Material Planner

Celestica; Kulai; On-site; MYR 78,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica is seeking a production planner to coordinate and execute schedules for designated products. You will analyze capacity, material availability, and demand to ensure on-time delivery while minimizing costs and inventory exposure.

The role requires strong analytical skills, proficiency in MRP concepts, and the ability to collaborate across procurement, logistics, and manufacturing teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Foundation in production planning and materials management.
• Familiarity with scheduling and MRP techniques.
• Understanding of procurement, logistics and line operations.

Responsibilities

• Plans, organizes, controls and executes a production schedule for designated product(s).
• Develops production schedules based on demand and customer needs.
• Analyzes inputs (capacity, cycle times, material availability) to help determine schedule.
• Assesses internal impact on line scheduling, procurement and logistics.
• Ensures data integrity for materials requirements planning.
• Revises plans as actuals differ from the plan.
• Manages issues from engineering changes to minimize cost exposure.
• Supports introduction of new products and transfers for deadlines.
• Communicates materials availability to support build plans.
• Monitors inventory levels, exposure and on-time delivery.
• Develops recovery plans if shipments are missed.
• Leads continuous improvement of planning processes.

Skills

Production planning

MRP basics

Scheduling

Manufacturing controls

Analytical skills

Cross-functional

Data analysis

Excel

Communication

Job description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Plans, organizes, controls and executes a production schedule for a designated product or products including program coordination.
• Develops production schedules based on actual and forecasted customer demand, product demand profiles and knowledge of the customer.
• Analyzes inputs (e.g., capacity, board cycle times, urgency of request, material availability, etc.) to help determine schedule.
• Analyzes internal impact (e.g., line scheduling, procurement, logistics, shipping, etc.) of customer scheduling.
• Ensures quality and integrity of information used to generate materials requirements plan.
• Revises plans as required based on analysis of actuals versus plan.
• Manages issues associated with engineering changes to ensure minimal cost exposure, excess materials and risk to customer shipment.
• Participates in the introduction of new products and supports the transfer/de-transfer of existing products through planning and analyzing common and unique materials in support of project deadlines.
• Communicates information on materials availability to support build plans throughout the product life cycle.
• Maintains knowledge of customer volume fluctuations and determines the materials required.
• Provides information to procurement on demand variances.
• Develops and communicates short- and long-term commitments to customers to ship products.
• Coordinates necessary resources to meet shipment commitments.
• Reviews and reports on aggregate levels of product inventory, inventory exposure, backlog, availability and on-time delivery.
• Develops recovery plans if missed shipments occur.
• Leads continuous improvement of planning processes.
• Facilitates development of processes and best practice models for outbound order fulfillment.
• Provides leadership and support to employees of NAOF.
• Makes decisions surrounding workload allocation and hiring practices.
• Provides expert role to other sites and other departments for North American Order Fulfillment models and practices.
• Provides training, guidance and may assign work to less experienced employees.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Basic knowledge of an electronic manufacturing environment, materials and processes.
• Basic knowledge of production planning fundamentals, scheduling, materials requirements planning techniques and manufacturing control systems
• Basic knowledge of purchasing principles, techniques and philosophies.
• Knowledge of basic computer applications such as WORD, Excel, PowerPoint and multiple business applications.
• Basic understanding of customer needs.
• Good analytical and statistical skills.
• Ability to plan strategically for the coordinated build and delivery of one or several products.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight time deadlines.
• Ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.