• Production Planner

    PDS Tech Commercial (Richardson, TX)


    Put Your Production Planning Skills in Motion!

     

    If you’re an organized problem-solver who loves keeping operations running smoothly, this is the role for you! We’re looking for multiple **Production Planners** to support join our client’s team (Direct Hire opportunities) in Richardson, TX and help them meet and exceed their growth goals in 2026 by keeping production on track!

     

    You’ll be the go-to expert for executing, maintaining, and supporting the production schedules for complex system builds, with exposure to multiple projects such as liquid cooling and data center rack integration. Sound like your kind of challenge? Read on!

     

    + **Pay Rate:** $74-79K (+10% bonus)

    + **Shift:** 1st shift

    Why You’ll Love This Role

    + **Keep It Running:** Play a critical part in keeping our production and teams at peak performance.

    + **Hands-On Coordination:** Production scheduling, ensuring part availability, and inventory control support are just a few ways you will make an impact.

    + **Room to Grow:** Build on your planning and organizational skills in a fast-paced environment.

    + **Collaborate and Connect:** Work closely with technicians, supervisors, and vendors to keep everything moving.

    What You’ll Be Doing

    + **Scheduling:** 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. Analyzes internal impact (e.g., line scheduling, procurement, logistics, shipping, etc.) of customer scheduling changes, communicating risks and necessary adjustments to functional teams.

    + **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.

    What We’re Looking For

    + **4 to 6** years of experience in a planning, material control, or scheduling support role within a manufacturing environment.

    + Foundational knowledge of the Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) or a similar high-tech assembly sector. Exposure to complex system integration is a plus.

    + Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Operations Management, or a related field.

    + Practical experience working with ERP/MRP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle). Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, for data analysis and tracking.

    + Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and a proactive, problem-solving attitude.

    + Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.

     

    Take the Next Step in Your Production Planning Career!

     

    If you’re ready to be part of a team that values efficiency, accuracy, and collaboration — we want to hear from you. Apply today and help keep our client’s operations running like clockwork!

     

    **Pay Details:** $74,000.00 to $79,000.00 per year

     

    Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

     

    Military connected talent encouraged to apply

     

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    The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

    + The California Fair Chance Act

    + Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

    + Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

    + San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

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