Nvidia Senior Factory Planner 

United States, California 

906612877

What you will be doing:

• Manage, track, and publish daily builds status.

• Drive CM factory to resolve forecast vs. CM commit gaps, supply vs. demand shortages, ad-hoc changes, bone pile recovery, and customer critical issues.

• Serve as an escalation path between CM and Nvidia.

• Identify factory constraints. Communicate and work closely with Production or Supply planning to provide the best trade-off decisions.

• Drive Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and factory metrics including On-Time Delivery, Capacity Utilization, Cycle Time, Idle Time, and Inventory accuracy. Identify production gaps, root causes, and implement continuous improvement plans, via weekly and quarterly reviews.

• Inventory control – conduct weekly cycle count reconciliation for consigned and finished goods, monitor turnkey components and critical components shortages, and work with cross functional teams to close the inventory gaps.

• Monitor and resolve B2B issues with Contract Manufacturer in a timely manner to ensure no impact to daily shipping performance.

• Support the tracking and publishing of daily RMA status. Work with Contract Manufacturing to complete RMA schedules in the standard negotiated lead time.

• Handle CM accounts and access authorization for CM users. Setting up CM, SLOC (inventory sub-locations) as needed.

• Request Ad-hoc Over Time requirement, quote, track, and validate blanket PO coverage and usage.

What we need to see:

• 12-15 years of working experience in the Contract Manufacturing or Production planning field.

• Bachelor of Science in Operations, Manufacturing Management, Logistics or related fields, or equivalent experience.

• Proficiency in business software applications such as Microsoft Office, Excel, SAP, MRP – Excellent analytical skills and hands-on with excel to analyze data - formulas, pivot tables. Ability to write excels macros is a plus.

• Language: Excellent English skills on reading, writing, speaking, and listening (Spanish Speaking a plus).

• Personality: highly organized, detailed orientated, a self-starter with a strong sense of ownership.

• APICS, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing certification is helpful.

• 25% to 40% travel required.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Demonstrates a commitment to quality and actively engages in continuous improvement efforts, and passionate about what you do.

• Takes initiative to go beyond clearly defined responsibilities, recognizes obstacles and create solutions. Demonstrates ability to think and act effectively, to make tough and well-thought decisions in a timely manner.

• Strong analytical skills, logical problem solver, results driven with the ability to collect, organize, and disseminate significant amounts of information accurately and at a detailed level.