Staff Industrial Engineer

Summary

Join Western Digital, a global technology leader, and contribute to the future of data storage. As a Supply Planner, you will be responsible for optimizing factory build plans and material requisition plans to ensure timely product delivery and meet corporate goals. This role requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent communication, and collaboration with various teams. A Bachelor's degree in a related field and 3-5 years of experience are required. Western Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, health insurance, retirement plans, and various other perks.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management or other related courses
• I2 or Integrated Planning experiences highly desired
• 3-5 years experience in related fields is a requirement
• Analytical and Problem Solving Skills with advance MS excel level
• Good English communication (Speaking and Writing)
• Excellent written and oral communication, interpersonal and relational skills, with the ability to quickly develop relationships of trust and confidence with a variety of people and personalities, at all levels within an organization
• Self-motivated with the ability to effectively multi-task and work collaboratively in a fast-paced, team environment
• Strong active listening skills with the ability to ask thoughtful and probing questions to determine client needs
• Ability to make clear, logical decisions based on facts, taking into consideration the big picture, long and short term effects, and exercising sound judgment when handling complaints, confidential and sensitive issues
• Demonstrate ability to deliver consistent positive results through influencing, coordinating, and managing the efforts of others

Responsibilities

• Responsible for supply planning of HDD
• Create and optimize factory build plans and material requisition plans that allow Western Digital to reliably deliver products on time and meet corporate revenue and profit goals
• I2 Plan Management which includes stewardship of weekly ASM, MC, BC runs, monitoring supply response, diagnosing and resolving supply/demand gaps and working with respective data input owners
• Co-ordination of MRP run and Material Plan analysis to identify gaps and work with Materials team/Procurement to alleviate bottlenecks
• Drive strategic discussions with the BU to align on inventory staging and trade-off opportunities
• Work closely with Supply Chain optimization team to ensure smooth implementation of Central Planning processes
• Work closely with Asia Planning and Production control teams to execute Production Plans
• Coordination with stakeholders including Demand Planning (CDO team), Asia Planning, Materials planning, Data Governance, IE (Capacity Planning), Product Operations Management, Sales Ops and CP project teams
• Demonstrate process area improvements
• Perform other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

MS degree in related discipline is an advantage

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
• You will be eligible to participate in Western Digital’s Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance
• Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan
• RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Western Digital’s Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards