Production Planner

The key objective for the person that takes up this position is to Create Schedules from estimating stage that are realistic in terms of delivery and available resources.

To ensure that the Vessel Shop is able to consistently deliver on time and within budget.

The position will also take on an expeditor role, chasing up suppliers/service providers as per the needs of the schedule.

We are looking for someone that has good energy, resilient, able to think out of the box, able to integrate well into a team and is passionate about producing high quality schedules.

Key Responsibilities:

• Producing detailed estimate schedules, comparing with estimators’ budget, and ensuring that the two are aligned before submitting tender
• Activating the schedule once contract is awarded and ensuring it as per build sequence.
• Resource load all schedules as per actual available resources to determine capacity and realistic deliveries, to be applied at tender stage as well
• Ensure progress of projects are kept up to date and actuals are captured
• Liaise on a continuous basis with Production Supervisor, Project Managers, Production Manager and Pre-Production Staff as to the required dates for relevant items
• Supply updates to Clients or Project Managers
• Expedite materials as per the schedule requirements

Requirements

• Beneficial to have proof of courses taken on the use of Primavera P6

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Experience:

• Must has at least 3 years of full-time experience as a production planner in an engineering manufacturing environment (preferably Pressure Vessel/Heat exchangers) using Primavera P6
• Must have a solid understanding of fundamentals of Primavera P6 (Load resources, Level Resources, Create Histograms, build-in “What ifs”, etc...)
• Beneficial to have good understanding of calculating actual times for tasks (time to weld a 50NB Nozzle to shell, etc…)