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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.

•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.