Planner

Planner Position at Celestica

Celestica is looking for a detail-oriented Planner to join our Supply Chain team. The ideal candidate will have 4 to 6 years of experience in production planning, scheduling support, or material control within a manufacturing environment. This role will primarily focus on executing, maintaining, and supporting the production schedules for complex system builds, with exposure to projects involving liquid cooling and data center rack integration.

Key Responsibilities

• Scheduling : Oversees the master planning process for some / all customers at the site. Assist the Senior Production Planner in developing and maintaining the daily and weekly production schedules (MPS), ensuring alignment with material availability and established line capacity.
• Material Readiness Execution : Coordinate closely with warehouse and procurement teams to ensure all necessary components are released to the production floor on time.
• Data Maintenance : Maintain the accuracy and integrity of critical planning data within the ERP / MRP system, including lead times, minimum order quantities (MOQs), and Bill of Materials (BOM) revisions.
• Inventory Control Support : Monitor work-in-process (WIP) and component inventory levels on the production floor. Help identify and report potential excess, surplus, or obsolete inventory.
• Line Coordination : Act as the direct daily link between the planning office and the production floor supervisors, communicating schedule changes, prioritizing hot jobs, and addressing immediate material discrepancies, especially for specialized liquid cooling and rack assembly stations.
• NPI Support : Assist in planning the material and capacity ramp for New Product Introduction (NPI) builds, ensuring planning parameters are accurately set up in the system prior to pilot runs.
• Reporting : Generate standard daily and weekly reports on schedule adherence, material shortages, and line capacity utilization for management review.

Required Experience & Qualifications

Physical Demands & Work Environment

Duties are performed in a professional office setting with frequent time spent on the manufacturing floor for material verification and communication with production teams. Primarily a desk-based role with frequent walking to different areas of the plant. Requires strong focus for data entry and system analysis. Must be able to manage competing priorities and adapt quickly to unexpected changes in the production schedule.

Typical Education

Bachelor's degree in related field, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience. Educational requirements may vary by geography.

Company Overview

Celestica enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers. Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law). At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process. Please indicate your needs and we will work with you to meet them.