Celestica

Production Planner

Celestica$75K — $95K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • 4-6 years of relevant experience in supply chain management
  • Strong knowledge of electronics manufacturing processes
  • Good leadership and coaching skills
  • Proficient in MS Office and business applications
  • Excellent analytical and statistical skills
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks with attention to detail

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the master planning process for customer orders
  • Lead daily production control and managing production scheduling team
  • Develop and communicate production and shipment plans
  • Identify and implement business process enhancements
  • Track and report key supply chain metrics
  • Support production readiness for pilot runs and new products
  • Engage with multiple departments to coordinate planning and execution

Benefits

  • Involvement in a dynamic work environment
  • Opportunity to lead a team and develop skills further
  • Potential for career advancement within a large organization
  • Engagement with cross-functional teams and projects
  • Contributions to strategic labor and equipment decisions
Full Job Description
08 - Planning Team Leader 3 1 1
Req ID: 136751
Hiring Manager: Martha Hernandez Macias
Band: 08
Region: Americas
Country: USA
State/Province: Texas
City: Richardson

General Overview

Functional Area: Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Career Stream: Planning & Inventory (SCM_PNIV)
Role: Team Leader 3
Job Title: Planning Team Leader 3
Job Code: TL3-SCM-PLAN
Band: Level 08
Direct/Indirect Indicator: Indirect

Summary

This job is a first-level supervisor at a large site (800 employees) supervising ~25 - 50 ees or a non-supervisory team lead of a support function and typically reports into a second-level manager. Provides direct supervision to semi-skilled employees within a single function or work group. This includes establishing annual plans/objectives and interpretation of policies related to the functional area. Contributes to policy development. Work is performed within established professional standards and practices. Receives assignments in the form of tasks and goals and follows established processes to meet the goals of the unit. Executes budgets, develops schedules, and enforces policies and procedures. Erroneous decisions or failure to achieve results may have a negative impact on the divisions/departments operations, schedules, and/or performance goals. Provides immediate supervision to a unit or group of employees, assigning tasks and checking work at regular intervals. Directs subordinates to achieve assignments using established guidelines, procedures, and policies. Participates in the interviewing and hiring process. Reviews employees performance and recommends employee compensation; coaches for improved performance and recommends disciplinary action as necessary. Approves overtime schedules and working hours. Interacts directly with subordinates and peer groups; engages in routine exchanges of information; interactions with external contacts, if applicable, would be monitored.

Detailed Description

Oversees the master planning process for some/ all customers at the site. Provides leadership for daily production control, production readiness decisions and directing Production Scheduling team. Develops, plans, provides data, analysis, and recommendations to make strategic labour resource and equipment decisions. Interfaces with Business Office, IE, Production, Procurement, Planning and customers to compile, develop, validate, and communicate production/shipments plans that support overall business goals. Identifies business process enhancements and participates in their design and implementation. Coordinates planning on customer requirements, and changes in volumes. Tracks and reports key SCM metrics by customer by month. Develops and deploys new / enhanced planning process for SCM team. Supports site-wide production readiness of pilot production runs, new products, line re-assignment and engineering changes. May be involved in customer requested project initiatives.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

  • Good knowledge of an electronics manufacturing environment, material and processes
  • Good understanding of specific customers' business, organization, products and processes
  • Knowledge of basic computer applications such as WORD, Excel, PowerPoint and multiple business applications.
  • Good presentation skills.
  • Good analytical and statistical skills.
  • Good leadership and coaching 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.


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

  • Four to six years of 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 would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.
Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.

About Celestica

Celestica is a Canadian multinational electronics manufacturing services company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The company provides a range of services to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the aerospace and defense, communications, enterprise computing, healthcare, industrial, semiconductor, and smart energy industries. Celestica's services include design and engineering, supply chain management, assembly and testing, and after-market services. The company operates in North America, Europe, and Asia and has manufacturing facilities in over 10 countries. Celestica was founded in 1994 as a subsidiary of IBM Canada and became an independent company in 1997.
Learn more about Celestica
Size
23,915 employees
Market Cap
$1.3 billion
Industry
Founded
1994
5 Year Trend
-1.3%
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