Senior Planner (Production)

Production, Planning & Scheduling (Manufacturing, Transport & Logistics)

Full time

We are looking for candidates to fill multiple new permanent (full-time) Senior Production Planner roles, which are crucial for ensuring efficient manufacturing processes through proficient production scheduling, order fulfillment, and inventory management, all aimed at maximizing productivity and output.

As a Senior Production Planner at AE, you will play a critical role in supervising the Planning team, training new hires, ensuring on-time delivery of finished goods as scheduled by AE committed shipment date. You will improve AE's capability to meet customer delivery requirements by understanding BU capacity, identifying constraints, and actively reducing lead time.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Supervise planning team, give planners direction on company metrics.
• Schedules and manages (re-schedules) production work orders within demonstrated capacity. Works with production to achieve optimal capacity. Includes spare parts, service, and engineering where appropriate.
• Acknowledges and confirms ship dates for customer orders. Communicates with Customer Advocates to ensure commitment dates are achieved. Follows AE process to communicate changed commitment date to Customer Advocates.
• Provides daily status reports of all delivery requirements. Acts as the focal point for schedule information and adjustments with inputs from the BU Marketing Manager, Territory Manager, and/or the BU Operations Director.
• Coordinates and implements Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) in production.
• Develops and manages customer support plans to minimize work-in-process and finished goods inventory where appropriate.
• Analyzes long lead time parts and works with purchasing to develop custom supply solutions (e.g. point-of-use material, line-side stocking, Kanban, min-max supply, etc.).
• Works with Process Engineering, Test Engineering, Engineering, Engineering Services, Planning, Customer Support, Documentation, and work cells to implement ECOs. Ensures material availability prior to ECOs becoming active. Works with Materials on the disposition of remaining material. Coordinates ECO rework of assemblies in the manufacturing process.
• Adhere to organizational requirements on quality management, health and safety, code of conduct, legal stipulations, environmental, 5S policies, and general duty of care.
• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Thorough understanding of SAP or Material Requirements Planning (MRP), planning functions, and shop floor processes and materials.
• Ability to effectively interpret and summarize statistical reports.
• Excellent judgment and initiative, including the ability to effectively balance multiple priorities.
• Excellent understanding of true material lead times for all critical assemblies.
• Excellent computer skills, including accurate data entry and experience with PC applications, such as Word (word-processing), Excel (spreadsheet), ad hoc queries, and/or relational databases.

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum (5) years of experience working in a manufacturing and production arrangement as well as a new product introduction environment.
• Previous experience with SAP.
• Experience in a high mix/low volume, pull-based manufacturing environment.

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Management, Finance, Materials Management, Computer Information Sciences, or Engineering, or equivalent education and/or experience.
• Prefer American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) or CPM certification.

WHY JOIN US!

As part of our total rewards philosophy, we believe in offering and maintaining competitive compensation and benefits programs for our employees to attract and retain a talented, highly engaged workforce. Our compensation programs are focused on equitable, fair pay practices including market-based base pay, an annual pay-for-performance incentive plan.

In addition to our competitive compensation practices, we offer a strong benefits package in each of the countries in which we operate. In Malaysia, we offer a rich benefits package that includes:

• Medical - health care plan, dental, and vision.
• Short and long-term disability and life insurance.
• Executive Employee Health Screening package.
• Generous paid time off starting at 15 days and 19 public holidays.
• 98 days of paid maternity leave for Moms and 7 days of paid paternity leave for Dads.
• AE Child-Of-Employee Scholarship Program.
• Employee Referral Program.
• Career Growth and Learning Opportunity.

Your application will include the following questions:

• Which of the following types of qualifications do you have?
• Do you have experience with inventory management?
• What's your expected monthly basic salary?
• Which of the following Microsoft Office products are you experienced with?
• How many years' experience do you have as a Planner?
• Do you have experience completing material resource planning (MRP)?

Company Overview:

Advanced Energy shapes and transforms how power is used, delivered, and managed by some of the world’s leading semiconductor and industrial manufacturers.

We design and manufacture highly-engineered precision power, measurement, and control solutions for mission-critical applications and processes. Our power solutions enable innovation in complex semiconductor and thin film plasma processes, high and low voltage applications, and temperature-critical environments. From the multiple screens you use daily, to life-saving medical equipment and techniques, our products and solutions enable their development and advancement.

With deep applications know-how and responsive service and support, we build collaborative customer partnerships. Our solutions anticipate evolving industry developments, propel growth, and power the future of technology.