Senior Supply Chain Planning

Description

Vadodara MPS is manufacturing FHT and LPT equipment with capacity of ~300 k production hours SC Planning team is supporting production by providing monthly plan and milestone schedule. This scheduling is not sufficient, and we are not able to track the complete production process. Production team need support for activity level scheduling for equipment manufacturing. This will help them to measure real time progress and identify process bottlenecks. This job will be done by Production Schedulers – one for FHT business and one for LPT business.

About GEA

• GEA is one of the largest suppliers for the food and beverage processing industry and a wide range of other process industries. Approximately 18,000 employees in more than 60 countries contribute significantly to GEA’s success – come and join them! We offer interesting and challenging tasks, a positive working environment in international teams and opportunities for personal development and growth in a global company.

• Why join GEA

• GEA is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will therefore receive consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, race, color, religion, world view, national origin, genetics, disability, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other protected characteristic required by applicable law. Applicants with disabilities are welcome and will be given special consideration if they are equally qualified.

Your profile and qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Mechanical/Fabrication/Production Engineering with 5 to 8 years of experience preferably in production planning in fabrication industries.

• Broad knowledge and understanding of production planning and materials management in project driven make to order manufacturing environment.

• Working knowledge of project planning software MS Project and SAP PP, PS & MM Modules.

• Should be familiar with operational excellence tools like Lean, 5S, Gemba, Kaizen and ISO 9001, 14001 & 45001.

• Should have the ability to manage assigned projects / tasks independently.

• Positive mindset, quick learner, team player and customer centric approach.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Strong communication skills in English.

Your responsibilities and tasks

• Responsible for production planning and materials management with an aim to meet customer delivery schedule with optimum lead-time, inventory and utilization of workshop capacity.

• Define project schedule according to established manufacturing sequence and lead time.

• Periodic progress review, monitoring, tracking and updating projects progress as per plan. Proactively identify schedule and cost variations and take necessary actions.

• Organize and manage review meetings with internal stakeholders, group customers and manage correspondence.

• Identifying and resolving issues that arise during the project lifecycle.

• Monitor and align availability of inputs (drawing & materials) as per workshop loading plan.

• Advance planning and procurement of long-lead items to meet customer delivery schedule.

• Sub-contracting planning and procurement as per delivery schedule.

• Study build package/drawing set and define procurement strategy for all materials and accordingly define the material master in SAP.

• Study build package/drawing set and create multi-level manufacturing bill of material (BOM) in SAP according to procurement strategy and manufacturing sequence.

• Create Project, WBS structure and generate demands in SAP. Do material requirement planning (MRP) and generate purchase requisitions and planned orders. Release production orders for in-house manufacturing items.

• Allocation of available materials to project and utilization of inventory.

• Manage revision of build package and accordingly update the schedule, BOM, production orders and timely communicate to all stakeholders.

• Establish and monitor SAP parameters including safety stock and maintain optimum inventory of raw material and long lead items to achieve customer delivery requirements.

• Co-ordination with cross functions for smooth execution of assigned projects.

• Packing and dispatch planning and preparation of related documents.

• Contribute to various organization initiatives related to Lean, 5S, GEMBA, Kaizen, SOC, ISO, Digitalization, New Product Development, Lead Time Reduction etc.

• Maintain trustworthy relationships with all stakeholders and group customers.

• Experience and knowledge of SS equipment fabrication for Dairy, Pharma and Food applications.