Production Planning Specialist

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we'll give you what you need to make it happen. It won't always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you'll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

This Position reports to:

In this role, you will have the opportunity to generate constrained engineering and production plan, material plan, and Work-In-Progress (WIP) inventory rationalization, including Sales in Excess (SIE) of invoicing to improve service levels.

Each day, you will assemble and analyze all data pertinent to creating constrained engineering (for Engineered-To-Order businesses) and production plan, use rough-cut and detailed capacity planning, and link it to the demand plan. You will also showcase your expertise by optimizing working capital.

The work model for the role is: hybrid

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Creation of short- and medium-term production plans for FG/semi-FG
• Supervising and reporting on the execution of the production plan
• Organisation of shipments and supervision of shipping documentation
• Close cooperation with other areas, in particular production, purchasing and customer service
• Active participation in the planning of development tools/processes in accordance with the Lean approach
• Comprehensive order processing

Qualifications for the role

• University degree, preferably with a technical profile
• Min. 2-3 years of work experience in a similar position, in the Production Planning department
• Knowledge of SAP (PP, MM, SD module) would be an advantage
• Experience in implementing Lean philosophy in the production planning area
• Knowledge of planning strategies (MTO, MTS, ATO)
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of MS Excel
• Communicative knowledge of the English language (spoken and written)
• Highly developed analytical skills. Ability to work under time pressure and to complete tasks in a timely and accurate manner. Communication skills and the ability to work in a team

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