This is a full-time, site-based role. The base location for this role will be our manufacturing facility in Dundalk or Stamullen. Occasional visits to other facilities or USA may be required.
Key Responsibilities:
- Production Planning & Scheduling:
- Lead the development and maintenance of the Master Production Schedule (MPS) in line with the S&OP plan, customer demand and project delivery dates for all manufacturing plants for Hanley Energy across the globe.
- Own the weekly and monthly production plans.
- Manage schedule changes, prioritisation and expediting in response to demand changes, material shortages or capacity constraints.
- Manage pull in and push out requests from customer and amend production plan accordingly.
- Capacity Planning & Analysis:
- Develop and maintain short, medium and long-term capacity models covering labour, equipment, floor space and shift patterns for manufacturing.
- Lead short- and long-term resource planning for production and engineering.
- Provide capacity impact assessments for new product introductions (NPI), new projects and site expansion plans.
- Run case-based scenarios and sales query on resource planning models to provide best possible delivery plan.
- Align capacity required for future projects between Engineering and Technical Sales team.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Act as the key link between S&OP, Production, Material Planning, Engineering, Quality and Warehouse teams to ensure synchronised execution and on-time delivery.
- Chair the monthly production and capacity planning meeting and issue the agreed build schedule and capacity outlook to stakeholders.
- Provide capacity input to the monthly S&OP cycle and escalate risks to customer delivery commitments.
- Systems, KPIs & Continuous Improvement:
- Own production planning master data in SAP, including routings, work centres, planned lead times and capacity settings.
- Track and report key KPIs such as schedule adherence, OTIF, capacity utilisation, WIP and manufacturing lead time.
- Manage production and capacity planning data across various platforms like SAP, Salesforce, Power BI, Smartsheet and Excel.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Production/Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in production planning, capacity planning or supply planning in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong working knowledge of MPS, MRP, RCCP and S&OP processes.
- Proven experience building capacity models and turning data into practical, achievable plans.
- Experience with ERP systems. SAP HANA an advantage.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and data analysis tools.
- Strong leadership, communication and stakeholder management abilities.
Ability to manage competing priorities in a dynamic, make-to-order or engineer-to-order production environment.
Work Location: Dundalk
