Senior Planner

Job description

Primary Duties & Responsibilities: - Responsible for Production Planning and Order Fulfilment for designated product portfolio. - Work closely with Fab Operations production floor staff to ensure that all resources are properly allocated and assigned to support production, engineering and New Product Introduction (NPI) jobs. - Lead cross-functional initiatives to meet department goals and objectives. - Process appropriate documentation and coordinate material movement from stock locations to offshore assembly operations, or in response to specific requests from the R&D team. - Conduct routine analysis and maintenance of ERP and planning system data attributes. - Closely coordinate with Coherent global network of production facilities on the transfer of new products and updates to established products. - Assist Commodity Management in the identification of cost reduction and supplier development opportunities. - Regularly evaluate and optimize program related inventory with an emphasis on avoiding or minimizing excess and obsolete material levels. - Participate in and contribute to continuous process improvement initiatives at the department and division level as well as cross funct...