Engineer - Planning

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. 

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Engineer- Planning located in Sunguvarchathiram.

What a typical day looks like:

• Responsible for providing expertise and support to the Customer Focus Team (CFT), ensuring the ability of the materials planning for a specific project or projects as required. Providing materials support to the weekly production planned orders and enables to achieve Kit on time drop to meet Customer Schedule

• Key assignments includes providing timely Materials status through use of available Shortage reports, Submission of Excess and Obsolete Inventory to the Customer, Work Order Management, inventory management, MRB and DR Management to achieve the operating goals.

• Senior Materials Planners for New Emerging NPI Accounts to provide faster service to the NPI Customer to effectively communicate with the customer protecting Business interest of Flex

• Working on customer forecast for activity like normalization, forecast comparison etc.

• Working on customer forecast & shipment using waterfall method.

• Responsible for analyzing availability of materials & capacity based on customer demand & coming up with aggressive but achievable loading schedule.

• Responsible for running weekly system reports to determine material shortages & work on their closure with buying team.

• Responsible for handling work order management based on build plan.

•  Responsible for identifying & taking various inventory management measures.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree or Engineering Graduates

• Experience: 5-8 yrs. Planning/ Supply Chain 

• Purchasing, Planning and Supply Chain knowledge/experience 

• Must be able to analyze supply chain for demand pull in or push out.

• Mandatory Knowledge of computer software applications, MS Excel, Word & PowerPoint (PF)

• Knowledge of planning tool like Kinaxis will be an added advantage.

• Proficiency: ERP/P2P systems BAAN / SAP/ Oracle

• Knowledge of Engineering BOMs, product structure, EOL, ECO Management

• Knowledge of complete planning cycle including MPS, MRP, Demand Planning, Materials planning, Production planning.

• Communication: Communication, both verbal and written, is an important part of this role. The job holder is required to exchange information, ideas and views on business related matters concerning the Planning function, throughout the Company at all levels

• Innovation: The jobholder is required to show a willingness to question traditional methodology and make recommendations on new ways of approaching problems and improving existing processes.

Here are a few examples of what you will get for the great work you provide

• Health Insurance

• PTO

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