Senior Production Planner

Coherent Vietnam, a branch of Coherent Corp., a global leader in engineered materials and optoelectronic components, is a vertically integrated manufacturing company that develops products for applications in the industrial, optical communications, aerospace and defence, life sciences, semiconductor capital equipment and consumer markets.

Coherent Vietnam is planning significant investments in the southern province of Dong Nai. We aim to develop high-tech projects in advanced optics and semiconductor (SiC) manufacturing. This initiative, located in Nhon Trach 1 Industrial Park, involves an investment capital of hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars and is set to begin operations by the end of 2024.

Responsible for the management, development and direction of the production planning to meet customer’s demand and inventory control functions.

1) Planning & Production Control

- Leadership is provided to manage the production control and planning process in the most cost-efficient manner.

- Processes, procedures, and policies are created and implemented that will enable to meet scheduled commitments to our customers.

- Glovia maintenance activities are verified as being performed per schedule.

- Potential problems are identified and communicated that could affect process or product quality.

- Interface with Engineers, Customer Service, Purchasing and Manufacturing team to ensure rapid response to customer requirement

- Conduct efficiently weekly/ monthly production planning meeting

- Review trend on time deliveries, misses and analysis reasons to work with related department for improvement/CAR

2) Inventory Management

- Processes, procedures are created and implemented that will enable MCUBE to manage inventory, increase inventory turns, and reduce excess builds and scrap to ensure lowest possible cost

- Review weekly and monthly reports for: shipping requirements, pull-ins/push-outs requirements and component part

- Lead team to make initiatives and have action to achieve inventory target

3) ERP, software application & improvement

- Study and make use of eRP to improve job quality

- Study to generate various planning reports to support planning job, make work more efficiently with less manual work

- Lead and support improvement projects

- 5+ years’ experience in production planning or related roles, preferably in manufacturing environment.

- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field.

- Specialization in Supply Chain, Logistics is strongly preferred

- Experience with ERP software systems, Glovia/ Oracle preferred.

- Innovative, capable of training, developing employees to use ERP in planning and inventory control.

- Demonstrated ability to facilitate projects and achieve results through others.

- Total Quality management experience.

- Proficient computer skills, experience with Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Email, internet access.

- Strong knowledge of ERP

- Ability to excel in a cross-organizational team environment

- Ability to deal effectively with differences of opinion, to influence, to draw ideas from others, and to negotiate and mediate

- Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills

- Good time management skills and ability to work with little supervision

- Ability to anticipate and handle multiple priorities and moderately complex issues involving external and internal priorities

- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.

- Proficient in English Skills.