Production Planner

Job description

About the Team Based out of our Military Vehicle Centre of Excellence (MILVEHCOE), the RDA Operations Support team consists of experienced and dedicated engineers, planners and project managers who provide specialised support to our Production teams across our assembly lines. Reporting into the Senior Production Scheduler, the Production Planner will collaborate with various internal stakeholders to maintain relevant production schedules.

About the Role As a Production Planner with Rheinmetall Defence Australia, you will be continually optimising the plan against manufacturing capacity, material availability and customer delivery dates, in conjunction with the allocated Project Manager.

Some of you taskings will include: Maintenance of the integrated production schedule for all current product families and programs, aligned with capacity, takt and material constraints; Build, maintain, schedule and release production orders in SAP for system, module and component, including revisions and order changes driven by engineering updates; Lead the management of material availability per production order in line with the schedule, maintain shortage lists and ETAs, track and expedite supply and escalate risks early; Populate build status reports for production order completion, maintain WIP visibility and update plan versus actual; and Develop standardised production scheduling and material availability status reports;