Production Planner
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- **Job description**- Optimize resources and the scheduling of resources to meet production demand.
- Maintain planning and scheduling horizons to ensure visibility to all production stakeholders i.e., customer service, sales and supply chain functions.
- **Responsibilities**- Coordinating planning activities with Customer Service representatives, Sales team, and Supply chain to ensure that products are manufactured on given time to meet Customer requirements
- Ensure that committed production quantities are delivered on time and in full.
- Attend the daily demand meeting to update the CSD and sales on the production plan.
- Work with the materials planner to ensure that all raw materials are available for production to avoid production delays or disruption due to non-availability of raw materials.
- Ensure timely update of production orders on ERP to minimize variances and enhance supply chain material planning efforts.
- Use the sales forecast to prepare a long horizon production plan.
- Implement manufacturing strategy for planning of products based on their planning key
• (Critical, High, Medium, Low)
- Monitor and consider on-hand stocks of finished goods and raw materials while planning.
- Liaise with the maintenance planner to include the monthly preventive maintenance in the production schedule.
- Monitor the daily productivity and report any issues.
- Attend to actions related to slow or non-moving items.
- Improve M-OTIF, Monitor OEE and utilization per line & per station, monitor forecast accuracy and its impact on planning.
- Improve reworks of non-confirming products.
- Monitor and coordinate with supervisors to improve material usage variance (MUV)
- Follow-up of work orders from production cells and QC.
- Set self as an example to colleagues in punctuality, commitment, respect to work hours, and dedication.
- Carry over additional duties as assigned by the Production Manager or Operations Manager.
**Skills required** Essential
Fluent in English
Excellent communication skills
Interpersonal and leadership skills
5 years’ experience in production planning
Desirable
Project management background or experience is a plus
Arabic speaking
Saudi national
Experience
on production shopfloor in chemical industries.
Experience
in S&OP planning
**Educational requirements** BSc degree in industrial engineering, manufacturing
**Job role notes** Key Working Relationships:
Operations Manager (Regular)
CSD team (Daily)
Maintenance planner (Regular)
Technical Staff (Regular)
HSE team (Regular)
External
Visitors (as needed)
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