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Whether you’re an experienced professional, a recent college graduate or somewhere in between, IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact.\nWith interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you.\nLocation: Farmington, CT\nShift/Schedule: Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; occasional overtime as business needs require\nReports To: Manager, Supply Chain\nCoverage: Supports the High Purity, Pressed Parts, and Stamped Parts value streams and partners closely with Production, Purchasing, Customer Service, Quality, Engineering, and Finance.\nPosition Summary\nThe Materials Planner is responsible for translating demand, inventory targets, and production requirements into executable replenishment plans that support customer delivery, inventory health, and operational continuity. This role develops and maintains production schedules, releases and manages internal work orders, coordinates purchase order requirements with Buyers, and ensures replenishment actions are placed, confirmed, tracked, and received on time. The Planner plays a critical role in restoring and maintaining minimum safety stock levels across assigned value streams while proactively identifying material, capacity, supplier, and data constraints that could impact customer commitments.\nKey Responsibilities\nDevelop, maintain, and communicate daily and weekly production schedules based on customer demand, available capacity, material availability, labor, routings, changeovers, due dates, and value-stream constraints.\nTranslate demand, min/max, safety stock, and MRP signals into timely internal work orders and external purchase order requirements.\nRelease, maintain, and manage internal work orders from creation through completion, ensuring dates, quantities, routings, and material requirements remain accurate.\nPartner daily with Buyers to execute, confirm, expedite, and track open purchase orders, including supplier confirmations, promise dates, partial shipments, and exception items.\nMonitor inventory positions against minimum safety stock and replenishment targets; prioritize actions to close shortages and reduce risk to customer orders.\nIdentify and resolve constraints impacting production schedules, work orders, and replenishment plans, including supplier lead time changes, MOQ or pack-size issues, quality holds, engineering changes, capacity limitations, and material shortages.\nCoordinate with Customer Service to provide accurate order status, recovery plans, and delivery date commitments; support improvement of sales order confirmation cycle time to less than 72 hours.\nMaintain planning master data accuracy in ERP/MRP, including item planning settings, lead times, safety stock, order multiples, reorder points, sourcing information, and planning policies aligned to PFEP.\nSupport SIOP and demand review activities by providing accurate supply status, inventory risks, capacity concerns, and recovery actions for assigned value streams.\nMonitor delivery performance, critical shortages, aged work orders, open purchase orders, and schedule adherence; drive timely follow-up and escalation where required.\nPublish routine reporting on safety stock attainment, replenishment progress, shortage recovery, inventory health, and schedule execution by value stream.\nSupport inventory accuracy through disciplined transaction management, cycle count follow-up, root cause analysis, and correction of recurring planning or data issues.\nPartner with Operations, Purchasing, Quality, Engineering, and Customer Service to reduce recurring shortages, improve replenishment discipline, and strengthen standard work for planning processes.\nRequired Qualifications\nThree or more years of materials planning, production planning, inventory planning, supply planning, or procurement support experience in a manufacturing environment.\nWorking knowledge of MRP principles, including lead times, order policies, demand signals, safety stock, min/max levels, reorder points, and order multiples.\nExperience creating, releasing, and managing production work orders and purchase order requirements.\nAbility to evaluate material availability, capacity constraints, and inventory risks and translate them into clear action plans.\nStrong Excel skills, including filters, pivot tables, lookups, and data analysis to identify gaps, exceptions, and replenishment priorities.\nStrong communication skills with the ability to align Production, Purchasing, Customer Service, Quality, and Engineering on priorities and recovery actions.\nAbility to operate effectively in a fast-paced manufacturing environment with changing priorities while maintaining accuracy, urgency, and professionalism.\nHigh attention to detail and strong discipline in maintaining ERP/MRP master data, planning parameters, and transaction accuracy.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience building, maintaining, or improving min/max, kanban, or other replenishment planning parameters in a manufacturing environment.\nExperience in high-mix, low-volume manufacturing with complex routings, variable demand, and a broad SKU base.\nExperience coordinating supplier confirmations, lead time updates, expedites, and recovery plans in partnership with Buyers.\nExposure to SIOP, capacity planning, finite scheduling, or advanced planning and scheduling tools.\nLean or continuous improvement experience, including standard work, daily management, visual controls, problem solving, and root cause corrective action.\nAPICS/ASCM CPIM, CSCP, or related supply chain certification preferred but not required.\nSystems & Tools\nERP/MRP: NetSuite preferred, or comparable ERP experience with production work orders, item planning parameters, purchase order requirements, and planning modules.\nPlanning tools: Experience with demand planning, material requirements planning, production scheduling, or advanced planning and scheduling software.\nReporting and analysis: Microsoft Excel required; Power BI or similar reporting experience preferred.\nCommunication and collaboration: Outlook and Teams; ability to lead effective daily scheduling, shortage review, and replenishment follow-up meetings.\nAre you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?\nTotal Rewards\nThe compensation range for this position is $78,200.00 - $117,200.00, depending on experience. This position may be eligible for performance based bonus plan.Benefits Package\nOur comprehensive U.S. benefit offerings include: Health benefits, 401(k) retirement savings program with company match, PTO, and more. More information on our benefits and rewards can be found on our career page: https://www.idexcorp.com/careers/our-benefits-and-rewards/\nIDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.\nAttention Applicants: If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please let us know. Likewise, if you are limited in the ability to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, we will determine an alternate way for you to apply. Please contact our Talent Acquisition Team at  for assistance with an accommodation. These contact tools may be used only by individuals with a disability for accommodation requests. 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