Production Planner

Requisition Number: 72840

 

The company built on breakthroughs. ​  
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Corning is one of the world’s leading innovators in glass, ceramic, and materials science. From the depths of the ocean to the farthest reaches of space, our technologies push the boundaries of what’s possible.  ​  

 

How do we do this? With our people. They break through limitations and expectations – not once in a career, but every day. They help move our company, and the world, forward. ​  

 

​At Corning, there are endless possibilities for making an impact. You can help connect the unconnected, drive the future of automobiles, transform at-home entertainment, and ensure the delivery of lifesaving medicines. And so much more.​   

 

Come break through with us.  

 

Corning’s businesses are ever evolving to best serve our customers, industries, and consumers. Today, we accelerate and transform life sciences, mobile consumer electronics, optical communications, display, and automotive markets. We are changing the world with: 

• Trusted products that accelerate drug discovery, development, and delivery to save lives
• Damage-resistant cover glass to enhance the devices that keep us connected
• Optical fiber, wireless technologies, and connectivity solutions to carry information and ideas at the speed of light
• Precision glass for advanced displays to deliver richer experiences 
•  Auto glass and ceramics to drive cleaner, safer, and smarter transportation 

Scope of Position:

Involves the overall planning, implementation, and optimization of all activities and support required for the delivery of products and services to our Business Partners, from materials/service acquisition through distribution and delivery. Establishes manufacturing supply plans, capacity plans and inventory plans to support plant objectives. Overall monitoring of material movement through the production cycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Works from engineering plans and production specifications to establish supply plans and capacity requirements
• Utilizes capacity models to create tactical operating plans that drive manufacturing and supply chain execution
• Develops supply plans in accordance with established inventory targets, safety stock levels, and order policies, using industry standard supply chain methods; monitors performance to targets
• Provides shipment commitments to customer orders and schedule change requests
• Oversees progress of supply plan to committed orders, facilitates development and implementation of solutions and/or recovery plans to potential/actual schedule delays
• Responsible for inventory management of manufactured products, to include identification of slow moving and obsolete product and support disposition actions
• Prepares timely cost proposals in response to customer requests; participates in New Product Introduction process; performs cost post-mortem analyses on new products as needed
• Provides input into weekly and monthly Financial reporting, ie revenue forecast for intercompany products (Wafers), Receipt to Stock (RTS) forecast on key product lines, status of committed orders as it relates to on-time shipment for revenue recognition
• Assists with development of manufacturing plans for annual budgets
• Provides inputs to annual standard cost setting process
• Measures and reports key performance metrics
• Committed to continual improvement of planning processes and planning system functionality to maximize operational efficiency
• Solves routine problems of limited scope and complexity following established policies and procedures
• Contributes to the completion of organizational projects and goals. Errors in judgment or failure to achieve results would normally require a moderate expenditure of resources to rectify. Represents organization on specific projects.
• Works under very general supervision. Work is reviewed for soundness of judgment and overall adequacy and accuracy.
• Primary contacts are with immediate supervisor and other team members, operations, engineers, and customer service.
• Responsible for performance metrics: Delivery, Inventory, Quote Response Metrics