Planner scheduler

Flex; Permatang Pauh; On-site; MYR 20,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global manufacturing company located in Penang is seeking a Planner Scheduler to support production functions. The role involves planning, scheduling, and coordinating product releases based on material availability. Candidates should have a bachelor's degree and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience. This position offers a full range of medical benefits, paid time off, and additional allowances. It's an excellent opportunity to drive process improvements and manage important customer programs.

Benefits

Full range of medical benefits

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Allowances & bonuses

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of related experience in scheduling or planning.
• Ability to coordinate and manage customer programs effectively.

Responsibilities

• Plan, schedule, and coordinate product release to production.
• Monitor implementation of plans and address deviations.
• Prepare production plans and ensure material availability.

Skills

Basic people management skills

Process management skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Planner Scheduler located in Prai, Penang.

This role will be in charge of helping materials and production functions. It plans, schedules, coordinates and approves product release to the production planning systems based on material and capacity availability.

What a typical day looks like

• Checking the possibility of the order fulfillment based on the available resources (materials, employees, equipment’s etc.), confirmation of the order.
• Preparation of production plans, input of planning data into the integrated computer system of the company, notification of the purchasing group.
• Monitoring, control of implementation of plans, starting necessary actions in case of deviations.
• Preparation of long-term plans, forecasts (MPS, Forecast).
• Monitoring of system accuracy in daily/weekly bases /General Item data, routing, BOM, CFT data /non-consumed demand, planned WO's.
• Preparing of Clean to build reports, checking the material availability, replanning if necessary, informing of order desk, ECO implementation tracing.
• Monitoring of stock level, handling of stock differences.
• Preparing management and CFT specificized reports, monitoring of KPI's.
• Giving assistance, replacement in certain cases to SCM and Order desk within the CFT.
• 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 and manages high-visibility and/or important customer programs.
• May include initial customer or product startup initiatives or large customer programs.
• 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.
• 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.
• Represents Order Management on various Customer Focus Teams.
• May also help inventory control, supply chain management, material planning, and scheduling.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent and a minimum of 5 years of related experience.
• Demonstrates basic people and/or process management skills.

Benefits

• Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Allowances & Bonuses*

Job Category

Global Procurement & Supply Chain

Required Skills

Required Skills:

Optional Skills

Optional Skills:

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