Material Planning Intern

About Base Base is America’s next-generation power company. We’re rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system. We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.

About the Role

Base designs its own hardware, builds it in its own factory, installs it at homes, and sells the power. That vertical integration is our advantage, and it means a single missing part can stop production. As a Material Planning Intern, you will own and plan material for a set of assigned parts, translate the production schedule into supply signals our suppliers can act on, and find shortages weeks before they reach the factory floor and coordinate with the manufacturing team. This is not a shadowing internship. You will be given parts to own, suppliers to talk to, and a production schedule that depends on you. The work sits between Manufacturing, Engineering, Procurement, Quality, and Logistics, and suits someone who thinks in systems, is comfortable acting on incomplete information, and likes building durable, robust processes.

What You’ll Do Own day-to-day material planning for assigned parts: run MRP, net demand against on-hand, on-order, and in-transit inventory, and keep purchase orders aligned to the build plan. Turn the production plan into rolling forecasts for suppliers, then track what they committed to against what actually arrived. Identify shortages and supply risk ahead of the floor, and escalate with the data behind it. Support material readiness for engineering changes and new parts — phasing new material in and clearing old material out. Dig into planning data: lead times, safety stock, order quantities, and supplier delivery performance. Recommend changes and show the math. Build and document one lasting improvement to how the team plans — a dashboa