Materials Planner 2

The Group You’ll Be A Part Of

The Global Operations Group brings information systems, facilities, supply chain, logistics, and high-volume manufacturing together to drive the engine of our global business operations. We help Lam deliver industry-leading solutions with speed and efficiency, while actively supporting the resilient and profitable growth of Lam's business.

The Impact You’ll Make

As a Materials Planner at Lam, you play a vital role in coordinating the movement of materials throughout the production cycle. You determine material requirements and specifications, produce needed materials, and maintain bills of materials (BOM). Your expertise in material management will help shape Lam's streamline and cost-effective production processes.

Job Responsibilities

• Analyze suppliers’ performance in terms of meeting our need dates and the parts commit
• Driving Supply chain more towards proactive approach than reactive approach in terms of inventory management and shortage mitigation
• Assess impact of component shortages on purchase orders for assemblies (Remote Factory Critical Shortages)
• Automating playbooks with priority-based planning 
• Become the data quality gate keeper that identifies discrepancies/gaps and works with the necessary sources to monitor and cleanse the data
• Manages supply / demand plan by identifying forecast opportunities, gaps, or risks then seeking approval to mitigate by either driving increases to supply or increasing the demand signal.  (e.g., load demand signals via floats, System Pull ins, and independent demand
• Will be driving Rapid response tool enhancements with GIS team.
• Support User Acceptance Testing
• Configure the system to support business requirements, design / configure different seeded resources like worksheets, Alerts, Metrics, scorecards, etc.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (Mechanical, Electrical, and production) or equivalent with Min 7 -10 years of working experience in Procurement, Planning (Through Rapid response tool mandatory), Supply chain and Operations exposure are preferred.
• Experience with Supply Chain procurement and capacity assessment processes – an understanding of medium and long-term planning, assessment and methodology is critical.
• Experience in Kinaxis Rapid Response
• Ability to Design and deliver reporting that will track performance improvement against current state and summarize recommendations based on results on a regular basis to key BP’s
• Executive messaging and ability to work cross functionally and drive decision making in a matrixed environment
• Semiconductor equipment knowledge and continuous learning to effectively consider how technical roadmaps of the business units (product lifecycle) and economic trends can affect our supply/demand streams
• Willing to work in shift: 1:30 PM – 10:30 PM (Willing to work in any shift)

Preferred Qualifications

• SAP knowledge
• Kinaxis Rapid Response Contributor Certification
• PMP certified is preferred

Our Commitment

We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.

Lam Research ("Lam" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.

Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories – On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. ‘On-site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. ‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.