Production Planner

3 weeks ago


Boksburg, South Africa Multi-Color Corporation Full time

**Key Performance Areas**:

- Daily planning of production facility according to capacity and customer requirements in accordance with materials, labor and equipment availability.
- **Scheduling and Planning**: Obtain orders from Customer Service in order to create a job in system, plan production based on capacity and pull system. Prioritize jobs considering request dates and production efficiencies. Address issues when they arise aiming for minimum disruption. Communicate and negotiate with the sales if delays occurred. Clearly communicate relevant departments of changes to current production schedules. Promptly addressing and resolving production issues to minimize delays in production. Conduct daily planning meetings.
- **Capacity Rationalization**: Work closely with Customer Service and Production in job order sequencing to optimize manufacturing capacity on a pull system and ensure all inputs to production are available prior to going to press. Monitor production efficiency comparing production hours vs. output.
- **Operations Support**: Support production goals and objectives through managing the initial job plan, while maintaining OTIF and reduce working capital. Report backlog daily. Obtain daily output information (number of finished products, percentage of plan achieved, OTIF, etc.). Planning and prioritizing operations to ensure maximum performance
- ** Customer Relationship**: Promote a customer-focused culture at the Plant, ensuring on-time deliveries of a quality product and supporting the development of new products and technologies.
- ** People**: Build a network of relationships within the Corporation and the Plant to manage the scheduling and planning functions.
- **Continuous Improvement (CI) **of planning procedures and systems to enhance operational efficiencies

**Experience/ Skills required**
- Minimum 3 Years proven experience as a production planner in the manufacturing industry
- Very good knowledge of production planning and manufacturing capacity concepts
- Minimum grade 12 Senior certificate
- Further education or certification is advantageous
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- High level of attention to detail
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proficiency in MS office or equivalent software
- Formal production planning software training or software knowledge advantageous


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