What are the responsibilities and job description for the Planner position at Edwards Vacuum / Edwards Semiconductor Solutions?
The Planner is responsible for:
* Quote, plan, schedule, invoice and coordinate jobs in a timely and accurate manner, ensuring a positive customer experience.
* Execute service contracts, including SAP entries, invoices, site visit scheduling, and materials planning to ensure adherence to our contractual agreements.
* Manage inventory for field jobs and van stock, including parts ordering, proactive delivery tracking, and stock accuracy.
* Proactively move jobs forward through the field service process by driving actions of service engineers, supply chain team, and customers.
Other main responsibilities include:
* Create, maintain, and track field service opportunities and quotes using C4C, SAP and VeasyQuoter.
* Create and maintain service jobs in SAP for chargeable, contract, warranty, and internal jobs.
* Use Innosoft planning software to schedule, track, and maintain service engineer activities.
* Order and expedite parts as needed to ensure on-time delivery. Communicate status and tracking details to stakeholders.
* Communicate with customers to schedule/confirm service dates and parts deliveries and to uncover customer-specific requirements for access.
* Proactively review WIP regularly, to detect potential delays and stalled jobs. Take action or assign tasks to drive jobs forward.
* Maintain WIP report and lead weekly WIP meeting.
* Monitor transactions by service engineers to ensure timely and accurate entries for labor, materials, travel expenses, EPAS codes, Risk Assessment, and Reports.
* Execute Contracts, including SAP entries, invoicing, site visit scheduling, and materials planning. Ensure service engineers adhere to scope of contract.
* Act as champion and process owner for existing Contracts to ensure that we delight our customers with our services, timeliness, quality, and communication.
* Monitor pending Contract expirations within 3 months and communicate with all stakeholders to engage in the renewal process.
* Proactively contact customers to schedule complimentary Health Checks or Sales Assist visits to increase service engineer productivity, especially when traveling.
* Communicate frequently and effectively with customers, service engineers, and Service Management to drive jobs forward and keep stakeholders informed.
To succeed, you will needEducation Level:
Education BA is preferred but not required with 5 or more years of production planning or project management experience.
Knowledge areas/Skills
* Production planning
* Project management
* SAP experience preferred
* This job requires communicating directly with customers to coordinate and plan various types of field service jobs.
* Strong organization skills
* Fluent Microsoft 365 suite applications
In return, we offer- Culture of trust and accountability
- Lifelong learning and career growth
- Innovation powered by people
- Comprehensive compensation and benefits
- Health and well-being
This position is onsite, supporting our valued customers at Intel!
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