SIOP Director
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SMTC Corporation was founded in 1985. SMTC is a mid-size provider of end-to-end electronics manufacturing services (EMS) including PCBA production, systems integration and comprehensive testing services, enclosure fabrication, as well as product design, sustaining engineering and supply chain management services. SMTC has facilities in the United States, Mex
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ico, China and Canada. Services extend over the entire electronic product life cycle from the development and introduction of new products through to the growth, maturity and end-of-life phases.
Benefits Highlights:
• 401K with company match
• PTO, Paid Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Medical HRA Plan
• Short term/Long term Disability Insurance, etc.
Summary:
The SIOP Director is responsible for developing, implementing, and leading an integrated Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning process across the company’s global electronics manufacturing operations. This position oversees the end-to-end demand planning and demand-to-supply balancing process to improve forecast accuracy, capacity alignment, inventory performance, customer service, and operational decision-making.
Working cross-functionally with Commercial, Program Management, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Operations, this role consolidates customer and business demand into a reliable planning outlook and translates demand signals into actionable material, inventory, and production capacity plans. The position provides leadership with visibility into constraints, risks, trade-offs, and opportunities across a complex, multi-site, high-mix manufacturing environment.
Location: Dallas, TX or Melbourne, FL
Essential Functions:
• Design, implement, and lead a formal monthly SIOP process, including demand review, supply review, reconciliation, and executive SIOP meetings across all applicable locations.
• Establish and maintain an integrated demand planning process that provides a consistent and reliable source of demand information across the organization.
• Consistent interaction with 4-5 total SIOP resources across 3 production sites – this role will require the Leader to lead a council across sites with dotted line reporting
• Develop rolling forecasts by incorporating customer forecasts, historical demand, market and sales inputs, program requirements, and other relevant demand signals.
• Partner with Commercial and Program Management teams to evaluate, reconcile, and validate customer and program-level demand assumptions.
• Translate approved demand plans into material, component, production, and capacity requirements in partnership with Procurement, Supply Chain, and Operations.
• Incorporate electronic component lead times, allocation constraints, bills of material, supplier limitations, and other supply risks into planning decisions.
• Develop and maintain rolling capacity plans across manufacturing locations, identifying labor, equipment, material, and production constraints.
• Present planning gaps, business risks, competing priorities, and recommended trade-offs to executive leadership for timely decision-making.
• Lead inventory planning strategies that balance customer service requirements, working capital objectives, material availability, and excess and obsolete inventory exposure.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment between customer-facing teams and operational teams regarding forecast changes, production priorities, supply constraints, and recovery plans.
• Support new product introductions, new program launches, product transfers, and production ramp-ups through capacity planning, material readiness assessments, and risk mitigation.
• Establish and monitor SIOP and demand planning metrics, including forecast accuracy, forecast bias, inventory performance, capacity utilization, service levels, and plan adherence.
• Analyze planning performance, identify recurring gaps or root causes, and implement improvements that increase process maturity, accuracy, a