, AOP Alignment. 
• Health, security, environment, emergency situations
  • Perform the activity in accordance with own experience, knowledge and work instructions of the role, in a specific way no person is exposed to accidents or illnesses.
  • Utilize in a correct way the machines, equipment's, tools, dangerous substances, transportation vehicles or other production tools. 
  • Utilize in a correct way the individual protection equipment. 
  • Do not proceed with taking out of service, modification, changing or removing by own will the own security devices, especially in case of machines, equipment, tools, technical installations and buildings and use devices in a proper manner. 
  • Immediately inform the manager about any work situation which has reason to consider it a threat to the safety and health of workers, as well as any deficiency of protection systems. 
  • Cooperate, if necessary, with the employer and/or with the assigned workers, to enable the employer to ensure that the work environment and the working conditions are safe and without risks for their safety and health, in its field of activity. 
• GEM Requirements
  • Employee must respect, follow and support implementation of all GEM standards ( 6 Mains GEM Elements : 5S, Kaizen, RPS, Standard Work, TPM, 7 Waste + BIQ a Visual Management). Support and actively use digitization tools and automatic reporting and participate on continuous process improvement through Kaizen, KE and TKE (Improvement ideas). 
• Other Requirements
  • Employee must respect and follow all requirements of other internal Garrett procedures, which influence stated working activities. Employee performs other tasks according with company needs and links with job.  

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree 
• Minimum of 1-2 year experience on Warehouse, MRO, SC or operations activities
• Experience with SAP 
• Experience and understanding of the importance in maintaining an accurate parts inventory level and accuracy in a Maintenance Management Program

Additional Desired Qualifications:

• Key Skills and Knowledge:
  • Spanish or Portuguese are a plus 
  • Basic knowledge of Lean Manufacturing Principles
  • Knowledge of SAP, MHS modules, LMS, O9, processes (Demand planning, SIOP, MPS, BOM, MRP) and Microsoft Office applications
  • Cooperation with Global SC team
  • Understands Sales, Inventory & Operations Plan reports & analysis
  • Basic knowledge of production plan and inventory 
  • Identify and resolve problems in a timely manner
  • Handle multiple tasks at a time
  • Work well under pressure 
  • Good communicator & negotiation skills 
  • Responsible to meet commitments and targets / deadlines. 
  • Customer focused and pays attention to detail

Garrett is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, or veteran status.