05 - Materials Coordinator

Celestica Inc.; Richardson, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica Inc. is seeking a Materials Coordinator to support planning and inventory activities in our SCM function. You will assist planners with shop orders, parts checks, and builds tracking while coordinating with manufacturing to meet delivery commitments.

The role emphasizes data accuracy, order closure, and routine reporting to customers. A focus on MRP, scheduling, and purchasing basics will help ensure timely parts availability and smooth production flow.

Qualifications

• Four to six years of relevant experience.
• Educational requirements may vary by geography.
• Basic math, data entry and 10-key skills.
• Knowledge of production planning fundamentals and scheduling basics.
• Familiarity with purchasing practices and ERP/MRP systems.

Responsibilities

• Assist planners in releasing shop orders, checking parts, tracking builds and coordinating with manufacturing.
• Maintain data integrity, close shop orders and meet customer commitments.
• Perform materials planning for lower value components.
• Ensure MRP orders required parts and adjust planning parameters.
• Coordinate production line schedules and interface with manufacturing.
• Create/update customer order sets and reports and distribute to customers.

Skills

MRP knowledge

Production planning

Scheduling

Purchasing basics

Data entry

10-key skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Education

High School + courses

Job description

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05 - Materials Coordinator

Date: Oct 9, 2026

General Overview

Functional Area: Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Career Stream: Planning & Inventory(SCM_PNIV)
Role: Administrator 2
Job Title: Planning Administrator 2
Job Code: AD2-SCM-PLAN
Band: Level 05
Direct/Indirect Indicator: Indirect

Detailed Description

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

• Assists the Associate Planners in releasing shop orders, checking for parts, tracking builds, ensuring timely shipment and working with manufacturing on issues.
• Maintains responsibility for data integrity, ensuring shop orders get closed, and ensuring customer commits are met.
• Performs materials requirements planning for lower value components.
• Ensures planning parameters are set correctly, and the MRP is ordering required parts.
• Manages smaller planning project (i.e. Field Replacement Units) including customer interface, ensuring cards are sorted and tested, and shipments are coordination.
• May also include planning for test capacity, sort capacity, and on time delivery.
• Maintains responsibility for creating/updating various customer order sets/reports, spreadsheets, sending out reports to customers, and maintaining these reports.
• Creates part shorts reports for planners. Initiates cycle counts for resetting inventory records.
• Coordinates and schedules production lines according to customer requirements, tracks efficiency and acts as interface with Manufacturing.
• Basic knowledge of production planning fundamentals, scheduling, materials requirements planning techniques and manufacturing control systems
• Knowledge of purchasing practices and procedures.
• Knowledge of basic computer applications and the ability to learn and use applications specific to this department.
• Basic math, data entry and 10-key skills.
• 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.
• Ability to efficiently organize, file and retrieve hard copy and electronic information relating to the business of the work unit.

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.

Typical Experience

• Four to six years of relevant experience

Typical Education

• Additional courses after High School, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Educational requirements may vary by geography.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

Celestica is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.
This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Celestica is an E-Verify employer.

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Nearest Secondary Market: Fort Worth
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