Manager: Prod Planning

Found in: Talent ZA C2 - 2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Weir Full time

Title: Planning Manager (Production)

Division: Weir Minerals South Africa

Location: Alrode

Purpose of Role: The successful candidate will maintain and improve on current production planning processes and slotting rooms by supporting the Supply Chain Planning Manager and department to deliver the required services to customers.

Why choose Weir:

Be part of a global organization dedicated to building a better future: At Weir, the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing, quickly adapting and continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each of us doing the best work of our lives. It’s a big challenge – but it is exciting.

An opportunity to g row your own way: Everything moves fast in the dynamic world of Weir. This creates opportunities for us to take on new challenges, explore new areas, learn, progress and excel. Best of all, there is no set path that our people must take. Instead, everyone is given the support and freedom to tailor-make their own career and do the best work of their lives.

Feel empowered to b e y ou rself and b elong : Weir is a welcoming, inclusive place, where each individual’s contribution is recognized and all employees are encouraged to innovate, collaborate and be themselves. We continually focus on people and their wellbeing. We believe in fairness and choose to be honest, transparent and authentic in everything we do.

Key Responsibilities:

Safety First: Demonstrate 100% commitment to our zero harm behaviors in support of our drive towards developing a world class safety culture.

Loading of production and/or sales orders for OE products as per KPI’s

Raising and confirming order acknowledgments for these products with respective sales personnel

Creating all job packs and ensuring that the quality of the information in the job packs is of the highest standard and making sure all info is as per customer specification (ie. Correct drawings, IOF, QCP’s BOM, pick slips, etc.)

Maintenance of MRP action messages related to the production orders such as Cancel, Schedule in, and Schedule out instructions

Regular reviews and confirmation of the correctness of production BOM’s and driving necessary actions to have any anomalies corrected in the system

Maintaining order date alignment to ensure production order start and due dates aligns with customer required due dates

Maintenance and updating of slotting room visual management tools (i.e. slotting room tags, production orders status, accountability boards, etc.)

Maintenance and actioning of sales change notes on production orders, ensuing any excess stock due to changes are costed to the project and shipped to the customer

Production scheduling using BOM, taking into consideration in-house capacity and engaging with 3rd party suppliers to confirm if they will be able to meet part lead times.

Ability to read and understand general arrangement drawings

Create a monthly production output forecast and break it down into weekly buckets

On manual projects, production BOM verifications need to be done with product managers and sales engineers

Expediting and sourcing where necessary of lower-level items through the branch network and with purchasing or other production departments to ensure the availability of lower-level stock for OE items

Living the values of Support Care by striving to make our internal customers successful by providing constant communication and updates of project progress to these customers and other stakeholders

Attendance of project handover meetings with the sales and projects team to ensure all crucial data is maintained for projects that projects are maintained accordingly

Loading and ordering of ERP items as and when required

Management and accountability for sub-contract orders linked to the respected products

Maintenance of production BOM during the production process i.e. assisting with negative orders for NCR’s (non-conformance reports), the addition of items due to sales changes or BOM corrections, etc.

Maintenance of production orders routing (i.e. sub-con, production hours, etc.)

Raise NCR’s and be able to investigate and close us out open NCR’s by identifying the root cause and putting into place effective and efficient preventative action into place.

Job Knowledge/Education and Qualifications:

BEng Industrial Engineering Degree

Additional APICS certification would be advantageous

Setup and use of production/shop floor control functionality in ERO system SFC (shop floor control) logic – SAP would be advantageous

Understanding of Value chain drivers and Theory of Constraints, Lean Process/Business improvement and problem solving capability, Project Management.

Minimum 5-10 years’ experience in ERP System Management

Founded in 1871, Weir is a world leading engineering business with a purpose to make mining operations smarter, more efficient and sustainable. Thanks to Weir’s technology, our customers can produce essential metals and minerals using less energy, water and waste at lower cost. With the increasing need for metals and minerals for climate change solutions, Weir colleagues are playing their part in powering a low carbon future. We are a global family of 11,000 uniquely talented people in over 60 counties, inspiring each other to do the best work of our lives.

For additional information about what it is like to work at Weir, please visit our and .



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