Production Planning Engineer | alfanar Electric

Lead and optimize the production planning process. Responsible for ensuring efficient utilization of resources, minimizing lead times, and contributing to overall operational excellence. Aligning production schedules with organizational goals.

Comprehensive Planning:

• Lead strategic planning activities, organizing monthly, weekly, and daily planning to achieve production targets and meet delivery schedules.
• Coordinate with diverse customers' planning teams, ensuring seamless alignment and workflow.

Resourceful Material Management:

• Ensure the strategic availability of essential materials on the shop floor, optimizing workflow efficiency.
• Release in-house stock production orders for Press tool components, meticulously analyzing and addressing consumption or variance issues.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration:

• Spearhead collaborative efforts with various departments to identify and implement process improvement opportunities.
• Foster teamwork to enhance product quality assurance measures, leveraging cross-functional expertise.

Strategic Customer Communication:

• Engage with customers to elucidate design and product specifications, ensuring clarity and alignment.
• Solicit valuable feedback and input from customers to continually enhance the effectiveness of production processes.

Efficient Order Management:

• Oversee the release of in-house stock production orders, employing analytical insight to address consumption, time posting, and other variances.

Proactive Data Provision:

• Provide customers with comprehensive product Bill of Material (BOM) data, facilitating new BOM creation and routing.
• Update routing based on evolving process improvements, design changes, or time studies, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.

Effective Meeting Management:

• Lead and coordinate bi-weekly production meetings, daily production reviews, and monthly Operational Risk Management (ORM) meetings.
• Prepare senior-level reports, including monthly ORM reports, Monthly Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OTP) reports, and detailed analyses on material consumption and work center utilization.

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to obtain updated soft and technical skills related to the job
• To have a vision and a plan for the career path and how to achieve it.

Delivery:

• Perform the planned activities to meet the operational and development targets as per delivery schedules.
• Utilize resources effectively to achieve objectives within efficient cost and time.
• Provide a periodic report formatted by detailing the deviation and execution of planned tasks.

Problem-Solving:

• Solve any related problems arise and escalate any complex operational issues.

Quality:

• Ensure quality requirements to develop effective quality control and processes including specifications for products or processes or related activities.

Business Process Improvements:

• Coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.

Compliance:

• Comply to related policy and procedures and work instructions.

Health, Safety, and Environment:

• Ensure compliance of relevant safety, quality, and environmental management procedures and controls within defined area of work activity to guarantee safety, legislative compliance, and delivery of high-quality products/services.

Alfanar is a Saudi company with an international presence, primarily engaged in the manufacturing and trading of a wide variety of low, medium, and high voltage electrical products, in addition to its portfolio of conventional and renewable energy solutions, oil and gas, water treatment, infrastructure, technical services, and digital solutions.

The hub of alfanar’s manufacturing operations is Medinet alfanar Alsinaiya, a 700,000 square-meter complex located in Riyadh. The complex houses an array of ultra-modern manufacturing facilities and laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art technologies and staffed with highly skilled professionals.

alfanar derives its success from its commitment to providing the highest quality standards to its customers, and the continuous development of its human capital, who alfanar considers its most valuable asset. With this in mind, alfanar promotes a proactive work environment where its employees are always valued, nurtured, and empowered to fuel their pride in being part of alfanar.

For more information about alfanar, please visit alfanar.com