Engineering Planner

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3 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $75,000.00 To $ Annually

SOMACIS, Inc. – Global Printed Circuit Board Manufacturer for 50+ Years

Company Overview:
SOMACIS, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), serving a diverse range of industries, including Aerospace, Avionics, Military, Commercial, and Medical Applications. Our commitment to quality and innovation has earned us a reputation as a trusted partner and supplier of high-performance PCBs.

Position Summary

The Front-End Engineering (FEE) Planner plays a key role in supporting PCB manufacturing operations by preparing, verifying, and releasing accurate shop travelers and tooling instructions for remakes, repeat orders, re-panelizations, and repeat orders with engineering changes.

This role ensures that manufacturing documentation accurately reflects customer requirements, product specifications, approved manufacturing processes, and applicable industry standards. Working closely with Front-End Engineering, CAM, and other manufacturing teams, the FEE Planner helps ensure a smooth production workflow, minimize errors, and meet customer delivery commitments.

The ideal candidate has prior PCB planning experience, strong attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining a high level of accuracy and quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and release manufacturing documentation: Accurately and promptly prepare and release shop travelers and tooling instructions for remakes, repeat orders, re-panelizations, and repeat orders with changes.
• Coordinate tooling requirements: Release manufacturing instructions to CAM for tooling generation and coordinate with relevant departments to ensure all necessary documentation and information are available.
• Review customer and manufacturing documentation: Read, interpret, and verify purchase orders, shop travelers, engineering drawings, specifications, and other relevant documentation to ensure accuracy and compliance with customer requirements.
• Verify manufacturing process flow: Ensure shop travelers accurately reflect the approved manufacturing process steps, routing, and sequence, including correct board and panel quantities.
• Implement engineering changes: Review and interpret Engineering Change Notices (ECNs), update affected shop travelers, and issue the necessary instructions to CAM and other departments to ensure changes are correctly implemented.
• Ensure documentation accuracy and quality: Identify and resolve discrepancies, missing information, or inconsistencies before releasing documentation to the next stage of the manufacturing process.
• Support cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with Front-End Engineering, CAM, and manufacturing teams to resolve planning issues, maintain workflow continuity, and support on-time production.
• Contribute to continuous improvement: Identify opportunities to improve planning accuracy, documentation quality, and process efficiency.
• Perform additional duties: Support other department and company activities as assigned by the department supervisor.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor in a Technical discipline preferred; equivalent relevant work experience may be considered.
• Prior PCB planning experience is required.
• Working knowledge of PCB manufacturing processes, planning procedures, and production documentation.
• Ability to interpret customer requirements, engineering drawings, product specifications, and manufacturing instructions.
• Familiarity with Engineering Change Notices (ECNs) and their implementation in manufacturing…