Production Planner

About the role 

Production Planners plan, forecast, and organize activities in the Computacenter United States Inc.’s Integration Center (IC). These activities include master scheduling of production, material fulfilment, appropriate project close-out activities, and support the functions of the Production Supervisors and Operations Managers. Production Planners provide a critical link to the Engineering, Program Management, Sales, Purchasing and Manufacturing teams to adequately support all project planning activities. 

What you’ll be doing 

• Perform planning and scheduling functions involved with creating/managing work orders, coordinating products and materials movement through the manufacturing processes to completion and on-time shipment. 
• Providing oversight while maintaining adequate inventories to support operations while minimizing inventory investments. 
• Coordinate the efficient expediting of materials and work in process with purchasing, production and engineering. 
• Proactively identify areas of potential supply concerns and communicates analysis/recommendations to all parties impacted. 
• Process and track team timecards, expense reports, purchase orders, issue documentation, project plan updates, and project documentation. 
• Support invoicing and project closure functions. 

What you have  

• Minimum of 1-3 years of experience of sales or services administration. 
• Experience in inventory management. 
• Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical skills. 
• Attention to detail and follow-up. 
• Microsoft Suite experience. 
• Legally eligible to work in the United States 

Bonus points 

• Bachelor’s degree 
• IT and/or manufacturing industry experience 
• Salesforce and/or SAP experience 

What you can expect

There’s so much more to enjoy about being at Computacenter than just having a rewarding career. In addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities, we provide an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to your good health, future financial security, and peace of mind.

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our world-renowned customers to source, transform, and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business. We’re a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employ over 20,000 people worldwide. In the US, we support some of the country’s best-known businesses with regional hubs in San Francisco and Irvine, CA; Norcross, GA; Plano, TX; and New York City; and Integration Centers in Silicon Valley and Atlanta. www.computacenter.com/us