PRODUCTION PLANNER

Schlumberger • Mobile, AL

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About The Position

The Production Planner at Schlumberger is responsible for planning demand at a detailed level, managing inventory of raw materials, and establishing production schedules to meet customer requirements. This role involves utilizing SAP for production planning, ensuring material availability, and maintaining production order accuracy while coordinating with various teams to achieve on-time delivery and adherence to production plans.

Requirements

• Associate's degree in a relevant field.
• 2+ years of experience in production planning.
• Proficiency in SAP and Primavera.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in manufacturing environments.
• Knowledge of MRP systems.

Responsibilities

• Produce and maintain an integrated production plan considering resource and capacity constraints.
• Operate and control the MRP system to ensure supply and demand alignment for in-house builds.
• Establish predictability in SAP manufacturing planning data and dates.
• Raise production orders based on the slot plan and prepare production book/work pack.
• Work closely with the warehouse team to ensure on-time material issuance to the production floor.
• Maintain routings in SAP ensuring production orders are correct and aligned with the slot plan.
• Maintain progress of production orders in SAP and report any slippages affecting the overall production plan.
• Review and advise delivery dates for new and current orders after interfacing with relevant stakeholders.
• Prepare detailed planning activities in Primavera.
• Manage workload with realistic plans in SAP and assign scope to relevant work centers based on capacity.
• Perform look ahead evaluations and flag shortages to the Manufacturing Leads/Material Planner/Master Planner.
• Report potential major capacity constraints requiring management decision.
• Manage in-process sub-contractor activities in terms of prioritization and progress.
• Update and provide input to MOR report and project meetings (KPIs & PIs, workload, and capacity).
• Produce, analyze and advise on SAP-generated production reports as required.
• Action and coordinate engineering change notifications (OCM/YA) for in-house builds as per SAP workflow.
• Provide continual improvement of the production planning and reporting processes.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Support Activities for Mining
• Education Level: Associate degree