Junior Project Planner

Manufacturing & Production · Production & Assembly · Production Management

In short

Rock Processing is looking for a motivated Junior Project Planner for a 12-month experiential learning programme to support production planning and coordination. The role involves aligning customer requirements with workshop capacity, materials, and resources within a manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain production plans based on customer requirements, delivery dates, available capacity, and manufacturing lead times.
Schedule jobs across fabrication, machining, assembly, welding, testing, and other workshop activities to optimize workflow and meet delivery commitments.
Monitor labor, machines, equipment, and workshop capacity against workload, identifying overloads or under-utilization.
Confirm availability of materials, components, drawings, and consumables before work is released, highlighting potential shortages.
Release production orders to the workshop only when required information, materials, and resources are sufficiently available.
Establish daily and weekly priorities based on customer delivery dates, project requirements, bottlenecks, and business priorities.
Track actual production progress against the schedule and identify delays, work-in-progress accumulation, and potential delivery risks.
Support recovery plans when production falls behind schedule, including resequencing work, overtime, additional resources, or subcontracting.
Monitor work-in-progress and ensure jobs move efficiently through the manufacturing process.
Work with various departments to remove constraints affecting production.
Prepare reports on workshop loading, available capacity, utilization, backlog, and upcoming workload.
Monitor performance against required handover and customer delivery dates, escalating risks.
Maintain accurate production orders, routings, hours, dates, priorities, work centers, and completion information in the ERP system.
Identify production bottlenecks and coordinate corrective actions.
Analyze planning and production performance and recommend improvements.

Requirements

Grade 12 (Matric)
Completed Diploma or Degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline
Recent graduate seeking 12 months of structured experiential learning in manufacturing project planning
Strong analytical, planning, organizational, and problem-solving ability
Ability to communicate effectively and coordinate across multiple functions in a deadline-driven environment
Must be a South African citizen
Attach a CV, certified qualifications, and academic transcript or statement of results

Desired Qualifications

Power BI
Advanced Microsoft Project skills
Strong Microsoft Excel skills
Project scheduling, production planning and capacity planning
Schedule forecasting and progress measurement
S-curve and histogram development
ERP/MRP system knowledge; SYSPRO exposure will be advantageous
Ability to interpret engineering drawings and bills of materials
Understanding of manufacturing processes, workflows and project management principles

Benefits

Interesting role in an international business environment
Extraordinary products
Great colleagues
Opportunities for professional development

Skills

Power BIMicrosoft ProjectMicrosoft ExcelProject schedulingProduction planningCapacity planningERPMRPSYSPROEngineering drawingsBills of materialsManufacturing processesProject management

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About Sandvik

Sandvik is a global, high-tech engineering group providing solutions that enhance productivity, profitability and sustainability for the manufacturing, mining and infrastructure industries. We are at the forefront of digitalization and focus on optimizing our customers’ processes. Our world-leading offering includes equipment, tools, services and digital solutions for machining, mining, rock excavation and rock processing. In 2024, the Sandvik Group had approximately 41,000 employees, sales in more than 150 countries and revenues of about SEK 123 billion.

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