Your Job
As a Planner/Senior Planner at Molex Singapore, your role will revolve around coordinating and expediting the flow of work and materials within or between departments based on daily and weekly production schedules. You will liaise with department supervisors to ensure work progress and timely completion of tasks, support subcontract services, manage material master updates, and address production challenges. Additionally, you will independently handle customer interactions, contributing to efficient production and operational excellence.
Our Team
This role is part of the DSS Division at Molex Singapore, where you will work closely with various internal departments, including operations, engineering, quality assurance, and supply chain teams. You will also interact with external stakeholders like component and assembly subcontractors and external warehouses, ensuring seamless coordination across the production process. The team thrives on collaboration and is dedicated to delivering high-quality results and customer satisfaction.
What You Will Do
- Prepare and manage production schedules, prioritizing job orders to ensure plan versus actual achievements (SAP/Fusion APS).
- Review production backlogs and work closely with in-house production, assembly planners, and buyers to resolve overdue orders or implement alternative solutions to meet customer requirements.
- Collaborate with operations teams, including engineering and quality assurance, to eliminate quality obstacles and enable smooth production.
- Coordinate with MIE and production teams to schedule sample runs and address process improvements.
- Oversee raw material and subcon component shortages, liaising with assembly planners to facilitate production recovery and alternative planning.
- Manage complex product lines by providing end-to-end services from component planning to finished goods.
- Independently engage with customers to address requirements and ensure satisfaction.
- Evaluate capacity requirements versus availability for assigned product lines, identifying deviations and recommending adjustments or capacity expansions as needed.
- Support GS&OP monthly cadence, ensuring accurate work center maintenance and optimizing available capacities (OEE/POEE performance tracking).
- Align delivery schedules with lead time requirements to achieve delivery goals.
- Control inventory levels by minimizing surplus, slow-moving, and excess inventories, while preventing under-stocking to maintain delivery commitments.
- Update and maintain material master views for new and existing parts and coordinate clean-up of obsolete (OBS) parts.
- Analyze capacity alerts, inventory levels, and exception reports, categorizing slow-moving stock and providing scrap or disposal recommendations as necessary.
- Support lean projects, new system development, and plant product pruning initiatives for better machine utilization.
- Liaise with QA and shipping departments to execute shipments, ensuring billing and customer shipment targets are met.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Diploma or higher in a relevant field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a production planning or related role.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel, with a solid understanding of ERP systems.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to assess capacity planning and inventory management challenges effectively.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Hands-on experience with SAP systems.
- Prior work experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex product lines and implement lean processes effectively.
- Proven track record in supporting new system developments and coordinating cross-functional teams.
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Who We Are
As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
