Role Overview The Project Planning & Production Control Lead is responsible for developing and managing project and production schedules to ensure on-time delivery of customer orders. The role works closely with Engineering, Supply Chain,

Production, and other cross-functional teams to align material availability, manufacturing capacity, and project milestones.The position plays a critical role in capacity planning, resource optimization and production scheduling.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and maintain detailed project schedules in close coordination with Engineering, Supply Chain, and

Production teams.

Monitor project milestones and overall progress, and provide timely weekly status reports to management

Collaborate with production teams to understand capacity, resource availability and production capacity to create accurate schedule

Sound knowledge in capacity planning and identify the bottleneck resources/process

Ensure sufficient loading of machines. Monitor daily output in terms of quantity as well as time.

Coordinate with supply chain to ensure materials available on time to start production activities

Communicate production plans, schedule changes, priorities, and risks to relevant stakeholders.

Proactively identify project execution risks and develop mitigation plans to minimize schedule impacts.

Monitor engineering changes and assess their impact on project schedules, inventory, and production activities

Hands on experience in identifying and maintaining safety stock and Kanban.





Review with concerned stakeholders to ensure manufacturing completes on time.

Revise production schedules as required to accommodate changing priorities, material availability, capacity constraints, and customer requirements.

Track project-wise material shortages and develop assembly kitting release plans to support smooth production flow.

Monitor Key performance indicators on daily, weekly, and monthly and apply problem solving for continuous improvement.

Foresee the risks in project execution and escalate to management.

Prepare and present project status reports, performance metrics, and recovery plans to management.

Co-ordinate with other functions and pull materials for uniform loading in machining, welding, and assembly.

Improve utilisation of plant capacity.

Requirements

Critical Competencies for Success

Good communication skills with the ability to form and maintain good relationships with internal & external stakeholders.

Basic knowledge in ERP function

Valuable interpersonal, negotiation and analytical skills.

Strong technical mindset and able to read and interpret technical data and translate to others.

Assertive, optimistic, resilient and welcomes changes.

Good proficiency in excel.

Knowledge of overall manufacturing process

Result orientated and organised with the ability to deliver against deadlines.

Basic knowledge in Power BI added advantage

BE (Mechanical Engineering) with 10-12 years post qualification experience with valve industry(Preferably).

Benefits

Industrial standards

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