Production Planning Specialist

Job description

The opportunity

Production Planning Specialist work focuses on developing and maintaining a detailed production schedule aligned with the production plan to optimize resource utilization and ensure adherence to production specifications and timelines.

How you’ll make an impact

Own capacity planning and management framework. Maintain and follow-up accurate capacity utilization by period of each work center and/or control points. Provide them visible to S&OP as well as Master Scheduling process. Own and maintain the capacity/loading measurement of each work center/resource. Ensure the accurate planning data of operations (duration, standard labor time...) for accurate capacity/loading evaluation and operations scheduling (of each order/design/period).

Convert Master Production Schedule into feasible finite schedules by work center together with other secondary constraints as soon as receive the MPS schedule and give feedback to Master Scheduler. Balance load across bottleneck and non-bottleneck resources. Manage the Assembly Buffer and Bottleneck Buffer. Maintain Master Data of routing, work center, and capacity setup, calendars in SAP. Follow-up Production Order Management in SAP.

Manage detailed and minor re-scheduling for delays, breakdowns, and priority changes. Prepare and update short-term production plans including Resource Readiness and Material Availability Check. Monitor the planned input, actual input, planned output, actual output at each control point. Give the feedback of execution to Master Schedule. Periodically review the planning parameters based on input/output control data. Publish capacity utilization and schedule adherence by period.

Planned and actual performance reports.

Your background

Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Management, or a related field. Minimum of 2 years of experience in production planning, scheduling, or manufacturing operations, energy or heavy industry preferred. Hands-on experience with ERP/MRP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle) and production planning tools. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and data-driven decision-making skills; advanced Excel proficiency.

Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills; able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. Fluent in English; knowledge of Lean/Continuous Improvement methodologies is advantageous.