Production Planner

Celestica; Northlake (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica Northlake is seeking a Planner to manage production scheduling and materials planning for designated product lines. You will coordinate demand, monitor capacity, and align procurement and logistics to meet delivery targets.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and strong analytical, communication, and multitasking skills to work under tight deadlines in a manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Basic knowledge of an electronic manufacturing environment.
• Fundamentals of production planning, scheduling and MRP techniques.
• Familiarity with purchasing principles and supply chain concepts.
• Proficiency with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and business apps.
• Understanding of customer needs and expectations.
• Strong analytical and statistical skills.
• Ability to plan strategically for coordinated build and delivery.
• Ability to multitask with attention to detail and deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication across teams.

Responsibilities

• Plans, organizes, controls and executes a production schedule for designated products.
• Develops production schedules based on demand and forecast.
• Analyzes inputs such as capacity and material availability to determine schedules.
• Assesses internal impact on line scheduling, procurement and logistics.
• Ensures accuracy of materials requirements information.
• Revises plans based on actuals versus plan.
• Leads continuous improvement of planning processes.
• Supports outbound order fulfillment processes and training.

Skills

Planning fundamentals

Scheduling

Materials requirements planning

Manufacturing control systems

Purchasing principles

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Multitasking under deadlines

Problem solving

Customer focus

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Job description

07 - Planner 1

Req ID: 138257

Hiring Manager: Martha Hernandez Macias Band: 07

Region: Americas

Country: USA

State/Province: Texas

City: Northlake

General Overview

Functional Area: Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Career Stream: Planning & Inventory (SCM_PNIV)

Role: Analyst

Job Title: Planner

Job Code: ANA-SCM-PLAN

Band: Level 07

Direct/Indirect Indicator: Indirect

Summary

Incumbents are fully qualified to execute job/role accountabilities working independently on most aspects of the job. Work is performed within established professional standards and practices. Tasks are moderately complex in nature where judgment is required to complete recurring assignments independently and to determine the best methods to follow to complete assignments. Erroneous decisions or failure to achieve results may have a negative impact on the divisions/departments operations, schedules, and/or performance goals. Works under general Supervision. Situations not covered by standard processes, procedures and methods are referred to manager or expert resource. May demonstrate work methods to new employees. Builds internal and external relationships, with emphasis on those that facilitate the achievement of job/role accountabilities, such as relationships with key suppliers, customers and internal service.

Detailed Description

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

• Plans, organizes, controls and executes a production schedule for a designated product or products including program coordination.

• Develops production schedules based on actual and forecasted customer demand, product demand profiles and knowledge of the customer.

• Analyzes inputs (e.g., capacity, board cycle times, urgency of request, material availability, etc.) to help determine schedule.

• Analyzes internal impact (e.g., line scheduling, procurement, logistics, shipping, etc.) of customer scheduling.

• Ensures quality and integrity of information used to generate materials requirements plan.

• Revises plans as required based on analysis of actuals versus plan.

• Manages issues associated with engineering changes to ensure minimal cost exposure, excess materials and risk to customer shipment.

• Participates in the introduction of new products and supports the transfer/de-transfer of existing products through planning and analyzing of common and unique materials in support of project deadlines.

• Communicates information on materials availability to support build plans throughout the product life cycle.

• Maintains knowledge of customer volume fluctuations and determines the materials required.

• Provides information to procurement on demand variances.

• Develops and communicates short- and long-term commitments to customers to ship products.

• Coordinates necessary resources to meet shipment commitments.

• Reviews and reports on aggregate levels of product inventory, inventory exposure, backlog, availability and on-time delivery.

• Develops recovery plans if missed shipments occur.

• Leads continuous improvement of planning processes.

• Facilitates development of processes and best practice models for outbound order fulfillment.

• Provides leadership and support to employees of NAOF.

• Makes decisions surrounding workload allocation and hiring practices.

• Provides expert role to other sites and other departments for North American Order Fulfillment models and practices.

• Provides training, guidance and may assign work to less experienced employees.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Basic knowledge of an electronic manufacturing environment, materials and processes.

• Basic knowledge of production planning fundamentals, scheduling, materials requirements planning techniques and manufacturing control systems

• Basic knowledge of purchasing principles, techniques and philosophies.

• Knowledge of basic computer applications such as WORD, Excel, PowerPoint and multiple business applications.

• Basic understanding of customer needs.

• Good analytical and statistical skills.

• Ability to plan strategically for the coordinated build and delivery of one or several products.

• 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.

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.

• Occasional overnight travel may be required.

Typical Experience

• Two to Four years relevant experience

Typical Education

• Bachelor's degree in related field, or consideration of 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.