What are the responsibilities and job description for the NPI Planner, Senior position at Macom Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.?
Company Overview
MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products for Data Center, Telecommunication and Industrial and Defense applications. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM has design centers and sales offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. MACOM is certified to the ISO9001 international quality standard and ISO14001 environmental management standard.
MACOM has more than 65 years of application expertise with multiple design centers, Si, GaAs and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Click here to view our facilities. In addition, MACOM offers foundry services that represents a key core competency within our business.
MACOM sells and distributes products globally via a sales channel comprised of a direct field sales force, authorized sales representatives and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trained across all of our products to give our customers insights into our entire portfolio.
Job Summary
This role is responsible for ensuring continuous supply of pre-production & engineering materials to support new product development and customer demands.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Responsible for initial procurement of materials and assembly of engineering samples and raw stock builds.
- Manages inventory of raw materials, finished goods, prototype samples, allocation and shipment of customer samples and conversion of raw stock builds to production.
- Ensures pricing is consistent with the quoted price and continuously drives creative solutions to reduce assembly cost, i.e. minimize the number of splits per build and ensure purchase transactions are carried out in a timely manner.
- Monitors engineering builds, WIP and backlog and performs analysis to proactively identify potential material shortages and carry-out solutions.
- Collaborate with the stakeholders and participate in projects with team meetings to ensure effective communication of complex situations both internally and externally.
- Works with engineering teams to define Bill of Material product structure and manage integrity of BOM and ensures work instructions are clear and concise.
- Working globally with contract manufacturers and suppliers to facilitate issuance of build instructions and takes appropriate actions and manage day-to-day build schedules.
- Works with the Product Line Managers (PLM) on allocation of engineering samples.
- Accountable for on-time delivery to material to internal and external customers.
- Represents NPI Planning in team meetings
- Must work independently and communicate with all levels of management
- Other duties as assigned.
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