Sr. Production Planner (Fabrication)

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Responsible for conversion of supply plan into a master production schedule which can be executed.

This position reports to

Planning & Fulfillment Manager

Your responsibilities

• Translate projected forecasts, incoming volume, and work scopes into a production plan with a time-phased build schedule. Establish key performance indicators of master plan accuracy. Ensure the interaction of a firm’s functional managers, and track and maintain the forecast through timely and accurate feedback. Assemble master schedule reporting regarding performance to the business plan, the shipment plan, the inventory plan, and the production plan. Identify current planned level of demand and create tactical production plans to meet the identified customer demand. Calculate production lead times. Manage load levelling and bottleneck scheduling and utilize theory of constraints (TOC) for more accurate scheduling. Analyze production floor status through input/output control reporting.
• Maintains planning parameters in ERP and planning systems.
• Works with customer service to provide appropriate delivery dates, and material planners to convert the Supply Plan into a master production schedule. Schedule supply based on the product mix and provide accurate commitment dates to customer service team across multiple product lines. Provide input to finance on operating plans for the sales and operations planning (S&OP) process, concerning incoming volume and capacity.
• Manages MRP (Materials Resource Planning) exception messages on a daily basis. Working with local execution, Local P&F manager and Hub P&F manager to resolve issues.
• Provides input into S&OP and short term planning processes. Identifies issue that cannot be resolved locally. Provides feedback regarding feasibility of the plan. Engage in capacity management during sales and operations planning, master scheduling, materials requirements planning, and production activity control.

Your background

• Bachelor´s Degree in Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, International Relations or related.
• 5 years of experience working in similar position.
• Knowledge in ERP, Advanced Excel and APICS.
• Experience in managing products with a medium to long manufacturing cycle.
• Experience in made to order companies and Engineering to order is a plus.
• A collaborative, solution-focused approach, and strong written and spoken communication skills. Organization – Dynamism.
• Intermediate-Advanced level of English.

More about us

We look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. Work model: on site #LI-onsite