Wood Factory Production Engineer
Role Overview
Plan, coordinate, and monitor production at a wood factory to use manpower, machinery, materials, and capacity efficiently.
Develop schedules, coordinate material readiness, and track manufacturing progress against priorities and deadlines.
Department: Production. Description location: Sudair, Saudi Arabia.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Plan, coordinate, and monitor production at a wood factory to use manpower, machinery, materials, and capacity efficiently.
Develop schedules, coordinate material readiness, and track manufacturing progress against priorities and deadlines.
Department: Production. Description location: Sudair, Saudi Arabia.
Responsibilities
- Develop and monitor daily, weekly, and monthly plans based on project priorities and delivery schedules.
- Allocate manpower, machinery, materials, and capacity for efficient production.
- Check BOMs, work orders, material availability, and production readiness before releasing jobs.
- Coordinate workflow and material availability with Design, Estimation, Procurement, Warehouse, and Production teams.
- Track production against plans, identify delays and bottlenecks, and monitor productivity and machine utilization.
- Coordinate priorities across projects and align schedules with requirements, available materials, and factory capacity.
- Report progress, productivity, capacity utilization, material readiness, and delays.
- Find improvements in planning, resource utilization, workflow, and manufacturing performance.
- Monitor inventory needs and material consumption; maintain planning data, schedules, and reports in ERP/MRP.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of production planning experience in wood manufacturing, joinery, or woodworking factories.
- Strong knowledge of wood manufacturing processes, production routing, shop drawings, and manufacturing workflows.
- Understanding of BOMs, work orders, MRP, inventory control, and material consumption.
- Experience in production scheduling, capacity planning, manpower allocation, and resource optimization.
- Hands-on experience with ERP manufacturing modules or equivalent systems.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, ERP systems, production planning and scheduling tools, and AutoCAD.
- Strong analytical, organizational, coordination, and problem-solving skills; ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines.
Required skills
- Production planning and scheduling; production capacity planning.
- Wood manufacturing and joinery; ERP/MRP systems; BOM and work order management.
- Inventory and material requirements planning; manpower and machine utilization.
- Microsoft Excel, AutoCAD, production reporting, and performance monitoring.
- Problem-solving and cross-functional coordination.
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