Planning Engineer- Abu Dhabi

Industry: Pre-insulated & Coated Piping Systems Manufacturing
Location:Abu Dhabi
Reports to: Operations / Planning Manager

Our client an established international Engineering systems is looking for a Planning Engineer to drive production and project planning across its manufacturing operations. The role sits between Projects Engineering Production Procurement QA/QC and Logistics making sure orders are produced on schedule materials are where they need to be and committed delivery dates are met.

Production and Project Planning

• Review customer orders project purchase releases technical requirements bills of materials (BOM) drawings and delivery milestones and clarify planning inputs with Projects and Engineering.
• Prepare maintain and communicate master production schedules along with rolling monthly weekly and daily plans for pipe insulation coating fabrication welding fittings and related operations.
• Create and release ERP work orders routing sequences planned quantities material requests and job priorities and update work-order progress and completed quantities.
• Assess plant equipment labour shift welding and coating-line capacity identify bottlenecks and recommend realistic sequencing overtime or subcontracting.
• Run status meetings and coordinate with Production QA/QC and Logistics so that manufacturing completion lines up with inspection dispatch and site delivery dates.

Material and Resource Coordination

• Prepare material requirements and purchase requisitions for steel pipes and fittings insulation chemicals jackets/casings coating consumables field-joint kits leak-detection cables and project-specific items.
• Work with Procurement and Stores on stock availability PO status incoming shipments shortages and allocation of material to work orders.
• Check planned against actual raw-material usage in ERP (steel and chemicals) and flag abnormal consumption wastage and inventory discrepancies.

Manufacturing Execution Control

• Plan manufacturing stages including surface preparation blasting coating application and curing pipe and fitting prefabrication welding and dimensional checks and insulation and jacketing.
• Make sure plans account for approved drawings ITPs hold points testing rework and release requirements without bypassing QA/QC approvals.
• Sequence special engineered components (bends spools field-joint materials) and customer-specific packaging or preservation needs.
• Prepare monthly production plans and performance targets based on raw-material availability and review welding capacity and manufacturing estimates for major consumables.

Monitoring Reporting and Improvement

• Report plan-versus-actual output schedule variance backlog WIP and forecast completion dates.
• Produce weekly and monthly performance indices and dashboards covering schedule adherence capacity utilisation on-time completion and material shortages.
• Analyse delays and constraints start recovery plans and escalate risks to customer delivery.
• Contribute to continuous-improvement efforts aimed at cutting waiting time rework excess inventory and cycle time.
• Keep planning records accurate and comply with ISO management systems HSE requirements and document control.

• Production schedule adherence and on-time work-order completion
• On-time readiness for committed project dispatch milestones
• Accuracy and timeliness of ERP production and planning reports
• Material availability and prompt escalation of shortages
• Effective capacity utilisation controlled WIP and fewer avoidable delays
• Compliance with quality HSE and planning procedures

• Education: Bachelors degree in Mechanical Industrial or Production Engineering (Mechanical preferred)
• Experience: 3 to 5 years ideally as a Planning Engineer in a manufacturing environment
• Languages: Fluent English; the regional language of the work location is an advantage
• Technical: Able to read engineering drawings
• Software: MS Office (Excel PowerPoint Word Outlook Project) AutoCAD project management tools
• Advantageous: Training in production planning ERP/MRP Lean manufacturing project controls or Primavera/MS Project
• Driving licence: Required