We are excited to announce an opening for a Material Planner in our Springfield VA location! This person will be responsible for supporting the material acquisition plans and must have the ability to work with the programs stakeholders in generating material requirements and providing the necessary support of acquisition plans from start to finish. Individual will be interfacing with Vendors Logistics Receiving Materials Management and Strategic Sourcing to ensure program milestones are met.
Primary Responsibilities.
- Works with Program team to ensure a streamlined procurement process of materials against program requirements to include using a credit card for micro purchases.
- Works with programs in generating material requirements and providing the necessary support of acquisition plans from start to finish.
- Works across multiple government and Leidos systems in a fastpaced environment
- Maintains reports and monitors material movement throughout manufacturing and inventory sequences.
- Coordinates forecasts workload expediting and acquisition priority with commodity/category team leadership.
- Provides advice to programs as to proper routes to acquire materials that will be to the greatest benefit of the program.
- Analyzes material requirements for leveraging opportunities supplier recommendations acquisition planning
- Engages supply chain (vendor to manufacturing) to determine optimal acquisition strategy.
- Manages production and delivery schedules
Basic Qualifications.
- Bachelors degree and 02 years of relevant experience or High School Diploma/GED with 24 years of relevant work experience.
- Candidates with experience in procurement AND/OR a combination of certifications training education or military experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
- Active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph clearance is required to be considered Microsoft Office knowledge and skills
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and work across multiple systems simultaneously
- Attention to detail
- Good organization and communication skills.
- Basic Excelexperience (Create workbooks create formulas applying formats sort and filter data etc)
Preferred Qualifications.
- Buying or supply chain management experience Experience using IBM Maximo or Deltek Costpoint
Original Posting:
March 31 2025
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $44200.00 $79900.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.