Production Planner

Sanmina; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance coverage

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Company paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Sanmina Fremont is seeking a Production Planner to coordinate production workflow and optimize plans across multiple products. The role focuses on improving efficiency, reducing delays, and driving continuous improvement in material flow and capacity within a high-mix manufacturing environment.

Candidates should have 2+ years in materials planning, strong ERP/Oracle knowledge, and advanced Excel skills. The position is based in Fremont, CA and includes health and other benefits as part of a

Qualifications

• 2+ years of Materials Planning and master scheduling experience in manufacturing.
• Strong working knowledge of ERP planning systems (preferably Oracle).
• Advanced Excel skills including pivot tables and data modeling.

Responsibilities

• Analyze customer demand and optimize build plans for products.
• Review BOM structures and ensure alignment with manufacturing strategy.
• Release work orders timely and reconcile variances.
• Coordinate production planning to meet customer commitments and forecast.
• Drive continuous improvement in product flow and capacity.

Skills

Materials planning

Master scheduling

Advanced Excel

ERP planning systems

Oracle

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or Industrial Engineering

Job description

Job Description

Sanmina Corporation (Nasdaq: SANM) is a leading integrated manufacturing solutions provider serving the fastest-growing segments of the global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) market. Recognized as a technology leader, Sanmina Corporation provides end-to-end manufacturing solutions, delivering superior quality and support to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) primarily in the communications networks, defense and aerospace, industrial and semiconductor systems, medical, multimedia, computing and storage, automotive and clean technology sectors. Sanmina Corporation has facilities strategically located in key regions throughout the world.

The Sanmina Fremont facility is a full-service enclosure systems solution manufacturing plant. Located in California's Silicon Valley, this facility produces low-to-mid volume New Product Introduction (NPI) runs to full-scale volume. The Fremont facility offers everything from small piece parts to fully integrated and tested systems. In addition, this location offers in-house painting capabilities and flexible logistics solutions in distribution, inventory management and hubbing, as well as repair services.

Job Purpose

The Production Planner is responsible for production planning and coordinates production workflow for multiple products while prioritizing operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay. Will take a lead role in continuous improvement, product flow and capacity improvement to improve the overall efficiency of manufacturing.

Nature Of Duties/Responsibilities

• Analyzes customer demand and optimize build plans for specific products, keeping materials and resource requirements.
• Reviews new products/parts planning attributes and ensure they are correctly set up.
• Reviews BOM structures and ensure that they align with manufacturing strategy.
• Periodically reviews critical ERP planning attributes and keep them aligned.
• Review ECOs, prepare implementation plans and actually implement them.
• Releases required work orders in a timely manner and promptly closes them on completion after reconciling variances.
• Follows up materials shortages and production flow thru the plant to keep build plan on schedule.
• Plans and directs Production and Inventory Control for Operations to ensure customer commits and Inventor objectives are met
• Coordinates Operations planning process to ensure that there is material and capacity available to support both Customer commits and forecast
• Directs the Inventory team to ensure that process controls are in place that will allow accurate Cycle counting
• Coordinates the production team to ensure schedule and customer deliveries are met.
• Works directly with Purchasing to insure purchased material is available to meet the scheduled requirements
• Stays current with software development, provide on-site technical expertise for the ERP system and write ad-hoc reports as required
• Identifies software procedural improvements to the Operations process to eliminate waste
• Relays relevant information to management regarding material shortages, potential schedule interruptions, and possible equipment maintenance that would affect a smooth and timely production input
• Analyzes customer demand information, forecast, orders, labor, and material availability and develop a flexible yet efficient master schedule
• Review's part availability including quality approval prior to scheduling
• Manage the issuance of purchase orders as recommended by the planning system or as requested by management.
• Manage PO approval process, PO revisions, supplier confirmation and storage of all purchase orders on a secured and shared site.
• Manages supplier bidding process with the creation of RFQs submission to suppliers and summary returned information as requested by the Director of Manufacturing.
• Controls Supplier's compliance to on-time delivery, terms and conditions, supply contracts and product specifications.
• Participates as needed in the Product Specification creation/revision process and facilitates execution with suppliers.
• Drive sourcing solutions for existing products as directed by executive management.
• Manage assigned products by maintaining or reducing costs of product components, packaging and finished goods

Education And Experience

• 2+ years of Materials Planning and master scheduling experience, ideally within a contract manufacturing or fabrication environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Industrial Engineering, or a related field preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of ERP planning systems (preferably Oracle) and a deep understanding of critical planning attributes.
• Direct experience managing and implementing Engineering Change Orders (ECOs).
• Advanced Excel skills (e.g., complex formulas, pivot tables, data modeling).

This is an ITAR facility and applicant must be a US Citizen or a lawful permanent resident.

Sanmina is an Equal Opportunity Employer - M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

Salary Range (annual): $85,000 - $95,000. Actual base pay within this range (determined at the offer stage) will be based on a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, and skills, and is just one element of our total rewards package. The total rewards package also includes a variety of benefits, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business and, depending on the role, may include eligibility for restricted stock unit awards and participation in a discretionary bonus program.