Production Planner

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Molex is seeking a Production Planner for our South Grafton, MA facility. This role is responsible for production scheduling, material requirements planning, and inventory coordination to support customer demand while optimizing manufacturing capacity, delivery performance, and inventory levels.

The ideal candidate has strong SAP experience, understands manufacturing planning processes, and can translate customer demand and material availability into achievable production schedules.

Our Team

What You Will Do

• Develop and maintain production schedules to support customer demand while maximizing manufacturing efficiency.
• Plan raw material and component requirements and communicate shortages and replenishment needs to the Purchasing team.
• Utilize SAP (MRP/ERP) to review demand, material availability, inventory, production orders, and production schedules.
• Review MRP recommendations, identify material constraints, and create or adjust production orders and schedules.
• Coordinate with Purchasing to confirm material availability and escalate shortages that may affect production schedules.
• Analyze inventory levels and implement strategies to minimize shortages and excess inventory.
• Work closely with Production, Customer Service, Engineering, and Sales to balance customer demand with manufacturing capacity.
• Monitor production order progress, identify delays, and coordinate recovery plans with Operations and Customer Service.
• Monitor schedule adherence, capacity utilization, and on-time delivery; identify opportunities to improve planning effectiveness.
• Maintain accurate planning parameters, including production lead times, lot sizes, and scheduling assumptions in SAP.
• Communicate production priorities, schedule changes, and potential delivery risks to cross-functional teams.
• Publish and monitor production planning KPIs, including schedule adherence, backlog, and on-time delivery.
• Continuously improve production planning and scheduling processes using Lean, Six Sigma, and other continuous improvement methodologies.
• Support Molex Total Quality Management (TQM), ISO, Environmental, and EH&S systems by following established policies and procedures.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Minimum five (5) years of experience in production planning, scheduling, materials planning, or supply chain within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience with production scheduling, capacity planning, and material requirements planning.
• Experience managing production orders, inventory planning, and material availability.
• Experience analyzing data and making decisions using SAP reports and Excel.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Operations Management, Finance, or a related field.
• APICS/ASCM CPIM or CSCP certification.
• Experience with finite capacity planning, production scheduling, and schedule recovery.
• Understanding of manufacturing lead times, inventory controls, and production planning KPIs.
• Experience in a high-mix, low-volume manufacturing environment.

For this role, we anticipate paying $75,000 - $90,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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Hiring Philosophy

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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.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

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.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).

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