Production Planning Coordinator

Role Overview

You will take ownership of the entire planning loop, converting demand forecasts and confirmed customer orders into production schedules that respect real-world constraints on machinery, labor, and materials. This is a hands-on coordination function: you will spend your days aligning production supervisors, procurement teams, and warehouse staff around one shared plan, and adjusting that plan whenever new orders, breakdowns, or supply delays shift the balance. The business is expanding and diversifying its product range, so your job is to keep that complexity manageable and ensure every production hour and every stock unit earns its place.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a master production schedule that sequences work orders based on delivery deadlines, equipment capability, and material availability.
• Regularly reconcile sales-demand updates from commercial teams against current manufacturing capacity, then publish an updated, achievable plan.
• Identify production bottlenecks and near-term constraints, working with maintenance and production leads to minimize downtime and keep throughput steady.
• Monitor raw-material and component inventory levels to guarantee availability for upcoming production slots, while flagging slow-moving or excess stock for corrective action.
• Act as the central link between procurement, warehousing, and production, ensuring planning information stays current and that everyone is working from the same version of the truth.
• Facilitate weekly scheduling meetings where cross-functional teams review the plan, resolve conflicts, and commit to firm production targets.
• Track delivery performance, capacity utilization, and inventory effectiveness, then report variances and improvement recommendations to leadership.
• Maintain planning parameters inside the ERP/SAP system, including lead times, lot sizes, and safety stock settings, so system-generated suggestions stay reliable.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business administration, statistics, or an adjacent field.
• 3–5 years of hands-on production planning, inventory planning, or supply chain operations experience inside a manufacturing environment.
• Proven experience using ERP or SAP systems to run material requirements planning (MRP) and production scheduling.
• Strong capacity-analysis skills, with the ability to recognize utilization gaps and propose rebalancing actions.
• Comfort working across departments—production, procurement, finance, and IT—and keeping diverse stakeholders moving in the same direction.
• High attention to detail plus the resilience to manage multiple urgent, competing priorities without losing sight of the overall plan.
• Preferred: experience in vertically integrated textile manufacturing or similar cost- and customer-driven production environments.
• Preferred: familiarity with lean manufacturing, theory of constraints, or other resource-optimization methodologies.