Production Line Planner

Regency Park, South Australia

 We are looking for a Production Line Planner to join our team in Regency Park, South Australia. In this role, you are responsible for ensuring the effective planning of the Australian and New Zealand assembly areas of pumps and systems across multiple assembly areas, including the execution of all associated customer orders efficiently.

What is the Job all about?

 This role involves planning, demonstrating the ability to manage high volume products, custom designed products, and integrated projects. The role will also be responsible for supporting both the supply chain and production teams to ensure a high level of delivery service to our customers.

Project-based orders are specifically in scope, working closely with the Project Manager to ship larger system-builds as first confirmed.

This role will be directly reporting to the Supply Chain Manager and will be based in Regency Park, South Australia.

Your main responsibilities:

• Achievement of agreed Planning objectives and targets.
• Input and maintain customer orders in SAP from the Local Factory Product Variance database ensuring correctness of part number, description, price, customer, order number, delivery details, technical specifications and project contractual requirements.
• Schedule production orders using material requirements (MRP) and just-in-time.
• Investigate supply alternatives or modifications to improve lead times of components where standard processes are not able to meet required customer request dates.
• Monitor missing parts and initiate expediting process for successful resolution to minimize delays.
• Raise purchase orders relating to local contractors for coating, motor rewinds and other services.
• Provide support for project sales orders and ensure stakeholders are updated with status reports.
• Report, investigate and resolve discrepancies in SAP resulting from planning processes.
• Monitor cancelled customer orders.
• Organize product strip for custom builds.
• Provide training and share knowledge to ensure improved cross functional competencies within the team.
• Take a continuous improvement approach to daily duties by identifying opportunities for improved efficiency, quality and delivery performance.
• General assistance of Planning Team members where required.
• Any other reasonable duties as requested, commensurate with the position.

  Your background:

• Supply Chain/Material/Project/Operations or Production management, or other trade qualification
• Experience in Manufacturing or an Engineered Product preferred environment.
• Experience in coordination of production demand planning and scheduling
• Ability to be proactive, think on your feet and manage multiple tasks within deadline
• High level interpersonal, liaison, written and oral communication
• Well-developed time management skills including setting priorities, objectives, strategies and deployment of action plans
• Proficient level of computer skills including Microsoft Suite and SAP with experience preferably with a key focus in the production supply chain process

What’s in it for you?

Whether it’s developing leadership skills or advancing your expertise even further, we’ll support you with continuous learning and development opportunities, to help discuss and steer your long-term Grundfos career path. You’ll be welcomed from day one into an inclusive, trusting environment guided by our  core values.

 Development opportunities in an international environment

• People- and value-focused organization culture
• Social- team and sport events
• Training opportunities

Do you want to learn more?

If this job sounds appealing, please send your resume and cover letter by clicking “Apply”.

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