Senior Planning & Inventory Administrator

Celestica; Richardson (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica seeks a Planning Administrator 2 in Richardson, TX to support scheduling and materials planning within the SCM function. You will assist with releasing shop orders, tracking builds, and coordinating with manufacturing to meet customer commitments.

The role requires data integrity, proficiency in MRP processes, and ability to manage multiple tasks with accuracy under tight deadlines. A focus on communication with internal and external stakeholders is essential.

Qualifications

• Basic knowledge of production planning fundamentals
• Knowledge of scheduling
• Knowledge of MRP techniques
• Knowledge of purchasing practices
• Ability to handle multiple tasks
• Attention to detail
• Effective communication with internal/external customers
• Efficiently organize and retrieve information

Responsibilities

• Assist Associate Planners in releasing shop orders, checking for parts, tracking builds, ensuring timely shipment and working with manufacturing on issues.
• Maintain responsibility for data integrity, ensuring shop orders get closed, and ensuring customer commits are met.
• Perform materials requirements planning for lower value components.
• Ensure planning parameters are set correctly, and the MRP is ordering required parts.
• Manage smaller planning projects (e.g. Field Replacement Units) including customer interface, ensuring cards are sorted and tested, and shipments 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 techniques

Manufacturing control

Purchasing practices

Basic IT skills

10-key data entry

Verbal/written communication

Documentation management

Education

Additional courses after High School

Job description

Celestica seeks a Planning Administrator 2 in Richardson, TX to support scheduling and materials planning within the SCM function. You will assist with releasing shop orders, tracking builds, and coordinating with manufacturing to meet customer commitments.

The role requires data integrity, proficiency in MRP processes, and ability to manage multiple tasks with accuracy under tight deadlines. A focus on communication with internal and external stakeholders is essential.