Strategic Production Planner & Inventory Optimizer

Advantest America; United States; On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Advantest America is seeking a Planning & Scheduling Specialist to develop, maintain, and optimize production plans in electronics manufacturing. You will ensure on-time delivery, coordinate demand, capacity, and materials across SMT, assembly, testing, and packaging.

Collaborate with production, engineering, purchasing, and quality teams to balance workloads, drive schedule stability, and improve throughput.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed production schedules based on demand forecasts, customer orders, material availability, and capacity constraints.
• Maintain and update the Master Production Schedule (MPS) and shop floor schedules.
• Balance workloads across SMT, assembly, testing, and final packaging operations.
• Coordinate with purchasing and material planning to ensure component availability and mitigate shortages.
• Track work order progress and provide real-time schedule adjustments to handle downtime, holds, or delays.
• Communicate schedule changes to production supervisors, customer service, and management.
• Analyze bottlenecks and implement planning best practices to improve flow and capacity stability.
• Maintain inventory accuracy, cycle counts, and alignment with ERP transactions.

Job description

Advantest America is seeking a Planning & Scheduling Specialist to develop, maintain, and optimize production plans in electronics manufacturing. You will ensure on-time delivery, coordinate demand, capacity, and materials across SMT, assembly, testing, and packaging.

Collaborate with production, engineering, purchasing, and quality teams to balance workloads, drive schedule stability, and improve throughput.