Sales Order Management Rep

Req ID: 133880

Remote Position: No

Country: USA

State: Texas

City: Richardson

Summary

Celestica is looking for a detail-oriented Production Sales Order Management Rep to join our Supply Chain team. The ideal candidate will have 4-6 years of experience in production planning, scheduling support, or material control within a manufacturing environment. This role will primarily focus on executing, maintaining, and supporting the production schedules for complex system builds, with exposure to projects involving liquid cooling and data center rack integration.

Key Responsibilities

• Scheduling: Assist the Senior Production Planner in developing and maintaining the daily and weekly production schedules (MPS), ensuring alignment with material availability and established line capacity. Analyzes internal impact (e.g., line scheduling, procurement, logistics, shipping, etc.) of customer scheduling changes, communicating risks and necessary adjustments to functional teams.

• Material Readiness Execution: Coordinate closely with warehouse and procurement teams to ensure all necessary components are released to the production floor on time.

• Data Maintenance: Maintain the accuracy and integrity of critical planning data within the ERP/MRP system, including lead times, minimum order quantities (MOQs), and Bill of Materials (BOM) revisions.

• Inventory Control Support: Monitor work-in-process (WIP) and component inventory levels on the production floor. Help identify and report potential excess, surplus, or obsolete inventory.

• Line Coordination: Act as the direct daily link between the planning office and the production floor supervisors, communicating schedule changes, prioritizing hot jobs, and addressing immediate material discrepancies, especially for specialized liquid cooling and rack assembly stations.

• NPI Support: Assist in planning the material and capacity ramp for New Product Introduction (NPI) builds, ensuring planning parameters are accurately set up in the system prior to pilot runs.

• Reporting: Generate standard daily and weekly reports on schedule adherence, material shortages, and line capacity utilization for management review.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 4 to 6 years of experience in a planning, material control, or scheduling support role within a manufacturing environment.

• Foundational knowledge of the Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) or a similar high-tech assembly sector. Exposure to complex system integration is a plus.

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Operations Management, or a related field.

• Practical experience working with ERP/MRP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle). Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, for data analysis and tracking.

• Basic understanding of manufacturing workflow, demand planning principles, and the relationship between inventory and production schedules.

• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and a proactive, problem-solving attitude.

• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.

Physical Demands & Work Environment

• Work Environment: Duties are performed in a professional office setting with frequent time spent on the manufacturing floor for material verification and communication with production teams.

• Physical Demands: Primarily a desk-based role with frequent walking to different areas of the plant. Requires strong focus for data entry and system analysis.

• Flexibility: Must be able to manage competing priorities and adapt quickly to unexpected changes in the production schedule.

Typical Education

• Bachelor's degree in related field, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience. Educational requirements may vary by geography.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law).

At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process. Please indicate your needs and we will work with you to meet them.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development - from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.

Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.