Job Description

Production Planner Luxury Yachts
Develop a master production schedule integrating jobs, resources, and materials for luxury yacht builds.
Cape Town

About Our Client
The company is a luxury yacht manufacturer involved in high-performance builds. The business operates within the yacht building industry, focusing on technical production processes including lamination, infusion, and curing.

The Role: Production Planner Luxury Yachts
The role exists to integrate data and building blocks into a single, real-time source of truth to harmonise builds, labour hours, materials, and technical information. It contributes to the business by ensuring world-class yachts are delivered with precision through the integration of strategic timelines and daily tactical execution. The main focus areas include master production scheduling, resource optimisation, and bridging the gap between the planning office and the production team.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a master production schedule that integrates jobs, resources, materials, and real-time shop floor feedback.
• Utilise existing data sets to create a single source of truth for strategic 2-year timelines and daily tactical execution.
• Monitor and manage artisan hours and resource allocation to ensure workshop efficiency.
• Transform raw production data, such as lamination sequences and infusion, into actionable insights for management.
• Act as the technical translator between the planning office and the production team to ensure alignment on milestones.
• Pivot from high-level strategic planning to boots on the ground tactical troubleshooting.

About You

• Proven track record in Yacht Building or Shipbuilding, or deep experience in high-spec composite environments within the Aerospace or Aircraft sectors.
• Expert-level proficiency in MS Project and ERP/MRP systems.
• Fundamental understanding of curing, infusion, and lamination sequences inherent in high-performance builds.
• Possession of data architect skills to build systems that harvest data.
• Resilience to handle a 12-18 month ramp-up time to master build nuances.
• Precision focused on high-spec, low-margin-for-error luxury manufacturing.