Planning and Control

Applied Materials•Gloucester, MA

About The Position

Applied Materials is hiring for a Planning and Control role in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Employees may specialize in production control, inventory control, process control, or shop floor control and Material Requirements Planning (MRP) integrity. The role supports manufacturing and engineering by maintaining accurate work-order and planning systems, coordinating material availability, monitoring inventory, and resolving shortages and material variances. It also involves collaborating with Finance, engineers, work centers, and production teams to support operational accuracy and delivery.

Responsibilities

Maintain the SAP work-order release schedule to provide materials on time to manufacturing and engineering.
Reschedule and/or complete no-charge, all discrete jobs as required.
Perform pre-shortage analysis to increase component availability at the time of release.
Perform work-order variance analysis.
Review MRP execution, ensure information accuracy, reconcile supply and demand, and validate master scheduling and/or PDS requirements.
Perform regular system maintenance and audits to ensure system accuracy.
Participate in floor audits with Finance and resolve work-in-process (WIP) issues.
Attend production meetings and provide status updates on material-shortage commit dates.
Change manufacturing lead times to reflect actual conditions on the manufacturing floor.
Work with engineers to manage materials for special engineering projects.
May work with shop-floor work centers on shop-floor control activities.
Analyze usage data and stock levels to order parts that satisfy service levels; maintain inventory levels per plan and expedite shortages; may forecast spare-parts needs.
Examine material variances, resolve problems where possible, and communicate more difficult problems to management.
Assist in establishing new inventory systems or modifying existing systems when necessary, and assign appropriate expediting duties to expediters.
May manage obsolete inventories.
Participate in identifying root causes and corrective actions from PCI reporting and metrics, and drive cycle counting.
Provide informal guidance to new team members.