Production Planner

Position purpose

Experience

• 5–10 years of relevant experience in production planning, manufacturing planning, supply chain planning, or similar operational planning.
• At least 5 years of hands-on production planning experience.
• Manufacturing experience with varied products, customer-specific orders, multiple production processes, and multiple work centers, lines, or production areas.
• Proven capacity-planning and constraint-management experience; strong ERP/MRP experience.
• Experience coordinating Production, Procurement, Warehouse, Quality, and Customer/Delivery functions.
• Demonstrated improvements in planning accuracy, production performance, and delivery reliability.

Preferred experience

• Doors, furniture, cabinetry, closets, kitchens, joinery, woodworking, interior products, or similar engineered-to-order manufacturing experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience with Odoo or a comparable ERP system is preferred.

Technical competence

• Production planning and scheduling; MRP/ERP; capacity planning; material requirements planning; BOMs and routings.
• Lead-time management, production sequencing, work-center planning, inventory and WIP management, and bottleneck identification.
• Production KPI management, Excel and data analysis, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement/Lean manufacturing.

Leadership and working approach

Plan ownership and execution

• Maintain one clear, accurate, visible production plan and plan for factory execution rather than expectations.
• Identify risks to production and customer commitments before deadlines are missed.
• Review planned versus actual production daily and identify deviations promptly.
• For every significant deviation, define root cause, action, owner, deadline, and recovery date.
• Protect customer commitments by connecting production plans with delivery and installation needs.

Change control and escalation

• Control changes after the short-term plan is frozen; document reasons, priorities, impacts on orders and capacity, revised commitments, and approvals where required.
• Protect the factory from uncontrolled priority changes while preserving flexibility for genuine business needs.
• Challenge commitments unsupported by capacity, materials, manpower, machine availability, production constraints, or required lead time.
• Escalate critical unresolved risks with issue, business impact, root cause, options, recommended action, required decision, and deadline.

Continuous improvement and outcomes

• Continuously improve planning accuracy, production flow, capacity utilization, plan adherence, WIP, lead time, and production stability.
• Make production priorities, feasibility, required resources, bottlenecks, deviations, recovery ownership, and delivery commitments visible.
• Success means converting revenue commitments into realistic factory commitments and ensuring disciplined, visible execution.

Location

• The position is listed at DIP1, Dubai. The description does not specify a workplace arrangement.