Junior Project Planner
Tillverkning och produktion · Produktion och montering · Produktionsledning
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Ansvarsområden
- 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.
Krav
- 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
Önskade kvalifikationer
- 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
Förmåner
- Interesting role in an international business environment
- Extraordinary products
- Great colleagues
- Opportunities for professional development
Färdigheter
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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Kempton Park, South Africa
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