Sr. Production Control

Jabil; Guadalajara; On-site; MXN 6,462,000 - 9,601,000; Full time

Job summary

Jabil is seeking a Materials Planner to control production batches and bridge planning with inventory control to optimize finished goods output. The role focuses on minimizing overproduction, ensuring material availability, and supporting timely customer deliveries.

Ideal candidates have 4–6 years in materials, a Bachelor degree, and APICS certification or equivalent experience. This position requires working on site with strong collaboration across planning and production teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree required.
• 4-6 years of experience in materials function.
• APICS certification, Inventory Control, and experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Minimize excess inventory and coordinate with planning to meet shipping dates.
• Lead order processing activities for major customer units.
• Monitor and address issues affecting ship date, lead-time, inventory goals.
• Plan, schedule, and approve product release to production planning systems.
• Supervise production launches and engineering changes to meet customer deliverables.

Skills

ERP/MRP

Materials planning

Communication skills

PC skills

Jabil software packages

Reading documents

Education

Bachelor Degree

APICS certification

Tools

Jabil software packages

Job description

At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world’s top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

JOB SUMMARY

Responsible to control production batches, being the interface of planning and inventory control to have the proper mix and quantity produced to satisfy finish goods production plan, preventing over production of units to minimize Jabil liability and continuously improve the performance of the WIP DII (Materials KPI).

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with Planning and IC to minimize the excess of inventory in the production line, such as semi-finish goods and raw material.
• Leads order processing activities for major customer units.
• Advises non-exempt associates regarding day-to-day priority of customer requests.
• Monitors and proactively addresses issues that impact performance to committed ship date (CSD), lead-time, response time, and inventory goals.
• Coordinates with Master Scheduler to manage product life cycle and related materials availability issues.
• Drives process improvements inside and outside the area of Order Management.
• Plans, schedules, coordinates and approves product release to the production planning systems based on material and capacity availability.
• Supervise production launches, eliminations and engineering changes to assure the production plan comply Customer deliverables and avoid material obsolescence or intermediate storage accordingly.
• Support banking / buffering activities along with volume changes.
• Daily contact with supervisors and production leaders to monitor production plan, as well as being the link between Master Planner, Inventory Control and Manufacturing, for a correct execution and plan fulfillment.
• Provides input to management, reschedules, and /or interfaces with customer program management, master scheduling, customers and production control to reschedule production in the event of design changes, labor and material shortages, backlogs, and other potential schedule interruptions.
• May also support inventory control, supply chain management, material planning, and scheduling.

MANAGEMENT & SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Typically reports to Management. Direct supervisor job title(s) typically include: Materials Manager, Asst Materials Manager, Planning Manager, Asst Planning Manager, Planning Supervisor, Production Control Supervisor.
• Job is NOT directly responsible for managing other employees (e.g., hiring/termination and/or pay decisions, performance management).

JOB QUALIFICATIONS KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS

• Thorough knowledge of ERP/MRP
• 5-6 years of Materials-related experience.
• Advanced PC skills including knowledge of Jabil’s software packages
• Advanced PC skills including knowledge of Jabil’s software packages
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization, strong communication skills
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area,
• circumference, and volume.
• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
• Strong proficiency in determining logistics requirements to enable company’s business goals and objectives with ability to
• devise and implement strategy to achieve targets.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to operate a personal computer including using a Windows based operating system and related software.
• Advanced PC skills, including training and knowledge of Jabil’s software packages.
• Ability to write simple correspondence. Read and understand visual aid.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one- or two-step instructions.
• Ability to deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret graphs.
• Ability to understand manufacturing process

The physical demands describes here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Individual may be required to stand or walk for extended periods of time. Reaching, bending, and lifting up to 50 lbs.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those and employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Individual’s workstation is located in the stockroom on the manufacturing floor. The noise level in the work environment is moderate.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor Degree required
• 4-6 years of experience in materials function
• APICS certification, Inventory Control, and experience preferred.

Jabil, including its subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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