Senior Planning Engineer

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