Senior Engineer - Material Planning

The Senior Engineer Material Planning will be based in Chennai, Sriperumbudur plant.

Here is a glimpse of what you’ll do

• 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 include 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.
• Collate the data based on the input received from CFT, do first level of analysis and share the clean data back to the planner as per agreed timelines.
• Monitor Inventory levels vs. goals, Shortage reports with detailed comments – CTB; Excess Mitigation with Buyers. Prepare the analysis for excess mitigation with the site buyer.
• Schedule and coordinate status of materials within or with the external suppliers to expedite materials in conjunction with the MRP, providing support and expertise to the Buyers as required.
• Review and assist the planner in generating the master production schedules, running Kinaxis can do simulation. Work orders and prepare Clear to Build Report based on the availability of the materials.
• Ensure all materials procedures are adhered to by the Planner.

Here is some of what you’ll need (required)

• Preferably Engineer (BE/B.Tech) with 8+ years of similar experience.
• Must be able to analyze supply chain for demand pull in or push out.
• Knowledge of BOMs and product structure.
• Experience in Master Scheduling

Here are a few of our preferred experiences

• Knowledge of Materials Requirement Planning.
• Knowledge of Lean Supply Chain.
• Advanced Excel with Intermediate Power Point.