Capacity Planner Job Description
Capacity planner
provides right-sizing and optimization for applications migrating to Private Cloud and AWS and in support of Data Center Consolidation.
Capacity Planner Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Good knowledge of MS office (specifically Excel and Power Point)
Monthly capacity commits submitted to all global factories, split by replenishment and pre-book volume that will be placed on order in the current month at the style color level
Ensures data recovery, maintenance, data integrity, and space requirements are met
Produces and analyzes capacity reports on mainframe processor and storage utilizations
Participates on and may lead departmental or cross-functional project teams
Ensuring that there is adequate IT capacity to meet required levels of service, and that senior IT management is correctly advised on how to match capacity and demand and to ensure that use of existing capacity is optimized
Forecasting future capacity requirements based on business plans, usage trends, sizing of new services
Identifying and initiating any tuning to be carried out to optimize and improve capacity or performance
Maintaining a knowledge of future demand for IT services and predicting the effects of demand on performance service levels
Ensure Quality Management of i2 planning data input for all production capacities for internal Fabs, NXP capacities (MSA), external manufacturing and within Nexperia manufacturing sites including dual sourcing, transfers, subcontractors, capacity relevant product changes
Capacity Planner Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Capacity Planner
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: APICS, PMP, II, IAT, ITIL, CPF, CSCP, CPIM
Education for Capacity Planner
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the capacity planner job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Information Systems, Education, Business/Administration, Finance
Skills for Capacity Planner
Desired skills for capacity planner include:
Analytical predictive modeling techniques
Particularly AWS
Public cloud platforms
Cloud data center structure and design is strongly
Operating systems and hardware capabilities
Excel
Functional area and of telecommunications networks and technologies
Job related functional area and of the telecommunications business
MESH
SONET/SDH
Desired experience for capacity planner includes:
Previous experience with deployment procedures in a large network
A BS in information systems, computer science, or a related discipline is required
Able to handle high pressure fast paced environment
Strong desire for accountability and responsibility
Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and business/IT partner interaction skills
Replenishment product lead time oversight sourced to assigned suppliers
Capacity Planner Examples
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Capacity Planner Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of capacity planner. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for capacity planner
- Controlling and Reporting of Data Quality Management with KPI’s and watch light reports
- Execute weekly checks on capacity updates to be reflected in planning systems
- Involved in Pre S&OP & AS&OP process
- Responsible for the SAP BW upload of data which are not used in planning system but are needed in decision making process
- Tier 2 higher level technical support for the FiOS VOD, Advertising and content grooming platforms
- Reaction as detected to outages including leadership of necessary VZ and supplier parties to timely restoral of service
- Establishment and use of monitoring of platform health/performance for detection of performance improvements
- Leadership of VZ and supplier resources to implement improvements
- Availability at all times for emergency outage conditions
- Owner of Tactical Capacity for PCL Network including line loading, recommendations for overflowing volume, and cost effective network management
Qualifications for capacity planner
- Audit PIR records per any sourcing changes impacting assigned suppliers
- Maintain construction type and sub-process classifications for all products sourced to assigned suppliers
- Working days by month and factory
- Factory production plans
- Daily capacity commit by month and factory
- Purchasing and manufacturing times
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Capacity Planner Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a capacity planner. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for capacity planner
- Sizing of new requirements, support for business cases
- Provide input for hardware procurement
- Auditing of systems and applications performance
- Measure and report on total and utilized capacity of a broad range of core IT infrastructure resources
- Advanced level understanding of an industry standard structured language like Perl, Java and Unix Shell Scripting
- Manages weekly capacity planning activities in CNA including management of key master data inputs (rates, production calendars, sourcing, production cycles)
- Monitor Machine and Tool loading for Plants 97 and 98 Assembly and Plant 84 Stamping
- Review monthly, weekly reports, monitor network metrics to determine growth demand, then cooperate with individual planners adjusting the resources to meet business demand
- Work in a cooperative environment to maintain the global network quality of service
- Resolve network performance issues
