Logistics Planner (f/m/d)

Excelitas Technologies Corp.; Deutschland; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

SAP training

Job summary

Excelitas Technologies Corp. Göttingen site seeks a seasoned Production Planning professional to lead strategic planning across customer segments and international sites. You will coordinate materials management, scheduling, and delivery scenarios while ensuring on-time performance.

Role requires extensive production planning and logistics experience, strong SAP skills, and fluency in German and English. The position emphasizes cross-functional collaboration and proactive risk management in a

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering, business administration, or comparable qualification with production planning experience.
• Extensive international experience in production planning, procurement, and logistics processes.
• In-depth knowledge of materials management.
• Structured, solution-oriented approach; capable of cross-functional work.
• Fluent in German and English; strong communication and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Strategic production planning in collaboration with customer segments, considering capital tied up, delivery capacity, and on-time delivery.
• Logistical support for new projects through materials management and scheduling.
• Collaborate with business segments to develop and evaluate delivery scenarios; coordinate with international sites.
• Serve as central logistics contact in national and international contexts; coordinate interfaces between customers and production plants.
• Define, analyze, and monitor logistics KPIs; implement improvements.
• Take responsibility for cross-department logistics issues; manage measures to sustainable implementation.
• Identify risks and bottlenecks; coordinate countermeasures with stakeholders.
• Ensure transparent communication and escalation of critical issues to internal/external contacts.

Skills

Production planning

Logistics management

International logistics

SAP

German language

English language

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Engineering degree

Business administration degree

Comparable qualification

Tools

SAP

ERP systems

Job description

ENABLE your future through light.

Excelitas is a global technology leader, focused on delivering market-driven solutions to fulfill the illumination, optical, detection and imaging needs of OEMs and end-users across the biomedical, semiconductor, industrial, consumer products, scientific, security and aerospace sectors.

ENGAGE with us today and make your contribution to the future! Join the team that leading technology companies turn to for cutting-edge photonic innovation. At Excelitas Technologies you are how we EXCEL.

Our Excelitas site in Göttingen is the centre of excellence for the development and production of photonics solutions for the semiconductor equipment market. For this highly demanding market, the Göttingen site supplies highly complex opto-mechanical modules, subsystems and components for applications in lithography, wafer inspection, chip bonding and packaging.

In addition, this site manufactures and supplies a broad range of optical and mechanical components, including complete optical systems, to support scientific research and development as well as industrial production.

Your Tasks

• Strategic production planning in collaboration with the relevant customer segments, taking into account capital tied up, delivery capacity, and on-time delivery
• Logistical support for new projects, particularly through materials management to ensure availability, as well as timely and quantity-based scheduling and production control
• Close collaboration with the business segments to develop and evaluate delivery scenarios, including coordination with international production sites
• Serve as the central logistics contact in both national and international contexts, and coordinate interfaces between customers, functional departments, and production plants
• Define, analyze, and monitor logistics key performance indicators (KPIs), and derive and implement appropriate improvement measures
• Taking responsibility for logistics issues that span departmental boundaries, as well as actively managing and tracking measures through to their sustainable implementation
• Proactively identifying risks and bottlenecks, and initiating and coordinating appropriate countermeasures in close coordination with relevant stakeholders
• Ensuring transparent communication and escalation of critical issues to internal and external contacts

Your Profile

• A degree in engineering or business administration, or a comparable qualification with relevant professional experience in production planning
• Extensive (international) experience in production planning, procurement, and logistics processes
• In-depth business knowledge in materials management
• An understanding of complex workflows and processes, as well as a structured and solution-oriented approach to work
• Flexibility, resilience, assertiveness, and the ability to get things done
• Strong interpersonal skills, excellent communication skills, and a team-oriented mindset
• Very good knowledge of SAP and user proficiency
• Very good command of German and English

We welcome suitable applications regardless of gender, cultural and social background, age, religion, ideology, disability or sexual identity.

Excelitas is seeking leaders and innovators to join our global team!

Visit: https://jobs.excelitas.com/