Pipe and Mechanical Planner

Birdon America, Inc.•Bayou la Batre, AL

21h•Onsite

About The Position

The Planner – Pipe will be responsible for the definition, development, and through-build support of the Production Work Packages. Applying extensive craft knowledge and experience to break down and sequence the engineering design within the 3D model and scheduling software. Define work requirements including budget, logic, task notes and resource, establishing interfaces in accordance with the build strategy, completions and test and commissioning. The role demands strong communication and engagement skills, interacting with Engineering, Production, Test and Commissioning throughout the process. Facilitating formal stakeholder reviews of the plan intent and schedule at PreBuild Reviews, and Plan of the Week. The output is a highly detailed, quality production work package with clear instructions and requirements, this to enable Production to complete the work safe, on cost and schedule. Then supporting throughout the build cycle problem solving and ensuring working on plan and risk identified.

Requirements

Extensive knowledge and experience of pipe and mechanical installation in a construction environment (shipbuilding preferred)
Experience in planning and scheduling – defining packages of work.
Strong MS Office Skills
Ability to work independently and collectively with the Program Team
Experience in shipbuilding.
Experience with P6, Business Central

Responsibilities

Support the material planning processes and procedures to support the build of the WCC Program.
Ability to work as independent material planner for WCC Program working closely with the Scheduling, Detail Planning, Supply Chain and Material Control functions.
Ability to review, and process Engineering Build of Material (BoM) data, developing and maturing material BoMs and requisitions in Business Central ERP.
Perform material reconciliation of Advance Build of Material (ABoM) and the final Manufacturing Build of Material (MBoM) to ensure correct demand quality.
Manage Electrical stock holding, transfers, and return to stock processing within Business Central ERP.
Able to effectively communicate lead times, forecast dates and material risk for production work packages.
Proactive in problem solving working with wider business in finding solutions for material not supporting required in yard dates, presenting solutions and mitigations.
Work closely with Material Control for laydown capacity analysis and throughput.
Have significant experience in optimum material call off strategies and management of laydown areas to prevent stale material and over/under call off to demand.
Ability to produce and present metrics and reports such as material availability % on production activities, lead time analysis impact, and material inventory and delivery times.
Generate and hold Material Plan of the Week meeting with stakeholders, discuss work pack material discrepancies and risk.
Identify, develop and manage demand for Min/Max and VMI registers for consumables, fasteners and fixing and common items.
Ability to Operate 3D Model Assembly Planner for Work Package definition, sequencing, and BoM enrichment.
Apply and develop estimates and norms to ensure work packages are budgeted to industry standards.
Define, mature and attribute schedules in the scheduling software.
Work closely with the Master Scheduler to ensure optimum resource loading and work center capacity conformance.
Create and manage BoM requisitions in ERP.
Present schedules and plan intent in Production Pre-Build Reviews.
Develop production work packages in PDF format, populated with all the information production require to start and finish work safely and successfully – demonstrating attention to detail and right first time quality.
Setup of job cost structure in ERP.
Optimum change management and integration.
Ensure learning from experience is captured and implemented for continuous improvement on future vessels.
Managed Productions work execution.
Generate and support schedule look ahead (12 Week and 4 Weeks), communicate the plan intent for planned hours, resource, and tooling requirements.
Support work package and material staging.
Resolving planning issues in the field, demonstrating creativity to be adaptable to keep progressing the build while working for solutions.
Driving completion of Work in Progress, progress capture and accurate charging.
Create and develop KPIs for monitoring production performance, highlighting risk and areas for improvement.