Planner II role at Applied Materials involves planning activities, inventory control, process control, and shop floor control. The position requires standing for extended periods, working in a clean room, and using Personal Protective Equipment. The salary range is $64,000.00 - $88,000.00, and the company offers a comprehensive benefits package.
Requirements
- Employees may specialize in planning activities involving production control, inventory control, process control, or shop floor control / Material Resources Planning (MRP) integrity
- Maintains Oracle work order release schedule that provides material on-time to manufacturing and engineering
- Increases component availability at time of release by performing pre-shortage analysis
- Reviews MRP execution and ensures accuracy of information; reconciles supply and demand; validates master scheduling and/or PDS requirements
- Reviews and ensures proper disposition of Engineering Change Orders (ECO's)
- Performs regular system maintenance and audits to ensure system accuracy
- Prepares status reports of all ECOs and ECRs in process
- Participates in floor audits with Finance and resolves WIP issues
- Attends production meetings and provides status on material shortage commit dates
- Changes'make' level lead times in accordance with reality on the manufacturing floor
- Works with engineers to manage materials for special engineering projects
- May work with work centers on shop floor control activities
- Inventory Control – Analyzes usage data and stock levels to order parts to satisfy service levels; maintains inventory levels per plan and expedites shortages; may forecast spare parts needs
- Examines material variances, resolves problems where possible, and/or communicates more difficult problems to management
- Assists in setting up new inventory systems or modifying existing systems, when necessary; assigns appropriate expediting duties to expediters
- May manage obsolete inventories
- Process Control – Participates in identifying root cause and corrective action from PCI reporting and metrics, drives cycle counting
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Bonus and stock award program (applicable)
