Senior Factory Planner

Full-time role based in Houston and/or Dallas, TX, supporting Contract Manufacturing (CM) execution.

About the role

Ensure material, capacity, logistics, and manufacturing roadblocks are cleared to deliver products on time. Strong understanding of electronic manufacturing and supply chain management processes required; ability to work independently and drive tasks to completion in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage, track, and publish daily builds status.
• Drive CM factory to resolve forecast vs. CM commit gaps, supply vs. demand shortages, ad-hoc changes, bone pile recovery, and customer critical issues.
• Serve as an escalation path between CM and NVIDIA.
• Identify factory constraints and work with Production or Supply planning to provide trade-off decisions.
• Drive Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and factory metrics including On-Time Delivery, Capacity Utilization, Cycle Time, Idle Time, and Inventory accuracy.
• Identify production gaps, root causes, and implement continuous improvement plans via weekly and quarterly reviews.
• Conduct weekly cycle count reconciliation for consigned and finished goods, monitor turnkey and critical components shortages, and close inventory gaps with cross-functional teams.
• Monitor and resolve B2B issues with Contract Manufacturer to ensure no impact to daily shipping performance.
• Support tracking and publishing of daily RMA status and complete RMA schedules within standard negotiated lead time.
• Handle CM accounts and access authorization for CM users.
• Set up CM and SLOC (inventory sub-locations) as needed.
• Request ad-hoc overtime requirements, quote, track, and validate blanket PO coverage and usage.

Requirements

• 12-15 years of working experience in Contract Manufacturing or Production planning.
• Bachelor of Science in Operations, Manufacturing Management, Logistics, or related fields, or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency in business software applications such as Microsoft Office, Excel, SAP, MRP.
• Excellent analytical skills and hands-on experience with Excel (formulas, pivot tables); ability to write Excel macros is a plus.
• Excellent English skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, self-starter with a strong sense of ownership.
• APICS, Six Sigma, or Lean Manufacturing certification is helpful.
• 25% to 40% travel required.

Skills

• Demonstrates commitment to quality and continuous improvement.
• Takes initiative beyond defined responsibilities, recognizes obstacles, and creates solutions.
• Ability to think and act effectively, making tough, well-thought decisions in a timely manner.
• Strong analytical skills, logical problem solver, results-driven with ability to collect, organize, and disseminate significant amounts of information accurately.

Benefits

Competitive salaries and a generous benefits package.

Pay

Base salary range: 160,000 USD – 247,250 USD. Eligible for equity and benefits.