Job Description: Engineer Production Planning

The Company

Endress+Hauser is a global leader in measurement and automation technology for process and laboratory applications. The family company, headquartered in Reinach, Switzerland, achieved net sales of more than 4 billion euros in 2025 with a total workforce of nearly 18000.

Endress+Hauser devices, solutions and services are at home in many industries. Customers thus use them to gain valuable knowledge from their applications. This enables them to improve their products, work economically and at the same time protect people and the environment.

Endress+Hauser is a reliable partner worldwide. Its own sales companies in more than 50 countries as well as representatives in another 70 countries ensure competent support. Production facilities on four continents manufacture quickly and flexibly to the highest quality standards.

Endress+Hauser was founded in 1953 by Georg H Endress and Ludwig Hauser. Ever since, the company has been pushing ahead with the development and use of innovative technologies, now helping to shape the industry's digital transformation. 8,700 patents and applications protect the Group's intellectual property.

Established in India for over 20 years, the company has various production sites and branches in the country. To strengthen their presence for one of their subsidiaries, Endress+Hauser Temperature + System Products is looking for a Production Manager India to join their team.

The Position

Entity: Endress+Hauser Temperature + System Products

Position: Engineer Production Planning - of APC Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Associated Product Centre)

Job Title: Engineer Production Planning

Location: Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, India

Reporting to: Head of Operations Production and Industrial Engineering

Related business region:



APC Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar is supplying to India, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Africa, and Turkey

Responsibilities

This role will be responsible To ensure productive planning and scheduling of production activities to meet customer requirements, optimize resource utilization, and maintain smooth workflow across manufacturing operations. Production support including participation in daily shop floor management, implementing work packages from change requests, master data maintenance, and supporting LEAN initiatives.

Purpose of the role, responsibilities and deliverables:

Product responsibility:

- Coordination and implementation of work packages from change requests as part of life cycle management.
- Creation and maintenance of E-numbers.
- Creating, maintaining and checking work plans and work instructions (e.g. assembly instructions, test instructions, etc.).
- Maintaining and checking material views for production planning.
- Collaboration on product transfers for existing series products and new products from MS3.
- Carrying out time studies and maintaining the data in SAP.

Production support:
- Supervision of production groups regarding master data and production process.
- Participation in daily DSM with takeover of resulting work packages.
- Initiating and participating in problem-solving workshops on 8D & A3.
- Moderation and implementation of cardboard engineering.




- Implementation of Ergo Checks.

Optimization:
- Take over the management as well as cooperation and support in KAIZEN and Lean projects and activities.
- Implementation of continuous improvement of local manufacturing processes.

Production planning:
- Planning of production layouts.
- Develop and maintain production plans based on sales forecasts, inventory levels, and capacity constraints.
- Coordinate with procurement, production, and quality teams to ensure timely availability of materials and resources.
- Monitor production progress and adjust schedules to address delays or bottlenecks.
- Analyse capacity and load to optimize machine utilization and workforce allocation.
- Prepare and update daily, weekly, and monthly production schedules.
- Maintain bill of material and routings for standard products.
- Track key performance indicators (KPIs) such as production delivery to customer, production efficiency, and quality complaints.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance planning accuracy and reduce lead times.
- Communicate effectively with cross-functional teams to resolve planning conflicts.

Flexibility in the Mini Factory:
- Supporting necessary measures in the Mini Factory, which are defined by the MF Manager, e.g. in the event of substitution, in exceptional situations.
- Carrying out the disposition / orders: SAP BANF, clarification of parts in MAFIS, invoice workflow

The Person - Profile & Requirements

Education & Experience

- Minimum Qualification: BE Mechanical / Industrail Engineer / Production (REFA training, technician, master craftsman or technical studies)
- 3 - 5 years of professional experience in manufacturing environment in a multinational organization is mandatory.

📌 Engineer - Production Planning (India)
🏢 Endress+Hauser
📍 India