Production Planner - Shatterprufe Neave

Shatterprufe® is the leading manufacturer and distributor of OE Auto and aftermarket replacement glass products. The company manufactures genuine Shatterprufe® laminated windscreens and Armourplate® toughened automotive safety glass products. Three automotive glass plants manufacture over 4 million pieces of laminated and toughened glass a year for customers worldwide. Shatterprufe® products are installed by Original Motor manufacturers in Southern Africa.

Main job purpose

• Responsible for production planning and scheduling to ensure the smooth flow of product throughout the Plant, taking bottlenecks and constraints into account and to ensure good planning, to maximise machine utilisation whilst maintaining target WIP levels for each station, ensuring customer requirements are met.

Main Objective

• Responsible for daily demand planning (Export, ARG and OE) to ensure that demands for Site are aligned with customer releases, by raising and addressing any disparities.   
• Plan and schedule all production work centres and resources according to capacity and constraints identified, to produce glass products in an optimal and cost effective manner in line with targeted Production WIP.
• Ensure that raw glass is launched into the Plant to service the market mix and maintain the ratio throughout the Plant so as to meet target volumes and improve SX business performance. 
• Check and monitor open production orders to ensure system integrity by highlighting and escalating any anomalies in the system to reduce risks to delivery performance and financial costs to the business.   
• Communication of production plan to plant on a daily basis to ensure that urgent parts are prioritized and conformance to plan is met.   
• Monitor backlog figures on a weekly basis for all SX markets to ensure that parts are planned to meet order fills and to reduce impact on delivery performance by maintaining Finished Goods stock holding to eliminate risk. 
• To ensure staff are effectively managed and held accountable through performance and disciplinary procedures, and that staff are developed and mentored through the talent management and IDP processes to drive capability in business.
• Ensure effective communication of relevant information to all stakeholders to support decision making for the business.

Critical job requirements

• Grade 12
• Diploma in Logistics / Industrial Engineering / Production Management
• 3 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment which would include some exposure to implementing supply chain, production or process improvement initiatives. 
• 3 years’ experience in a planning role at Plant level within the automotive industry     

Knowledge 

• Knowledge of Theory of Constraints      
• Good understanding of lean management principles
• Root cause analysis

Skills

• SAP / APO   
• Excel
• Planning skills        
• Good conceptual reasoning skills (able to think abstractly)
• Ability to think at both a systemic as well as an operational level  
• Ability to set priorities and provide appropriate structure to problems / issues
• Good organisational abilities        
• Time Management

PG Group, and its subsidiaries, are committed to the principles of employment equity and as such are equal opportunity employers.  Qualified applicants who apply for any vacancies will be considered with due consideration based on of fairness and equity. Factors such as race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or disability are not consider exclusively and are not determinative of any appointments made by PG Group or its subsidiaries

Requisition ID: 2845