Sr. Production Planner

Ensures 100 percent on-time delivery of PCBA manufacture to production as scheduled by AE’s committed shipment date. Improves AE’s ability to meet customer delivery requirements by understanding BU capacity, identifying constraints, and actively reducing lead times (availability) by product. Minimizes AE’s investment in raw and finished material inventory where appropriate.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for the flow of PCBA through the production facility and subcontract manufacturers, ensuring that production operatives / subcontrators have the correct quantities of materials/components and information delivered to them on time at the correct location to achieve on time deliveries.
• Support to co-ordinate all aspects of production planning, material control, shop floor scheduling and labour capacity planning
• Prepare and issue shop floor documentation to meet the Production Schedule
• Works to resolve, labor and material shortages, backlogs and other potential schedule interruptions.
• Liaise with customers to communicate delays and to resolve any delivery queries
• Consolidation of various delivery commitments from Cell Leaders and Purchasing into one agreed order schedule, whilst achieving customer satisfaction.
• Processing Engineering Change Orders, Custom BoM (Bill of Materials) releases and new product Introductions into existing production
• Provide accurate, timely and concise feedback to keep account reps / operations team members/supply chain in the loop
• Take a lead role in the ongoing improvement in manufacturing data accuracy.
• 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.)
• Producing Key Performance Indicator and management reports