Engineering assistant Jobs in Lowell, MA

Engineering Planner

The Engineering Planner plays a crucial role in coordinating and managing engineering projects, ensuring material availability, and supporting build plans. This position requires strong collaboration with project teams, PMs, engineering, and supply chain stakeholders while maintaining a high level of system knowledge and adaptability to uncertainty in builds, BOMs, and routing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with project teams, PMs, and engineering teams to understand program requirements.
• Manage End-of-Life (EOL) and dormant items, ensuring appropriate inventory disposition.
• Maintain high-level system knowledge (AX, Agile, etc.) and oversee BOM structure support (Coverage Group, MRP settings, WHs).
• Set up and manage intercompany processes, facilitating collaboration across factories/groups.
• Navigate uncertainty in builds, BOM structures, and routing, ensuring adaptability.
• Oversee engineering BOMs, item creation, and adoption in AX, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Execute intracompany warehouse transfers for effective material flow.
• Conduct inventory status reviews and disposition in coordination with quality and engineering teams.
• Host Engineering Collaborative Meetings, fostering alignment across departments.
• Ensure material availability to support engineering and prototype builds.
• Act as a communication bridge between the production floor and production planning teams.
• Maintain high-level business/site knowledge to align engineering operations with company objectives.
• Exhibit strong leadership, including the ability to push back, negotiate, and collaborate effectively.
• Apply critical thinking and scepticism to engineering planning and decision-making processes.
• Possess or develop technical and engineering knowledge, enabling informed decision-making.
• Foster strong relationships with the engineering buyer function to ensure material availability.
• Define and manage MBOMs with engineering, purchasing, and manufacturing teams.
• Oversee build plan management, interfacing with production planning and setting priorities.
• Support forecasting, including risk buys and predictive inventory management.
• Coordinate sales order confirmation, ensuring alignment with engineering and production needs.
• Manage inventory disposition and lifecycle tracking.
• Lead engineering change control, ensuring timely updates and approvals.
• Oversee AX system settings updates, including safety stock adjustments, transaction agreements, and revision updates.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• 9 years direct planning experience or 5 years of experience with a relevant bachelor's degree or 3 years of experience with a master's degree.
• Strong negotiation and collaboration skills, with the ability to challenge and refine decisions.
• High-level system knowledge, particularly AX (Dynamics AX), Agile, and business structures.
• Ability to cope with uncertainty, making strategic adjustments where necessary.
• Technical and engineering knowledge, or the ability to develop expertise in relevant areas.
• Effective communication skills, ensuring coordination across production, engineering, and supply chain teams.
• Experience in engineering change management, inventory disposition, and forecasting processes.

U.S. Export Controls Requirements: This job requires access to technology, materials, software or hardware that is controlled by the export laws of the United States. Candidates are required to provide proof of either US citizenship, Permanent US residency or classification as a protected individual as defined in 8 USC 1324b (a) (3). This position is not eligible for Microchip immigration sponsorship.

Travel Time:

0% - 25%

Physical Attributes:

Hearing, Seeing, Talking, Works Alone, Works Around Others

Physical Requirements:

80% sitting, 10% standing, 10% walking

Pay Range:

The annual base salary range for this position, which could be performed in the US, is $46,000 - $128,000.* Range is dependent on numerous factors including job location, skills and experience.

Microchip Technology Inc is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.