Job Description

Plan resources, personnel, and materials for various work centers within production cells to ensure the timely delivery of customer orders.

1. Detailed Planning

• Translate the master build plan into an optimal schedule for available resources (production activities, machine capacity, personnel, materials, and equipment).
• Break down production orders across work centers by analyzing:
• Required work activities
• Number of machines needed
• Personnel requirements
• Material and component requirements.

2. Progress Monitoring

• Convert the master plan into production and assembly schedules for each work center, taking into account delivery dates and the availability of machines, personnel, and materials.
• Identify problems and shortages within the Cell Support Team, supplying departments, and other departments, and propose solutions.
• Inform the Master Planning department and, after consultation with the Cell Support Team, communicate possible solutions (e.g., partial deliveries or delayed delivery).
• Integrate backorders and rush orders into the production schedule using the ERP system.
• Issue shop orders to the Cell Captains.
• Monitor work progress, identify bottlenecks, communicate findings to relevant departments, and recommend schedule adjustments.
• Participate in improvement project teams focused on cost reduction, quality improvement, and information management.
• Determine when work should be outsourced in the event of work center overload, based on ERP system information.

3. Information Management

• Monitor expected delivery dates.
• Generate BDS reports to identify shortages and work with relevant departments to resolve them.
• Determine and communicate production priorities using the ERP system, including priority setting within the production cell.
• Verify material availability and issue required documentation.
• Process planning data in the ERP system.
• Check, sort, and distribute required documents.
• Record machine hours, labor hours, and materials/components used.

4. Expediting

• Discuss supplier information related to shortage lists with relevant departments.
• Report recurring supplier delivery delays to the Cell Manager and/or Buyers.
• Ensure purchased materials are available on time.

Job Characteristics

Communication

• Discuss shortages, excess capacity, and possible solutions with the Cell Support Team.
• Discuss planning and assembly issues with the Cell Support Team and, for more complex issues, with the Operations Manager.
• Coordinate problems and solutions with supplying and receiving departments.
• Communicate material requirements.
• Inform the Sales department about delivery delays and possible solutions.
• Exchange system (coding) information with the System Administrator.
• Discuss priorities, disruptions, and work instructions primarily with the Cell Support Team and, when necessary, with the Operations Manager.

Authority

• Modify production schedules in consultation with the Cell Manager and Support Team.
• Issue shop orders and job queues to the Cell Support Team.
• Propose solutions to operational bottlenecks.
• Act as the Cell Manager during absences, including:
• Supervising the Cell Support Team
• Managing absence registration
• Approving leave
• Assigning work.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for achieving on-time delivery through:
• Efficient planning of personnel, equipment, and materials.
• Adjusting schedules when disruptions occur.
• Identifying problems and proposing solutions.
• Providing information and instructions to Cell Captains.
• Accurate data processing.

Competencies

• Planning and Organizing
• Decisiveness
• Communication
• Helicopter View (Big-picture thinking)
• Stability (Composure under pressure)

Preferred Qualifications

• Education: MBO+ level (vocational college or equivalent work and thinking level)
• Preferred field of study: Logistics
• Experience in production planning within a dynamic environment is an advantage.
• Additional requirements:
• Knowledge of ERP systems
• Experience with QRM (Quick Response Manufacturing) is an advantage
• Good command of both Dutch and English, spoken and written.