Production Planner

Manufacturing field
- 5 days week
- Location: West
- Salary: up to $5,000

**DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Production planning & scheduling**
- Preparing of production schedule and prioritizes job-orders
- Ensure plan vs actual are achieved (SAP/MII monitoring)
- Review of production backlog & recovery-Close coordination with in-house production, assy planners, buyer to clear overdue backlog or make alternative plans towards fulfilling customer’s requirements
- Liaise with Operations group (including engineering & QA/AQP) to ensure that all quality obstacles are cleared to allow production
- Support MIE and coordinates with production for the samples run slot in.
- Review with subcon on components and raw material shortages respectively & closed loop liaison with assy planners on assembly production recovery or next best alternative

**Capacity alignment**
- Review between capacity required and the capacity actually available for the respective product lines’
- component planning per assembly planners’ production planning & also assembly planning.
- Highlight any deviation which may lead to adjustment of the capacity or of the delivery plan & to recommend capacity expansion or excess capacity re-deployment required for higher level decision making
- for foreseeable over
- or underutilization of production.
- Be a part and support GS&OP monthly cadence and Liaise with IE for correct work centers maintenance of parts.
- Planning to optimize available capacities (OEE/POEE performance tracking)

**Delivery & Lead time planning**
- To indicate what, when and in what amount is to be delivered from the factory/plant.
- Delivery planning is conducted with coordination between the Planning dept. & Product Marketing & constitute a link between production and sales & marketing where delivery planning depends on requirements of market & capacities of plant. To provide support for components & raw mat. requirements for new products development & actively participate in the implementation, monitoring and order completion process for projects transfer over to TTV from TTM for delivery planning related matters in terms of components positioning & selected assembly product lines.
- Liaise with QA & shipping department to execute shipments to customers, where necessary, for billing target to be achieved.
- To liaise with purchasing in the process of shipment of subcon components to support inhouse production.

**Inventory control management**
- Control of stock levels; prevention or detection of, and arrangement to reduce surplus inventories (a surplus inventory is a higher stock level than is necessary to cover future demand) and prevention of under-stocking which has a damaging effect on delivery ability.
- Minimize slow & excess inventory.
- Review between capacity required (derived from delivery planning) and the capacity actually available for the respective product lines’ planning requirement for raw mat. & components & selected assembly product lines.

**Material master update & maintenance**
- Responsible to ensure material master views relevant to PIC dept. are established & maintained for newly created & existing parts under his or her responsibility.
- Coordinate with IE and finance to Clean up OBS parts per the PCN due date
- Liaising with production for tooling disposition upon system OBS

**Reporting and Other responsibilities**:

- Analyze and prepare documents needed for production
- Capacity alerting for check & balance between cap available vs current & future demand
- Data analysis for inventory level, S&E control, Leadtime commitment
- Categorized of material or product line, slow moving, OBS, scrap proposal
- Review of exception reports, aging production orders and billing commitment weekly
- Support of the lean project/new system development and plant product pruning initiative for low utilized mcs.

**Other duties as assigned by Management**
- Minimum 5 years of experience
- Experience in Manufacturing environment
- Understanding of ERP system
- Hands on knowledge in SAP system