Position Description: Production Planning Manager - SMS & Hot Rolling Division (HRD)
To lead integrated production planning, scheduling, and production control activities for the Steel Melting Shop (SMS), Continuous Casting, and Hot Rolling Division (HRD), ensuring optimized resource utilization, synchronized material flow, customer delivery adherence, inventory optimization, and operational excellence through effective coordination with plant leadership, sales teams, and senior management.
Key Responsibilities
Production Planning
- Develop annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily production plans aligned with:
- Sales forecasts
- Order book requirements
- Customer priorities
- Export commitments
- Inventory norms
- Melt shop capacities
- Casting capacities
- Hot rolling capacities
- Translate demand plans into executable manufacturing schedules considering:
- Grade mix optimization
- Heat sequencing
- Slab allocation strategy
- Width campaigns
- Thickness progression
- Rolling campaign optimization
- Product mix balancing
- Order due dates
- Sales priorities
- Establish planning horizons, frozen schedules, and execution windows.
- Balance production plans across:
- Steel Melting Shop (SMS)
- Continuous Casting
- Slab Yard
- Reheating Furnaces
- Hot Rolling Mills
- Finishing and Dispatch
- Ensure synchronization between upstream steelmaking and downstream rolling operations.
SMS Planning & Scheduling
Responsible for production planning and detailed scheduling of:
Steel Melting Shop Operations