Production Planner Job at Associated Vehicle Assemblers Limited

  • Published date: July 6, 2022
  • Category: Management & Business Development
    • Location: Nairobi, Nairobi
  • Jop type:
  • Salary: Ksh Not mentioned
  • Company name: Jobs in Kenya

Job Description


Primary Responsibilities:



  • Manages all planning inputs: sales orders, dealer forecasts, on-line projects and strategic build plans

  • Collaborate with production engineers to ensure optimum productivity and timely completion of orders

  • Create and implement integrated systems for carrying out production processes, such as quality and inventory control, human work factors, and cost analysis; logistics and material flow, and production coordination

  • Supervise and coordinate engineering process improvement with production

  • Support the resolution of issues such as kit deliveries, shortages, material stockouts; internal and external purchase orders and production delays that may influence on-time, in-full delivery

  • Cultivate systems that guarantee that production schedules align with Customer requirements

  • Maintain target HPU data and establish regular review mechanisms; providing initiatives for continuous production improvement

  • Create and deliver production status metrics to help with effective decision-making

  • Manages the planning function and the planning interface with customers and internal departments

  • Maintains consolidated sales forecasts in the MRP system and prepares Master Production Schedule and a Capacity Plan for the business

  • Generates requisitions to buy materials based on Production Schedule, Forecast and MRP System

  • Prepares and distributes weekly production schedules / work order dispatch lists

  • Monitors daily schedule status and communicates scheduling problems or concerns to Management

  • Participates in, or leads in the absence of the Assembly Manager, the daily production meetings on the shop floor

  • Assist management to resolve problems with late shipments, material shortages, customer schedule changes, and cancellations of customer orders

  • Proposes, gains approval for, and leads implementation of improved planning methods, tools, and reports

  • Prepares production reports including analysis of Performance to Plan variances and loss & Waste reports

  • Perform any other duty given to you by your superiors


Qualifications and Experience:



  • Bachelors degree or equivalent in business administration, supply chain management, or operations management.

  • 5 years’ experience in planning and scheduling a manufacturing facility

  • Fluency and proficiency in the practical application of MRP logic, scheduling logic, order policies, capacity planning, input/output control, product structures, routings, and standards maintenance.

  • Knowledgeable in master scheduling, production planning and detailed scheduling, demand management, purchasing, and cost accounting techniques

  • Experience with inventory management.



 

Method of Application


Interested and qualified? Go to Associated Vehicle Assemblers Limited on www.linkedin.com to apply

 

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