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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.\nKey ResponsibilitiesProduction and Project Planning\nReview customer orders project purchase releases technical requirements bills of materials (BOM) drawings and delivery milestones and clarify planning inputs with Projects and Engineering.\nPrepare maintain and communicate master production schedules along with rolling monthly weekly and daily plans for pipe insulation coating fabrication welding fittings and related operations.\nCreate and release ERP work orders routing sequences planned quantities material requests and job priorities and update work-order progress and completed quantities.\nAssess plant equipment labour shift welding and coating-line capacity identify bottlenecks and recommend realistic sequencing overtime or subcontracting.\nRun status meetings and coordinate with Production QA/QC and Logistics so that manufacturing completion lines up with inspection dispatch and site delivery dates.\nMaterial and Resource Coordination\nPrepare 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.\nWork with Procurement and Stores on stock availability PO status incoming shipments shortages and allocation of material to work orders.\nCheck planned against actual raw-material usage in ERP (steel and chemicals) and flag abnormal consumption wastage and inventory discrepancies.\nManufacturing Execution Control\nPlan manufacturing stages including surface preparation blasting coating application and curing pipe and fitting prefabrication welding and dimensional checks and insulation and jacketing.\nMake sure plans account for approved drawings ITPs hold points testing rework and release requirements without bypassing QA/QC approvals.\nSequence special engineered components (bends spools field-joint materials) and customer-specific packaging or preservation needs.\nPrepare monthly production plans and performance targets based on raw-material availability and review welding capacity and manufacturing estimates for major consumables.\nMonitoring Reporting and Improvement\nReport plan-versus-actual output schedule variance backlog WIP and forecast completion dates.\nProduce weekly and monthly performance indices and dashboards covering schedule adherence capacity utilisation on-time completion and material shortages.\nAnalyse delays and constraints start recovery plans and escalate risks to customer delivery.\nContribute to continuous-improvement efforts aimed at cutting waiting time rework excess inventory and cycle time.\nKeep planning records accurate and comply with ISO management systems HSE requirements and document control.\nKey AccountabilitiesProduction schedule adherence and on-time work-order completion\nOn-time readiness for committed project dispatch milestones\nAccuracy and timeliness of ERP production and planning reports\nMaterial availability and prompt escalation of shortages\nEffective capacity utilisation controlled WIP and fewer avoidable delays\nCompliance with quality HSE and planning procedures\nRequirementsEducation: Bachelors degree in Mechanical Industrial or Production Engineering (Mechanical preferred)\nExperience: 3 to 5 years ideally as a Planning Engineer in a manufacturing environment\nLanguages: Fluent English; 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