Engineer - S&OP

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure the production planning process with a right input from actual customer demand /Product lead time /Machine capability and replenishment strategies,

• Create production planning to fulfill the customer key requirement and ensure the OTTR/OTTC/OTIF performance
• To ensure the production plan to meet the customer’s last mile delivery.
• Communicate & Ensure the PSD (Promises ship date) communication to Customer support team.
• Preparation of Daily Production Plan process of Assemblies & Kits SKU’s. Work out the weekly production plan and communicate to the next level manager to align the RM & capacity availability and production resources allocated.
• Releasing the job order to production against the daily plan
• Follow-up with production team for execution and FG stock movement to FG warehouse for on time customer dispatch.
• Review of the pending job order in system and work with the production team for quick execution.
• Monitor the Job order release and job order closing as per the agreed lead time.
• Releasing the child part issue slip in ERP against the shift wise production plan.
• Follow up the technical team for new product Job order release and routing update in ERP.
• Preparing daily machine wise loading plan and discuss with production team.
• Ensuring the Customer service level is greater than 95% by Monitoring the Daily Sale Order entry and rescheduling the Production plan against the CRD.
• Optimize the production line utilization and reduce the downtime.
• Assess production capacity across the production line /Shifts / OEE to meet the demands.
• Coordinating with Manufacturing and operation teams to ensure the readiness of 5P( People/Place/Parts/Process & Planning)
• Co-ordinate with warehouse and Logistics team to ensure on time dispatch to customer as per CRD.
• Monitoring the production plan Vs actual process and re-plan/Adjust the schedule in real time to recover from disruptions.
• Publish the production plan Vs actual and work out the detailed analysis for variance and collaborate with CFT for quick recovery.
• Identify and implement the technique to reduce the change overs and increase machine throughput and improve the production plan stability.
• Working with plant head to finalize the monthly production plan and working days patterns.  
• Maintain effective communications with all Departments for better production plan execution process.
• Ensure the closing job order in ERP as per ERP & statutory guidelines
• Interact closely with cross functional team including production, purchase, SQA, Procurement, Sourcing, in-house Quality, Design, and application Engineering team,

Keys to Success

• Lead with an outside in mindset to place customers in the center of everything we do.
• Exemplify Gates ethics and core values to develop talents with right skills, knowledge and behavior,
• Advocate reward for performance to drive accountability for sustainable growth
• Design a contemporary and innovative learning environment to attract diverse talent pool.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• The incumbent reports to Manager– S&OP and supports him in all day-to-day operations to achieve the business goals of the company. Interact closely with cross functional team including production, SQA, Procurement, Sourcing, in-house Quality, Design, and application Engineering team,

Requirements and Preferred Skills

• Minimum 3 years, proven track record in Supply chain planning in a manufacturing environment.
• Degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Business Management or equivalent.