Senior Planning Engineer
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Description
Job Purpose
To establish, monitor, and enhance planning
effectiveness across Manufacturing and Service departments by ensuring
structured planning, accurate reporting, and performance tracking
Key Responsibilities
Planning Governance & Coordination
- Ensure both
Manufacturing and Service departments develop clear, realistic, and
data-driven plans (production plans, maintenance schedules, resource
allocation).
- Facilitate
alignment between departments on planning assumptions, priorities, and
constraints.
- Standardize
planning templates, tools, and methodologies across departments.
Performance
Monitoring & Control
- Track plan
vs. actual performance across all KPIs (production, service execution,
utilization, delivery, etc.).
- Identify gaps
in:
- Production
planning and adherence
- Maintenance
scheduling
- Resource
utilization
- Material
availability and delivery tracking
- Highlight
deviations and escalate critical risks to management.
Reporting & Data Integrity
- Enforce timely
submission of monthly reports from both departments.
- Review reports
for:
- Accuracy
- Completeness
- KPI alignment
- Consolidate and
present a management-level performance dashboard.
- Ensure data
consistency across all KPIs and reporting sections.
Planning Improvement & Optimization
- Analyze
inefficiencies such as:
- Production
delays
- Low team
utilization
- Poor schedule
adherence
- Inaccurate job
duration estimates
- Propose
actionable improvements using best practices.
- Drive
implementation of:
- Planning tools
(ERP/MRP scheduling, trackers)
- Standard
planning cycles (weekly/monthly)
- Forecasting
methods
Requirements
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s
degree in Engineering, Operations Management, or related field
- 10-15 years’
experience in:
- Production
planning / maintenance planning / operations control
- Experience in
both manufacturing and service environments is highly preferred
Skills & Competencies
- Strong
analytical and data interpretation skills
- Excel / ERP /
planning tools knowledge
- KPI design and
performance tracking
- Strong
coordination and stakeholder management
- Problem-solving
and root cause analysis
- High attention
to detail and discipline enforcement