Production Planning Engineer

Tawzef for Recruitment & HR Consultancy; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Production Planner based in Abu Dhabi. The role involves analyzing production processes, creating schedules, and ensuring compliance with quality standards. Required qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering and 7-9 years of experience in furniture manufacturing. Strong organizational skills and familiarity with mass production are essential. The position offers competitive compensation and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• 7-9 years’ experience in Furniture and wood manufacturing as a production planner.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills.
• Familiarity with Mass production concept and able to run many projects simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Study project shop drawings and provide product breakdown.
• Review and calculate cycle time for production operations.
• Create and manage monthly production schedules.

Skills

Organizational skills

Time-management skills

Familiarity with Mass production

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Industrial engineering

Professional certification (e.g., APICS CPIM, Lean Six Sigma)

Job description

Job Description

• Study project Shop drawing with details and provide product breakdown and sub product required.
• Review all production operations and workstations in production departments.
• Calculate cycle time for each item and sub item.
• Evaluate the time and motion study for each process.
• Assigning the recourse (Machine, Man, Material...) to get the standard operation.
• Create production rout for each product.
• Coordinating with maintenance department to implement preventive maintenance and critical maintenance and reflect it in production schedule.
• Analyzing Master production schedule(MPS) and Coordinate with MRP department
• Create, Modify and mange monthly, weekly production schedule.
• Providing status and updates to the Management in a timely manner and expected delivery date.
• Closely monitoring the production process to ensure that production orders completed at time and within budget.
• Effecting changes to production schedules to ensure that production deadlines are met.
• Promptly informing the relevant departments of changes to current production schedule.
• Recommending viable solution to reduce production operation time and cost as well as improve production process and product quality.
• Promptly addressing and resolving production issues to minimize delays in production..
• Provide Overall Equipment effectiveness (OEE) report and Managing production plan on ERP system.
• Implement and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for production planning efficiency (e.g., on-time delivery, production adherence).
• Develop capacity planning and forecasting to anticipate future resource requirements and Contribute to risk assessments
• Coordinate with quality control / QA to ensure compliance with product specifications and standards.
• Plan and control inventory levels (raw material, WIP, finished goods) to balance availability.
• Maintain detailed production records and ensure data accuracy in ERP and related systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial engineering, Production engineering, supply chain management.
• Professional certification such as APICS CPIM / Lean Six Sigma Green Belt / PMP (Preferred).
• 7-9 Years’ experience in Furniture and wood manufacturing as a production planning.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills.
• Familiarity with Mass production concept and able to run many project inthesametime.