Production Planning Supervisor/ Manager

Prattwhitney; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Prattwhitney in Singapore is seeking an experienced production planning manager to lead a team of planners. The role involves creating and managing master schedules, driving cross-functional meetings, and ensuring inventory targets are met.

Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree in Business, SCM, or Engineering, along with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience in production planning. This position offers the chance to implement strategies and lead continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years relevant experience in production planning or related field.
• Understanding of work scheduling and prioritization processes.
• Experience in implementing continuous improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of production planners to meet targets.
• Drive cross-functional meetings to mitigate supply gaps.
• Create and review master schedules for production planning.

Skills

Leadership and team management

Order fulfilment processes

Capacity planning

Production scheduling

Continuous improvement efforts

Statistical analysis

Education

Bachelor Degree in Business, SCM or Engineering

Job description

What You Will Do

• Lead, coach and manage a small team of production planners to meet delivery, inventory and cost targets
• Drive regular cross-functional order fulfilment meetings within plant to mitigate supply gaps to meet customer request dates
• Create master schedules that analyzes material and capacity requirements constraints and can be used for detailed capacity planning as well as financial planning.
• Review weekly master schedules for released and firm planned orders and compare those to the production plan to ensure adherence of master schedule
• Monitor and adjust MPS planning loads within the planning time fence where any changes made have the potential to disrupt actual work being conducted.
• Ensure upstream & downstream activities are not disrupted due to changes made to the production schedule that would otherwise interrupt scheduled execution activities
• Maintains line capacity planning model to efficiently utilize manufacturing resources and identify excess or capacity gaps in the current plan for resolution as constraint input to S&OP process to develop consensus forecast
• Develops and implements production build and material forecasting strategies to support Manufacturing Operations and meet customer demand while optimizing inventories
• Perform 80/20 analysis using ABCXYZ and other Collins methods.
• Perform PFEP and determine safety stock levels along with economical build quantities
• Maintain planned scheduling parameters and data integrity such as lead times, lot sizes, safety stocks, delivery times, and material master and reference data for all master scheduled items, includes creation and maintenance of Bills of Material
• Support NPI and Engineering Change Order from master data facilitation and planning
• Identify and lead continuous improvement efforts to streamline processes and procedures to remove non-value added effort in the master scheduling process

Qualifications You Must Have

• Bachelor Degree in Business, SCM or Engineering
• Understand basic management approaches such as work scheduling, prioritizing, coaching and process execution. Typically requires specialized knowledge of technical or operational practices.
• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years experience
• Engineering/Other Technical Positions: Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.