Logistics Planner

Minerals Technologies Inc.is a global technology-driven specialty minerals company that develops produces and markets a wide range of minerals and mineral-based products and services.

Our products are an essential part of everyday life for millions of people around the world. They are used in consumer goods in paper and packaging food and pharmaceuticals household and personal care pet care automotives and many more as well as in industrial settings like steelmaking metalcasting construction infrastructure and wastewater remediation.

We are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol MTX headquartered in New York City and have over 150 locations worldwide with 4000 employees in 34 countries and 12 R&D centers.

We put people at the center of everything we do -- working safely communicating openly and managing our resources and businesses responsibly.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring all loads are covered in a timely manner that are assigned to the Logistics Planner
• Scope of load planning Outbound & Inbound TL Rail LTL and Ocean (Prepaid & Collect)
• Communicate with Customer Service Operations and/or Sales team as needed regarding orders / shipments / issues etc.
• Monitor bulk planning process in OTM to minimize exceptions and orders that fail to plan/create shipments
• Identify trouble shoot and resolve exceptions in the load planning process
• Monitor tendering process and OTM shipment status to ensure all loads are tender accepted
• Communicate with carriers to ensure contractual obligations are met during tendering process
• Track shipments for on-time arrivals and departures and report accordingly
• Contact carriers as necessary to determine shipment status
• Collaborate with other team members
• Communicate and escalate when critical shipments do not have carrier coverage
• Identify and escalate recurring system issues to IT team
• Respond to e-mails/inquiries from internal customers such as customer service planning logistics operations teams sales
• Respond to e-mails/inquiries from external customers such as carriers
• Communicate with Purchasing and Suppliers in order to release POs for Inbound goods / materials to be planned in OTM
• Maintain Location (Ship To Customers Ship From Suppliers) information such as address calendar contacts etc
• Resolve freight invoice payment disputes / rejects
• Monitor / Assess and Manage carrier performance and perform supplier quality management audits with transport suppliers
• Responsible for providing logistics solutions based upon relative cost and benefits to meet customer needs
• Assess and recommend ideal shipping methods routing or carriers to meet necessary parameters specifications and costs
• Ensure that transportation modes frequency of transports and routing are as efficient and as cost effective as possible.
• Strategically planning and managing logistics warehouse transportation and customer services
• Executes overall logistics strategy as set by MTI
• Develops and maintains strong relationships with our logistics providers

Other Duties & Responsibilities:

The employee is expected to be self-directed take initiative and be persistent when appropriate to accomplish necessary duties without prompting. Additionally the employee is expected to be adaptable/flexible to changing work assignments analytical organized and detail-oriented perform multiple tasks at once compose correspondence and other documentation in a professional manner express ideas constructively actively listen to others manage time effectively and efficiently to meet deadlines display a cooperative attitude read understand and follow all company job specific and safety policies/procedures and attend/use all required training.

Note: Management reserves the right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Qualifications/Requirements:

The requirements listed in the sections that follow are representative of the knowledge skills and/or abilities required to perform the duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions (primary duties) of the job.

• BA/BS degree in Business or related field preferred
• Minimum of three - five years experience.
• Strong Oracle E-Business Suite Application knowledge a plus
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools
• Proven working experience in supply chain and logistics
• Record of successful distribution and logistics management
• Ability to work independently and handle multiple projects
• Ability to work in a dynamic team-based environment
• Able to manage time effectively
• Strong people skills analytical skills and business acumen
• Strong communication organizational and problem solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong knowledge of company practices structure policy and procedure or the ability to learn and retain quickly.
• Good management communication interpersonal and general business skills required along with strong mathematical analytical organizational and problem solving skills

Travel: Travel may occur domestically as required

Working Conditions: While performing the duties of this job the employee is typically required to regularly conduct work in a controlled office environment moving around the office as needed sitting at a desk using office equipment including but not limited to a personal computer fax machine copier and telephone read write listen speak and understand English have the ability to work independently be dependable and maintain confidential information integrity and composure at all times.

Constant contact with individuals internal and external to the organization occurs via various methods of communication typically including face-to-face discussions electronic mail phone calls written letters and/or faxes.

On an as needed basis there may be exposure to plant areas which include exposure to outside weather conditions as well as loud noise from equipment and dust from production processes.

Safety Training:A new employee hired to perform the duties of this position is required to be provided New Employee Training by a qualified individual or through the online training system. Additionally an employee must be provided further training if a job duty/task has changes that will affect the health and safety aspects of that employees position.

Additional refresher safety training will be required as management deems appropriate or as dictated by government regulations. Employee must have the ability to express complex technical concepts effectively both verbally and in writing and to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience.

EOE