Senior Planner

Senior Planner

About Advanced Energy
Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: AEIS), enables design breakthroughs and drives growth for leading semiconductor and industrial customers. Our precision power and control technologies, along with our applications know-how, inspire close partnerships and innovation in thin-film and industrial manufacturing. We are proud of our rich heritage, award-winning technologies, and we value the talents and contributions of all Advanced Energy's employees worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Plans, schedules, coordinates and/or monitors final approval of products through the complete production cycle.
• Coordinates production plans to ensure materials are provided according to schedules.
• Map factories capacities (mainline, sub-assemblies, equipment, direct labor, …)
• Understand supply constraints including material availabilities
• Produce medium to long term manufacturing plans considering CTB and factory capacities
• Drive the Customer commit process
• Handover manufacturing plans to the local teams for short term execution
• Drive demand review process (demand changes, Forecast accuracy)
• Support the preparation and execution of the S&OP process
• Support customer escalations
• Ensure system parameters are correctly configured
• coordinate product transfer activities between sites to ensure best practices are exercised in a standard and uniform way across all sites
• Provides input to management; schedules and/or interfaces with marketing, sales, production and engineering managers.
• Works to resolve (in case of design changes) labor and material shortages, backlogs and other potential schedule interruptions.
• 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.)
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Management, Finance, Materials Management, Computer Information Sciences, or Engineering, or equivalent education and/or experience.
• Minimum of five (5) years of production planning or material management experience in a dynamic manufacturing environment.
• Proven track record of success and growth in positions of increasing responsibility.
• Experience in a high mix/low volume, pull-based manufacturing environment.
• Previous experience with SAP/IBP
• Adhere to organizational requirements on quality management, health and safety, code of conduct, legal stipulations, environmental, 5S policies and general duty of care.
• Thorough understanding of SAP or Material Requirements Planning (MRP), planning functions, and shop floor processes and materials. R3/S4
• Good knowledge of IBP/Kinaxis or similar solution
• 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 written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent analytical skills Excel, Power Bi, Tableau and/or relational databases.

As part of our total rewards philosophy, we believe in offering and maintaining competitive compensation and benefits programs for our employees in order 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, we offer a strong benefits package in each of the countries in which we operate.

Advanced Energy is committed to diversity in its workforce including Equal Employment Opportunity for Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We take your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information to administer your application in accordance with the RA No also known as the Data Privacy Act of 2012.