Production Planner

3 weeks ago


Midrand, South Africa The Recruitment Agency South Africa Full time

Overview

Position: Production Planner

Location: Midrand

**Salary**: Market Related and Negotiable

**Job Purpose**

To create, modify, and manage production schedules.

Monitoring of inventory levels, regularly providing production status updates to management and facilitating timely delivery of products to customers.

Monitoring of the production process to ensure that production orders are completed on time and within budget.

Managing of production deadlines, demonstrating excellent time management, organizational and problem-solving skills to ensure that production operations run smoothly.

**Key Performance Areas/Accountabilities/High level functions**:

- Developing production plans and timelines
- Determine production requirements based on plant capacity, product requirements and plans according to sales specifications and requirements
- Promptly addressing and resolving production issues to minimize delays in production
- Identify, maintain and drive working Operational Risk/Event register
- Reviewing inventory accuracy; reporting anomalies for correction authorization.
- Create and maintain critical lists on critical stock items
- Liaising with Engineering/Procurement departments to ensure on time supply chain delivery
- Monitor and report production progress in line with programme(s) requirements & schedules in a timely manner
- Promptly communicate the relevant department of changes to current production schedules
- Loading and ordering of ERP items
- Establish and improving forecasting systems/models and continuous improvement
- Creating job packs and ensuring quality of the information in the job packs are of high standard
- Ensure proper maintenance of MBOM’s
- Raise Non conformance

**Qualification and Experience**:

- 5 - 10 years manufacturing experience in the defence / automotive industry
- Industrial Engineering qualification
- Proven experience working as a Production Planner
- Sound knowledge of material requirements planning (MRP) and related software

**Knowledge, Skills and Attributes**:

- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Result driven
- Self-motivated
- Integrity, patience, reliable and responsible
- Analytical, numerically astute with strong proven problem-solving abilities
- Results orientated with the ability to plan and delivery against project deadlines
- Keen attention to details and accuracy
- Quality Controls
- Good verbal communication
- Assertiveness and self -motivated
- Ability to add value, reduce costs and make business improvements
- Team environment - open to giving and receiving constructive criticism (peer reviews)
- Personal Time Management
- Maintain housekeeping

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Application Question(s):

- Do you have sound knowledge about material requirements planning (MRP) and related software?

**Experience**:

- manufacturing within defence or automotive industry: 5 years (preferred)
- Production Planner: 5 years (preferred)

License/Certification:

- Industrial Engineering Qualification (preferred)


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