Planner Scheduler

Flex; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Flex seeks a Planner Scheduler based in Salt Lake City, Utah, reporting to the Material Planning Analyst. You will help material and production functions by planning, scheduling, coordinating, and approving product releases to planning systems based on material and capacity availability.

You will check resource feasibility, prepare production plans, monitor deviations, and generate KPI reports while supporting SCM and order desk activities within the CFT.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent and a minimum of 1 years of related experience.
• Demonstrates operations and technical skills and comprehension of Flex's functional standards.
• Demonstrates a general knowledge of functional concepts and a rudimentary comprehension of Flex policies and procedures.
• Has awareness of the functional impact upon work processes and other functions.
• Ability to operate data entry, office software including, word processing, spreadsheets, presentation packages and data base systems.

Responsibilities

• Check order feasibility based on available resources and confirm the order.
• Prepare production plans and input planning data into the company system; notify purchasing.
• Monitor plan execution and take action for deviations.
• Prepare long-term plans and forecasts (MPS, Forecast).
• Monitor system accuracy in daily/weekly cycles; review item data and routing.
• Prepare clean-to-build reports; check material availability and replanning.
• Monitor stock levels and address stock differences.
• Prepare management and KPI reports for CFT; support schedule adherence.
• Provide backup to SCM and Order Desk within the CFT.
• Advise non-exempt associates on daily customer priorities and ship-date performance.

Skills

Data entry

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)

Job description

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Flex intends to spin off its Cloud and Power Infrastructure segment into a new, independent publicly traded company, Axiom, with the spin planned for Q1 2027. If the intended spin occurs, this role will support Axiom, a company focused on critical digital infrastructure and delivering end-to-end power and thermal management solutions for AI data centers and other mission-critical applications.

Summary

The "Planner Scheduler" will be based in Salt Lake City, Utah reporting to Material Planning Analyst. This role will be In charge of helping materials and production functions. Plans, schedules, coordinates and approves product release to the production planning systems based on material and capacity availability.

Responsibilities

• 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 1 years of related experience.
• Demonstrates operations and technical skills and comprehension of Flex's functional standards.
• Demonstrates a general knowledge of functional concepts and a rudimentary comprehension of Flex policies and procedures.
• Has awareness of the functional impact upon work processes and other functions.
• Ability to operate data entry, office software including, word processing, spreadsheets, presentation packages and data base systems.

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