Production Planning Administrator

Celestica Inc.; Richardson (TX); On-site; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica Inc. is seeking a Production Planning Administrator in the Richardson, TX area to support planning and shop floor activities. The role involves coordinating release of shop orders, tracking builds, ensuring timely shipment and maintaining data integrity to meet customer commitments.

The candidate will perform MRP for lower value components, set planning parameters, and interface with Manufacturing to ensure on-time delivery. Strong Excel and data-entry skills are preferred.

Qualifications

• Assists the Associate Planners in releasing shop orders, checking for parts, tracking builds, ensuring timely shipment.
• Maintains 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.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates and schedules production lines according to customer requirements, tracks efficiency, and interfaces with Manufacturing.
• Creates and updates various customer order sets and reports, spreadsheets, and sends reports to customers.
• Manages small planning projects (e.g., Field Replacement Units), including customer interface and shipments coordination.
• Supports planning for test and sort capacity and on-time delivery.

Skills

Production planning fundamentals

Scheduling

Materials requirements planning (MRP)

Manufacturing control systems

Purchasing practices

Basic computer applications

10-key skills

Data entry accuracy

Communication skills

Education

Additional courses after High School

Tools

Spreadsheets

Job description

Production Planning Administrator

Date: Aug 22, 2026

Summary

Incumbents may determine best methods and procedures to follow to complete assignments. Tasks are very complex in nature where considerable judgment and initiative are required in resolving problems and making recommendations. Decisions/actions may have an impact on the departments goals and may go beyond the department. Works under minimum Supervision. Situations not covered by standard processes, procedures and methods are referred to manager or expert resource. May provide functional guidance to others performing similar work. May be considered the expert in areas assigned. Builds internal and external relationships that require exchanging information and providing some explanations in a problem solving capacity.

Detailed Description

• 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.

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.

Nearest Major Market: Dallas
Nearest Secondary Market: Fort Worth
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