Material & Production Planning Engineer

Hitachi Energy Ltd.; Vadodara; On-site; INR 700,000 - 1,050,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Ltd. is seeking a focal point for material and operations planning in Vadodara. You will translate customer forecasts into yearly, monthly, and weekly material procurement and production plans, and collaborate with purchasing to ensure quality and on-time delivery.

You will monitor OTD performance and manage risks with proactive recovery actions. The role requires reviewing BOM accuracy, master data, and production order compliance to support efficient planning.

Qualifications

• Plan and manage material planning and production planning activities.
• Coordinate forecast with customer and translate into yearly, monthly, and weekly plans.
• Collaborate with purchasing on supplier quality, on-time delivery, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Should work as focal point of material planning and operation planning.
• Understand customer’s forecast and prepare yearly, monthly and weekly material procurement & production plan.
• Work with purchasing to communicate with suppliers on material quality, on-time deliveries, and overall performance.
• Monitor customer requested delivery dates and contractual on-time delivery (OTD) performance, proactively managing risks and recovery actions.
• Plans and maintains a material procurement process that establishes and achieves the least total cost, best quality and timely delivery for facility material purchases from internal/external suppliers
• Regular review of inventory parameters
• Analyze inventory reports to identify slow moving items, overstocked items, and obsolete inventory.
• Review BOM accuracy, planning parameters, material master data, and production order compliance to support efficient planning execution.
• Review long term forecast and make visible any sourcing decisions that might be needed
• Drives S&OP and S&OE with customer and internal stack holders.
• Perform all job functions with adherence to Hitachi's Values and Philosophy, Safety and Environmental Standards
• Work with purchasing to identify cost out opportunities related to outside purchased materials
• Work with Production to prepare day wise plan and execute.
• Prepare monthly and day to day dispatch plan and execute with Customer support team.
• Responsible for executing the end-to-end Material Master Process
• Demonstrated strong organizational skills with the ability to work well under pressure.

Skills

Material planning

Forecasting

Procurement

S&OP

S&OE

Supplier coordination

Job description

• Should work as Focal Point of material planning and Operation planning.
• Understand customer’s forecast and prepare Yearly, monthly and weekly, material procurement & production plan.
• Work with purchasing to communicate with suppliers on Material quality, on-time deliveries, and overall performance. (Supplier Evaluation)
• Monitor customer requested delivery dates and contractual on-time delivery (OTD) performance, proactively managing risks and recovery actions.
• Plans and maintains a material procurement process that establishes and achieves the least total cost, best quality and timely delivery for facility material purchases from internal/external suppliers
• Regular review of inventory parameters
• Analyze inventory reports to identify slow moving items, overstocked items, and obsolete inventory.
• Review BOM accuracy, planning parameters, material master data, and production order compliance to support efficient planning execution.
• Review long term forecast and make visible any sourcing decisions that might be needed
• Drives S&OP and S&OE with customer and internal stack holders.
• Perform all job functions with adherence to Hitachi's Values and Philosophy, Safety and Environmental Standards
• Work with purchasing to identify cost out opportunities related to outside purchased materials
• Work with Production to prepare day wise plan and execute.
• Prepare monthly and day to day dispatch plan and execute with Customer support team.
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• Responsible for executing the end-to-end Material Master Process
• Demonstrated strong organizational skills with the ability to work well under pressure.

We are a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission-critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world’s energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD.