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Material Planner

Celestica (Chon Buri)
Chonburi, Thailand 🇹🇭
Celestica enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in aerospace and defense, communications, enterprise, healthtech, industrial, semiconductor capital equipment, and smart energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. A leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development - from the drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services. With talented teams across North America, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers. The Celestica Thailand facility has been established since 1995. Being Celestica’s biggest manufacturing site globally, we employ more than 5,000 employees. Our highly skilled teams produce high technology, high quality products for customers in the communications and enterprise market segments. With unrivalled expertise in high-mix low-volume manufacturing, direct fulfillment, reverse logistics and test development, we enable our customers to realize greater value, potential and outcomes.

About this position

The Material Planner is responsible for managing materials availability, production schedules, and inventory levels to support build plans throughout the product life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Communicates information on materials availability to support build plans throughout the product life cycle
• Manages issues associated with engineering changes to ensure minimal cost exposure, excess materials and risk to customer shipment
• Reviews and reports on aggregate levels of product inventory, inventory exposure
• Performs Master Production Schedule (MPS) / Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) inputs and validation
• Has responsibility for parameter management and reporting for designated products
• Coordinates shop order/production order releases and materials kitting requirements
• To plans, organizes, controls and executes a production schedule for a designated product or products including program coordination
• To develops production schedules based on actual and forecasted customer demand, product demand profiles and knowledge of the customer
• To analyzes inputs (e.g., capacity, board cycle times, urgency of request, material availability, etc.) to help determine schedule
• To analyzes internal impact (e.g., line scheduling, procurement, logistics, shipping, etc.) of customer scheduling
• To ensures quality and integrity of information used to generate materials requirements plan. Revises plans as required based on analysis of actual versus plan
• To manages issues associated with engineering changes to ensure minimal cost exposure, excess materials and risk to customer shipment
• To 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
• To maintains knowledge of customer volume fluctuations and determines the materials required
• To provides information to procurement on demand variances
• To develops and communicates short- and long-term commitments to customers to ship products
• To coordinates necessary resources to meet shipment commitments
• To reviews and reports on aggregate levels of product inventory, inventory exposure, backlog, availability and on-time delivery
• To develops recovery plans if missed shipments occur. Leads continuous improvement of planning processes

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or any other related fields
• 5-8 years of experienced in production planning, scheduling, materials requirements planning techniques and manufacturing control systems. (EMS : Electronics Manufacturing experienced will be advantaged)
• Basic knowledge of purchasing principles, techniques and philosophies will be an added advantage
• Knowledge of basic computer applications such as WORD, Excel, PowerPoint and multiple business applications
• Good analytical and statistical skills
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.

Benefits

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Huneety A.I Salary Estimate
40,000 - 55,000 THB per month