Operations Planner

At FreeWire, we fundamentally change the way businesses and utilities electrify. We build battery-based energy storage systems that provide clean and quiet power anywhere it’s needed, reducing the cost and accelerating deployment of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. FreeWire’s solutions are evolving from providing ultrafast EV charging services to a full suite of energy services to accelerate sustainable electrification and provide resiliency to customers and a distributed power source to utilities. FreeWire has secured major strategic investors from Fortune 100 companies and serves leading corporate, utility, and retail customers. The feedback on the Boost Charger, FreeWire’s DC fast charger, has been overwhelmingly positive as we electrify locations that would have been too expensive to power on using conventional charging solutions. Utilities are releasing RFPs with requests for battery backed solutions, their regulatory teams are including our technology as eligible for incentives, and they are seeking cost effective solutions as they electrify their fleets and provide utility owned charging solutions for the public.

**Operations Planner**

**Monterrey, Mexico**

**Responsibilities**:

- Plans, organizes, controls, and executes a production schedule for a designated product in coordination with the contract manufacturer, onsite
- Develops production schedules based on actual and forecasted demand, product demand profiles, and knowledge of the manufacturer; analyzes inputs (e.g., capacity, board cycle times, urgency of request, material availability, etc.) to help determine schedule
- Analyzes internal impact (e.g., line scheduling, procurement, logistics, shipping, etc.) of Manufacturer scheduling
- Revises plans as required based on analysis of actuals versus plan
- Manages issues associated with engineering changes to ensure mínimal cost exposure, excess materials, and risk to customer shipment
- Participates in the introduction of new products, and supports the transfer/de-transfer of existing products through planning and analyzing of common and unique materials in support of project deadlines
- Communicates information on materials availability to support build plans (CTB)
- Helps to coordinate necessary resources to meet shipment commitments
- Develops recovery plans with the manufacturer if missed shipments occur
- All other duties as assigned

**Requirements**:

- 5 years minimum experience of an electrical/mechanical manufacturing environment, materials, and processes.
- 5 years minumum of production planning fundamentals, scheduling, materials requirements planning techniques and manufacturing control systems
- Good analytical and statistical skills
- Ability to plan strategically for the coordinated build and delivery of one or several products.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers

Preferred:

- Knowledge of basic manufacturing process in EV Chargers