Qualifications for capacity planner
- They mean to deployments
- Familiarity with networks and systems - switches, routers, DWDM, and servers
- Have a good understanding of queuing theory
- Have zPCR experience and basic subsystem knowledge of CICS, IMS and DB2
- Recognised qualification in aeronautical, aviation, design related or mathematical discipline
- This is a global role where key stakeholders are spread across geography/time zones
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of capacity planner. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for capacity planner
- Act as role model to others for safety & security behavior
- Perform task in line with safety practice and guideline
- Bear full responsibilities of wearing PPE during work
- To report any potential risk in the plant in order to maintain a safety working environment
- There will be no horse play, by passing SOP/Safety & Security procedures to compromise your safety and the safety of others
- Follow DSM 12-Life Saving Rules
- Adhere to the DSM SHE & Security Behaviors standard
- Several different stakeholders on a day to day basis (Production, Purchasing, Logistic, Commercial, QC & DSCM)
- Continuously changing demand and short lead time orders gives challenges in forecasting and planning of raw material consumption and determining the necessary stock levels
- Limited accuracy of the demand forecast requires flexibility in planning and inventory management
Qualifications for capacity planner
- Knowledge of cGMP compliance requirements including documentation, investigations, and auditing and associated control systems is preferred
- Demonstrated ability to work with others, be flexible as priorities change, and be extremely sensitive to deadlines and customer needs
- Four or more year of related experience
- Demonstrate ability to work with others, be flexible as priorities change, and be extremely sensitive to deadlines and customer needs
- Ability to anticipate and respond actively in meeting customer demand is preferred
- With characteristic of independent, eager to learn new things, proactive and aggressive behavior/attitude would make you work as a planner smoothly
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of capacity planner. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for capacity planner
- Back up production planner (will be trained for that)
- Degree or Diploma with sound experience preferably in supply chain and inventory management or logistics
- General knowledge of inventory planning and management a plus
- Required level of experiences
- At least 3 years experience in material planning preferably in the industry of ingredient supplier, food or supplement manufacturer
- Able to work with multi culture
- Independent working attitude
- The Reward
- Ensure stable technical environments on mainframe Operation system & OEM components
- Collect and provide accurate system performance data & reports
Qualifications for capacity planner
- Three or more years of hands on experience with VOD, advertising or content grooming/distribution platforms at a service provider or supplier to FiOS/Cable MSO companies
- BS degree (or higher) in computer science, networking, video production/distribution or information technology
- Bachelor’s Degree (Business, Logistics, Operations Planning, Engineering preferred)
- 3-5 years’ experience in supply chain planning (factory, demand or capacity)
- APICS a plus or progress towards certification, preferred
- Proficiency in PC based software tools (Microsoft Office Suite), SAP, APO (preferred), Access Database (or similar)
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of capacity planner. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for capacity planner
- Incident handling for resumption of services and problem resolution with root cause analysis
- Daily monitoring of mainframe system metric (KPI) to identify improvement opportunities
- On-call support (24 x 7) and fulfil requests/questions from clients and/or other support teams
- Identifies how capacity will be increased along with associated costs and works with appropriate teams
- Develop performance reports across critical distributed environments using
- Tracks and trends claim operational metrics (receipts, production, overtime, inventory, ) to help drive business decisions
- Analyzes operational metrics to enhance forecasts and make recommendations
- Generate & review the STEP files with the claims supervisors and managers to ensure assumptions are accurate and up to date
- Monitor and publish results to plan, identify gaps & lead remediation strategy with operations
- Assists the Claim Operations by creating “what if” scenarios that allows the business functions to make informed decisions by understanding the impacts miscellaneous assumptions will have to their inventory
Qualifications for capacity planner
- Familiarity with third party colocation - space, power, cross connects, and what
- Minimum of Bachelor’s degree, from an accredited institution, plus seven (7) years of professional-level planning, or supply chain experience
- In lieu of this, an MBA or Masters, from an accredited institution, in Operations or Supply Chain Management plus a minimum of one (1) year of experience in planning or Operations
- A Bachelor's degree or four or more years of equivalent experience
- Foundation level of ITIL v3 Service Transition and Service Design processes
- Working knowledge of project management disciplines and tools