Planning Manager

Job Purpose:

The Planning Manager is responsible for designing a detailed forecasted baseline production plan, ensuring production schedules are running smoothly, as per each work order's requirements, specifications, and delivery time.

The goal is to ensure that each work order is fulfilled in a timely and cost-effective manner with the quality and quantities required.

Job Specifications:

Duty 1. Production Scheduling:

• Design a detailed workflow plan with defined schedules and durations for the production team.
• Highlight and prioritize critical tasks, operations, and activities based on the forecasted production plan to ensure maximum productivity and minimize any delays or errors.
• Coordinate with the production team to ensure optimum utilization of equipment and effective manpower allocation to deliver each order on time.
• Coordinate with the Maintenance Department to ensure that maintenance schedules are executed regularly without interrupting the production plan, to promote defect-free work quality.
• Review daily the schedule plan to ensure on-time and accurate processing of sequences between operations.
• Manage multiple work orders simultaneously while ensuring that each meets the desired goals.

Duty 2. Material Requirements Planning (MRP):

• Conduct meetings with the Sales Department to identify each project's deliverables, milestones, requirements, and timeframe.
• Prepare a forecasted baseline list of the raw materials as per each project's requirements and in accordance with the agreed policies and procedures.
• Coordinate with the Procurement Department to generate purchase requisitions based on production needs.
• Coordinate with the Inventory (Warehouse Department) to ensure availability of the required materials and to avoid having excess stock or shortage for better utilization of the company’s warehouse and its capacity.

Duty 3. Reporting & Following Up:

• Track and monitor the daily work progress and prepare weekly and monthly status reports.
• Report deviations or variances from the forecasted production plan versus the actual, along with a comprehensive action plan for solving any issues that might arise.
• Develop both “Recovery Schedules” in case of order production delays and “Revised Schedules” in case of changed orders.
• Submit close-out reports to act as a reference for the company for similar upcoming projects.
• File and document all the planning reports and necessary documents.