Staff Industrial Engineer

Summary

Join Western Digital, a leader in data storage technology, and contribute to shaping the future of data. As a Production & Supply Chain Planner, you will be responsible for creating production plans, managing inventory, and resolving supply chain bottlenecks. You will collaborate with various teams, including business units, sales, and operations, to ensure efficient supply chain management. 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. Western Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, health insurance, retirement plans, and various other perks.

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

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

Preferred Qualifications

Great teammate, highly motivated, ambitious, and a quick learner

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