Production Planner-Iksan

About the Position

Production Planner-Iksan

Iksan-si, Jeollabuk-do, Korea, republic of

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About Veolia

Veolia group aims to be the benchmark company for ecological transformation. In 2022, with nearly 220,000 employees worldwide, the Group designs and provides game-changing solutions that are both useful and practical for water, waste and energy management. Through its three complementary business activities, Veolia helps to develop access to resources, preserve available resources, and replenish them. In 2021, the Veolia group supplied 79 million people with drinking water and 61 million people with wastewater service, produced nearly 48 million megawatt hours of energy and treated 48 million metric tons of waste.

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Responsibilities

The Production Planner coordinates, plans and manages the production schedule for the Suez Water Technologies & Solutions manufacturing facility or toller, and develops initiatives to improve inventory levels, minimise scrap/waste and slow moving non-moving materials.

• Investigate and develop new avenues to achieve optimum production and throughput
• Accurately monitor and maintain production schedules to satisfy customer orders and forecasts
• Coordinate with the Commercial team to maintain a strong demand planning rigor
• Manage planning performance by addressing day-to-day issues and adjust operations to meet changing demands

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Core Duties

Production Control

• Monitor & review production plan/progress against deadline targets to ensure on time delivery.
• Adjust the production schedule as required and communicate any change to delivery date with the PSI, commercial team, and customer service accordingly.
• Ensure that all production related activity is value added & cost effective.
• Be capable of translating the production plan into a time-phased planning schedule.
• Implement the most cost effective bills of material (BOM’s) are used as part of the production of finished goods.
• Utilise supply chain methodologies to ensure accurate and timely production order generation.
• Understand the role of managing stock in SAP and manage schedule changes through the SAP.

Demand Management and Forecasting

• Understand the principles and applications of demand forecasting.
• Have knowledge of the critical requirements for effective forecasting: establishing time horizons, determining the level of forecasting detail, and determining the forecastable database.
• Be capable of establishing a close relationship with the commercial team to ensure forecast accuracy.
• Be able to apply various methods to work with random, seasonal, trend, and cyclical impacts.
• Establish key performance indicators of forecast accuracy.
• Ensure the interaction with the PSI and commercial team, and track and maintain the forecast through timely and accurate feedback.

Capacity Management

• Understand capacity management relationship to MRP.
• Establish, measure, monitor, and adjust capacity levels to execute all production schedules.
• Determine available capacity before planned Purchase Rec’s and PO’s are released.
• Engage in capacity management during sales and operations planning, production scheduling, materials requirements and planning.

Inventory Levels

• Maintain inventory at Op Plan target levels.
• Project inventory levels on a quarterly basis and achieve desired inventory turn targets.
• Manage all SMNM targets and ensure these are reviewed with the commercial team to avoid obsolesces.
• Monitor inventories, RM shortages in relation to all planned orders for the Value Stream and work with sourcing to coordinate deliveries of required components or Raw materials.

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Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Industrial or Chemical Engineering, other Engineering or Business.
• Minimum 5 years of SCM experience, preferably currently having the same role in a manufacturing company.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and presentation skills, e.g. facilitating team meetings and engaging groups to achieve outcomes.
• Strong interpersonal skills; Conflict resolution skills, understanding of impact of self on others, Influencing skills.
• Ability to incorporate multiple points of view and synthesize into singular plans of actions.
• Strong operational experience with the ability to establish and measure KPI’s.
• Proven analytical, evaluative and problem-solving abilities, with a keen attention to detail.
• Financial acumen.
• Experience in managing continuous improvement projects.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Proficient in ERP systems and Microsoft Office.
• Knowledge of SAP and MS Office software (Excel, Powerpoint etc.).
• CPIM or CSP.

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We Offer

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.