Production Planner

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Role: Production Planning Associate

Location: Phoenix, AZ

Job Description :

Quest Global is an organization at the forefront of innovation and one of the world’s fastest growing engineering services firms with deep domain knowledge and recognized expertise in the top OEMs across seven industries. We are a twenty-five-year-old company on a journey to becoming a centenary one, driven by aspiration, hunger and humility.

We are looking for humble geniuses, who believe that engineering has the potential to make the impossible, possible; innovators, who are not only inspired by technology and innovation, but also perpetually driven to design, develop, and test as a trusted partner for Fortune 500 customers.

As a team of remarkably diverse engineers, we recognize that what we are really engineering is a brighter future for us all. If you want to contribute to meaningful work and be part of an organization that truly believes when you win, we all win, and when you fail, we all learn, then we’re eager to hear from you.

The achievers and courageous challenge-crushers we seek, have the following characteristics and skills:

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Work as part of a mixed capability and mixed geography team to support demand/supply correlation and root cause analysis activities
• Ensure success of the project by interfacing with various stakeholders (including procurement, supplier reps, and other relevant departments) to gather required data
• Create and update line-of-balance reports which involves collecting, measuring and presenting facts to highlight cycle times, costs and milestones
• Gather necessary data, create and analyze metrics, maintain appropriate databases, and send required reports to the customer and the supply base
• Update relevant systems if there are changes in delivery dates or requirements
• Review work completed by offsite team members to ensure quality of the analyses, reports, etc
• Seek advice from subject matter experts when required
• Report project status during regular meetings with the customer.
• Typical reports would include updates on project status, assumptions, roadblocks, information needed, and overall program health
• Initiate root cause analyses of demand/supply issues and issue action items to correct
• Track completion of action items, roadblocks, and escalations
• Develop work instructions to ensure repeatability

Required Skills (Technical Competency):

• AS or AA in Business, Accounting, or related field or equivalent experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal and networking skills
• Experience or familiarity with the manufacturing of hardware required
• Proficiency manipulating data within MS Excel to create graphs, charts, and tables, including pivot tables, as well as general functions like VLOOKUP, required
• Ability to create business correspondences using email and MS PowerPoint required
• Experience with SAP required
• Prior experience with production planning, demand/supply planning, or other relevant processes highly valued

Desired Skills:

• BS or BA in Business, Accounting, or related field or equivalent experience
• Experience working with remote teams in a collaborative team environment
• Background in manufacturing production planning a plus
• Experience in the aerospace industry a plus
• Ability to express technical information in a clear and simple way
• Work as a team member in a technical project environment.
• Must be self-motivated and able to think 'outside the box'

Physical Requirements & Work Environment:

• Mix of Office and Shop Floor Environments.
• Substantial amounts of telephone and computer work.
• Heavily Regulated Industries with strict adherence to procedures.
• Flexibility to meet business deadlines by staying late or arriving early.
• Typical 8 hour days plus lunch / 40 hour weeks / core (required) hours are 9AM to 4PM
• Ability to use personal transportation to visit customer locations.
• Due to the nature of the work, all candidates must be a US Citizen.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

If you are interested, please use the below link to apply the job.

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Company DescriptionWe are Quest Global. We’re in the business of engineering, but what we’re really building is a brighter future. It’s not just what we do, but why we do it that makes us different. We believe engineering has the unique opportunity to solve the problems of today that stand in the way of tomorrow. For 26 years, we have strived to be the most trusted partner for the world’s hardest engineering problems. As a global organization headquartered in Singapore, we live and work in 17 countries, with 56 global delivery centers, driven by 18,000+ extraordinary employees who make the impossible possible every day.

Quest Global brings deep industry knowledge and digital expertise to deliver E2E global product engineering services. We bring together technologies and industries alongside the contributions of diverse individuals and their areas of expertise to solve problems better, faster. This multi-dimensional approach enables us to solve the most important and large-scale challenges across the Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Energy, Hi-Tech, Healthcare, Medical Devices, Rail and Semiconductor industries.Company DescriptionWe are Quest Global. We’re in the business of engineering, but what we’re really building is a brighter future. It’s not just what we do, but why we do it that makes us different. We believe engineering has the unique opportunity to solve the problems of today that stand in the way of tomorrow. For 26 years, we have strived to be the most trusted partner for the world’s hardest engineering problems. As a global organization headquartered in Singapore, we live and work in 17 countries, with 56 global delivery centers, driven by 18,000+ extraordinary employees who make the impossible possible every day. \r\n\r\nQuest Global brings deep industry knowledge and digital expertise to deliver E2E global product engineering services. We bring together technologies and industries alongside the contributions of diverse individuals and their areas of expertise to solve problems better, faster. This multi-dimensional approach enables us to solve the most important and large-scale challenges across the Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Energy, Hi-Tech, Healthcare, Medical Devices, Rail and Semiconductor industries.]]>