Planning & Inventory Administrator II

Celestica; Richardson (TX); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica, Inc. in Richardson, TX, is seeking a Planning Administrator 2 to support the SCM team. The role involves assisting in releasing shop orders, tracking builds, and coordinating with manufacturing to meet customer commitments.

The incumbent will maintain data integrity, perform MRP for lower value components, and manage small planning projects, ensuring timely delivery and accurate reporting.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Production planning

Scheduling

MRP

Data entry

Attention to detail

Communication

Organization

Problem solving

Education

Post-high school coursework

Job description

Celestica, Inc. in Richardson, TX, is seeking a Planning Administrator 2 to support the SCM team. The role involves assisting in releasing shop orders, tracking builds, and coordinating with manufacturing to meet customer commitments.

The incumbent will maintain data integrity, perform MRP for lower value components, and manage small planning projects, ensuring timely delivery and accurate reporting.