What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Planner & Scheduler Intern - Summer 2025 position at Flex?
Job Posting Start Date 01-07-2025 Job Posting End Date 01-13-2025Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion and cultivate a workplace culture of belonging that views uniqueness as a competitive edge and builds a community that enables our people to push the limits of innovation to make great products that create value and improve people's lives.A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary. Job Summary
To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, this Summer, we're looking to add a Production Planner & Scheduler Intern located in our Austin, TX site.
Reporting to the Production Planning Manager, the student will assist with daily engineering tasks while learning, collaborating and working alongside Engineers and cross-functional teams.
What a typical day looks like :
- Serves as advanced interface with the PM for escalations of order commitments, order expedites, and problem resolution
- Leads order processing activities for designated customer units and advises associates regarding daily priorities of customer requests.
- Monitors and proactively addresses issues that impact performance to committed ship date (CSD), lead-time, response time, and inventory goals.
- Coordinates with Master Scheduler to manage product life cycle and related materials availability issues.
- Drives process improvements inside and outside the area of Order Management.
- Schedules, coordinates, and approves product releases to the production planning systems based on material and capacity availability.
- Provides input to management, reschedules, and / or interfaces with program management, master scheduling and production control to reschedule production in the event of design changes, labor and material shortages, backlogs, and other potential schedule interruptions.
- Represents Order Management on various Customer Focus Teams.
- May also support inventory control, supply chain management, material planning, and scheduling.
Student qualities we're seeking for this internship assignment :
Internship Program Requirements :
What you'll receive for the great work you provide :
Job Category InternRelocation : Not eligible
Is Sponsorship Available?
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