Staff Industrial Engineer

Summary

Join Western Digital as a Production & Supply Chain Planner and contribute to our global innovation. You will create production plans and material supply schedules, manage inventory and supply chain strategies, and resolve supply bottlenecks. Responsibilities include I2 plan management, coordinating with stakeholders across various departments, and reviewing and adjusting build plans. This role requires a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering/Supply Chain Management or a Bachelor's degree with relevant experience, along with strong analytical and communication skills. Experience with advanced planning systems like i2 and SAP is essential. Western Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, health insurance, life and disability insurance, retirement benefits, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering/Supply Chain Management (or Bachelor's degree with 2 years relevant experience)
• Understanding of supply chain best practices
• Good communication skills with the ability to work with multiple organizations in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Extensive data analytical skills including advanced knowledge of MS Excel, VBA, SQL, and Tableau
• Experience with Advanced Planning Systems such as i2 and SAP
• Great teammate, highly motivated, ambitious, and a quick learner

Responsibilities

• Create production plan and material supply schedule for assigned products to achieve shipping and financial targets
• Identify, diagnose, and help to resolve supply bottlenecks for assigned products in order to drive supply matching to demand
• Manage inventory and supply chain strategy for assigned products to ensure appropriate service levels with optimal cost
• Stewardship of I2 RE, Asia, Master Plan
• Manage I2 runtime reduction efforts
• Daily review of supply response for assigned products and diagnosing supply response gaps
• Coordination with I2 Input Owners (Capacity, POM, Silicon/Fab, Materials Supply)
• Publish Factory Loading Forecast and Material Plan
• Review site loading balance
• Identify capacity/material bottlenecks and drive resolution of constraints
• Assist Execution Teams with Build Plan Execution
• Asia Planning: Review & adjust build plan firming
• Asia Procurement: Materials procurement, inventory management, excess disposition
• Asia Execution: Coordinate on delivery schedules and commitments
• Coordination with Stakeholders
• Business Unit & Sales: Priorities, supply issues, demand confidence
• Product Operations Management: Qualification schedules, and BOM maintenance
• Sales Operations: Swap requests, expedited deliveries
• CPFR / VMI: Expedites
• Retail / OEM Ops: Supply visibility
• Cross Functional Team Representation: Silicon Planning, Monday Ops, Factory Loading

Benefits

• Paid vacation time
• Paid sick leave
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life, accident and disability insurance
• Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Employee assistance program
• Other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit
• The Applause Program
• Employee stock purchase plan
• The Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan
• Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan
• Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program
• Restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents