Manufacturing Planner

About the Role

Molex Optical Connectivity Group is seeking a Manufacturing Planner to improve production efficiency, ensure material availability, and support customer satisfaction through effective planning and coordination. This role plays a critical part in balancing demand, inventory, and manufacturing capacity while partnering with cross-functional teams to achieve operational excellence.

Our Team

You will join a collaborative operations team focused on delivering innovative optical connectivity solutions through operational excellence, continuous improvement, and principled entrepreneurship.

What You Will Do

• Develop and maintain production schedules to support customer demand and business objectives.
• Analyze forecasts, inventory levels, capacity constraints, and material availability to create effective production plans.
• Partner with production, procurement, engineering, logistics, quality, and product management teams to align priorities and resolve planning challenges.
• Utilize digital dashboards and visual management tools to monitor job status, identify delays, communicate priorities, and escalate issues as appropriate to maintain production flow and on-time delivery.
• Monitor schedule adherence and proactively identify risks that may impact delivery commitments.
• Utilize ERP and planning systems to manage inventory, improve material flow, and optimize manufacturing performance.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to planning processes, inventory management, and operational efficiency.
• Analyze planning metrics and communicate recommendations to support informed business decisions.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience in manufacturing planning, production planning, supply chain, operations, or a related field.
• High School Diploma or GED.
• Experience using ERP, MRP, or other manufacturing planning systems.
• Experience analyzing data and using Microsoft Excel to support business decisions.
• Experience coordinating work across multiple stakeholders in a manufacturing environment.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, Operations Management, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Experience within a discrete manufacturing environment.
• Experience using SAP or similar ERP platforms.
• Knowledge of inventory control, demand planning, and capacity planning concepts.
• Experience applying Lean Manufacturing or continuous improvement methodologies.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Pay

For this role, we anticipate paying $75,000 - $105,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

Benefits

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.

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.