Production Planner

2 weeks ago


Durban, South Africa Tower Group Full time

**Requirements for Applicants Educational**:

- National Diploma/Degree - Industrial Engineering or Operations Management Experiential:

- Minimum 2 years’ Operational working experience in an automotive industry manufacturing environment.

**Key Performance Areas Associated Tasks Process Control**:

- Receive customer releases
- Schedule and monitor production
- Schedule and arrange maintenance and repairs for manufacturing equipment.
- Schedule and arrange change -overs according to Production Plans (change-over sequence, etc.)
- Capture customer releases into the MRP system
- Capture production outputs into the MRP system
- Update daily Production Plans based on actual production output, changes in customer demand, material availability and operational capacity.
- Communicate Production schedules to relevant stakeholders
- MRP maintenance - reconciliation, demand and capacity alignment (shop order release planning & maintenance)
- Hardware maintenance and support - Label printers and scanners
- Monitor performance against internal KPI - (OEE monitoring, evaluation and communicate data analysis for decision -making)

**Project Management**:

- Identify, suggest and implement corrective actions to improve quality of project work.
- Raise requests for samples and update the sample request register
- Oversee production of product samples.
- Data administration - OEE capturing (compile production reports, presentations, and machine analysis

**Planning**:

- Daily packing analysis and administration for planning purposes
- Planning - Job card release to cover daily requirements and assist production planning (tool efficient planning and manning) & order processing and management
- Assist in planning, organising and supporting production meetings
- KPI administration - implement, review and update of all production objectives (internal, management & customer targets)
- Design, monitor and update KPI boards including green area information boards
- Monitor, evaluate and communicate production schedules
- CIP - Monitor, administer and report department CIP activities and process improvements (implement continuous improvement initiatives)
- Engineering change management - maintain and update ERPLX and internal documents.

**Production management**:

- Optimise production processes.
- Maintain manufacturing and production efficiencies
- Ensure optimal and efficient use of resources
- Balance production lines (capacity of process, manning, tooling, equipment, production flows)
- Monitor the achievement of daily production targets
- Analyse daily variances and identify opportunities for improvements
- Investigate and resolve manufacturing related problems and sub-standard performance

**Raw Management**:

- Monitor levels of production material to ensure timeous and sufficient availability to support production
- Identify rejects and process waste
- Conduct monthly stock counts


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