05 - Planning Administrator 2

Celestica Inc.; Northlake (TX); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica, Inc. is seeking a Planning Administrator 2 in Northlake, TX, to support production planning and inventory management. You will assist planners with shop orders, track builds, and ensure timely shipments while maintaining data accuracy.

The role requires 4–6 years of relevant experience, with basic knowledge of MRP and planning fundamentals. Strong communication and multitasking abilities are essential in this fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Four to six years of relevant experience.
• Educational requirements may vary by geography.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining detail and meeting deadlines.
• Knowledge of production planning, scheduling, and MRP basics.

Responsibilities

• Assists the Associate Planners in releasing shop orders, checking for parts, tracking builds, ensuring timely shipment and working with manufacturing on issues.
• Maintains data integrity, ensuring shop orders close and customer commits are met.
• Performs materials requirements planning for lower value components.
• Ensures planning parameters are set correctly and the MRP orders required parts.
• Manages smaller planning projects including customer interface, ensuring cards are sorted and tested, and shipments coordinated.
• Planning for test capacity, sort capacity, and on-time delivery when needed.
• Maintains reports for customers and coordinates distribution of reports.
• Creates part shorts reports for planners and initiates cycle counts to reset inventory records.
• Coordinates and schedules production lines according to customer requirements and tracks efficiency.

Skills

Data integrity

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Math/10-key skills

Education

Additional courses after High School

Tools

Basic computer applications

Job description

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05 - Planning Administrator 2

Date: Sep 22, 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

Summary

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.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Celestica's policy on equal employment opportunity prohibits discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran or disability status, or other characteristics protected by law.
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.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

Celestica, Inc. (NYSE: CLS; TSX: CLS) is a technology leader dedicated to driving customer success and market advancements. With deep expertise in design, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and platform solutions, Celestica enables critical data center infrastructure for AI, cloud, and hybrid cloud and advances technologies in high-growth markets. With a talented team and a strategic global network, Celestica helps its customers achieve competitive advantages.

Today, Celestica delivers innovative supply chain solutions globally to customers in strategic two operating and reporting segments: Advanced Technology Solutions (ATS) and Connectivity and Cloud Solutions (CC):

ATS: This segment serves customers in complex, regulated and high-reliability markets such as Industrial & Smart Energy, Aerospace & Defense, Semiconductor Capital Equipment, and HealthTech. It is engineering led, with deep expertise in design, manufacturing and lifecycle solutions.

CCS: This segment focuses on high-performance technology solutions and services for the data center, serving hyperscalers, digital native customers and enterprises. Celestica's Platform Solutions offering provides innovative and customizable computing, storage and networking solutions enabling AI-driven growth.

Built on a legacy of trust and performance, Celestica has earned its reputation by delivering results in complex and fast-changing markets. Celestica exceeds customer expectations by identifying trends and staying ahead of the curve. Backed by comprehensive capabilities and a global network across North America, Europe and Asia, Celestica helps customers gain competitive advantage with the quality, flexibility and resiliency they need to respond quickly to shifts in demand. Guided by a bold vision to accelerate market advancements, Celestica delivers innovative solutions and technologies that turn complexity into opportunity. Anchored in teamwork and commitment, Celestica strives to be the most trusted partner to its customers and colleagues worldwide.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.
Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.

This location is a US ITAR facility and these positions will involve the release of export controlled goods either directly to employees or through the employee's movement within the facility. As such, Celestica will require necessary information from all applicants upon an applicant's acceptance of employment to determine if any export control exemptions or licenses must be filed.