Production Planner

This role is designed to provide a professionally competent and managed MRPII based Plant Planning service to the relevant plant(s) to ensure the cost-effective utilisation of resources by means of daily production schedules for semi and finished products that satisfy the overall Master Production Schedule(s).

Roles and Responsibilities

• Converts the Master Production Schedule into specific achievable daily or weekly Work Orders for final and semi products
• Reviews new and amended customer orders on computerised SAP system
• Monitor the tracking of customer orders daily on the current tracking system
• Determines short-term changes to plans ensuring total resource capability to support the change
• Develop shift by shift and detailed product executing plans
• Provide production instructions to plants
• Maintains a constant check on the demonstrated plant capacity and advises when this differs from planned demand
• Adjusts Plant production plans based on Plant performance against production instructions
• Ensures all planned Orders are properly closed off
• Inspect and sign off documentation from the Plants for material movements
• Oversee the data capturing of material movements
• Investigates and recommends finished and semi-product material stock physical adjustments
• Investigate material movement discrepancies as required
• Verify bill of materials where material movement discrepancies exist
• Assists Plant Manager(s) and Manager in the evaluation of capacities, identification of step changes and bottlenecks and development of proposals to optimise operations, reduce lead-times and work in progress
• Develop plans and schedules for cycle counts
• Publish schedules to Plants and Cost Accountants
• Issue cycle count list to relevant stakeholders in the Plants
• Randomly conduct audits on stock takes when required
• Print out cycle count stock balance and liaise with Plant Managers for sign off
• Investigate and correct anomalies on cycle count stock balance
• Comply with governance & compliance policies and procedures
• Stakeholder relations and management

Qualifications and Experience

Qualifications:

• Grade 12 with Maths or Accounting
• Working towards a CPIM or similar Inventory Management qualification would be an advantage

Skills Requirements:

• Technical knowledge (from practical experience) of specific machines in area.
• Working knowledge of SHE requirements in respect of an explosives manufacturing environment.

Specific experience required:

• At least 5 years relevant Production Planning experience within a production/distribution environment

Key Competencies

• Negotiation skills
• Assertiveness
• Pro-active
• Critical information seeking
• Teamwork
• Numerate skills
• Analytical skills
• Conceptual thinking
• Good communication skills
• Interpersonal awareness
• Assertiveness
• Negotiation skills

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