What you'll do:
Order Management: Ensure daily order booking aligns with raw material availability and update status against the plan.
• Daily/Weekly/Monthly Machine shop Planning: Declare Machine shop plans at the start of each month based on SIOP, past dues, customer urgencies, material availability, and manufacturing capacity.
• Weekly Planning Coordination: Coordinate with Material and Supply chain departments to schedule weekly assembly plans in alignment with monthly production plans.
• Monitor Daily Meetings: Attend daily assembly board meetings and align actions for stores/packing for material issues and QA for inspection priorities.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with in-house, subcontracting, supply chain and Quality to fulfill weekly assembly loading plans and address day-to-day issues in planning and execution. Focus on past due orders and address customer urgencies ensuring manufacturing activities aligning with third-party inspection notifications in line with the build plan.
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• Performance Monitoring: Monitor weekly assembly loading plans, analyze plan versus actual performance, take corrective actions as needed, and strive to maintain uniform daily build rates with maximum efficiency.
• Ensure the system health to be maintained consistently.
• Coordinate production workflow for one or multiple products
• Plan and prioritize operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay
• Determine manpower, equipment and raw materials needed to cover production demand
• Schedule shift according to production needs
• Monitor jobs to ensure they will finish on time and within budget
• Address issues when they arise aiming for minimum disruption
• Keep paperwork organized
• Collaborate with quality control, Materials, warehouse, engineering, SCM, and all other Functions
• Manage Inventory and DOH as per profit Plan - Ensure Min-Max/Replenishment strategy to meet Company Inventory Goals
Qualifications:
Proven experience as production planner, >7 years of experience in production planning within a manufacturing environment, preferably in Automotive manufacturing or a similar industry.
Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• Proficiency in ERP systems, for production planning and inventory management. Hands-on experience in excel.
• Strong working experience with Microsoft office Tools (Word, Excel, Power point...), Visual Macro Excel proficiency will be added advantage.
• Strong understanding of material requirements planning (MRP) and supply chain management.
• Experience in coordinating with multiple departments to ensure seamless production planning and execution.
• Analytical skills to monitor and improve production plans and processes.
• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration with various teams, including materials, stores, quality, and assembly.
• Problem-solving skills to address and resolve planning and scheduling issues promptly.
• Ability to maintain a high level of organization and attention to detail to manage multiple priorities and deadlines. Understanding of S&OP (SIOP) is a must.
• Strong understanding of Safety stock, Min-Max logic methodology, Demand management
Skills:
Understanding of manufacturing processes and production planning concepts.
• Experience with advanced ERP systems, Knowledge of advanced Excel.
• Good at math and statistics
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills, Excellent communication abilities
• Capable of describing and documenting overall production planning strategies.
• Contribute to and help maintain the planning framework for various types of production planning (material requirements planning, capacity planning, inventory management) across multiple manufacturing processes (in-house, subcontracting, and supply chain).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.