Materials Specialist - Materials Planning and Execution (Aerospace)

Location: United States of America; Remote. The role is primarily office-based with regular interaction in manufacturing and warehouse environments, plant-floor walkthroughs, occasional lifting up to 25 pounds, and occasional travel to suppliers, warehouses, or company facilities.

Company

Crane Aerospace & Electronics is part of Crane, a global provider of mission-critical, highly engineered products and solutions serving aerospace and other industrial markets.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain material requirements plans using production schedules, customer demand, forecasts, inventory targets, safety stocks, lead times, and reorder points.
• Monitor material availability, shortages, excess inventory, supply risks, inventory trends, and service levels; execute cycle counts, adjustments, and material disposition activities.
• Release and manage planned orders, work orders, purchase requisitions, and transfer orders; expedite critical materials and support production recovery plans.
• Coordinate with sourcing, procurement, suppliers, manufacturing, operations, quality, engineering, finance, and logistics teams on deliveries, allocations, shortages, and corrective actions.
• Analyze planning and inventory metrics, identify root causes, maintain material master data, and support ERP, MRP, SIOP/S&OP, NPI, engineering change, and product transition activities.
• Provide material status updates and participate in continuous improvement focused on inventory optimization, lead-time reduction, and process standardization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 2–5 years of experience in materials planning, production planning, inventory management, supply chain, manufacturing, or related roles.
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems such as SAP, Oracle, LN, QAD, JDE, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar platforms.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and data analysis tools.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Nice to have

• APICS/ASCM certification such as CPIM or CSCP.
• Experience in discrete manufacturing, industrial products, aerospace, or engineered-to-order environments.
• Understanding of SIOP/S&OP, demand planning, inventory optimization, and lean manufacturing principles.
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or related reporting tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment within a process-focused organization using the Crane Business System.
• Work emphasizes ethics and integrity, customer focus, accountability, measurable execution, continuous improvement, and employee development.
• Regular interaction with manufacturing and warehouse environments is required despite the remote workplace designation.