Production Planner
Location:
Georgetown, DE, GY
Employment type:
Employee
Place of work:
Office
Offshore/Onshore:
Onshore
Job Purpose
The Production Control Planner is responsible for planning, coordinating, and controlling the flow of materials, work orders, and service activities within the Subsea Services workshop to support maintenance, modification, repair, and service projects. This role ensures material availability, accurate ERP data management, effective workshop scheduling, and alignment of resources to project priorities, enabling the timely delivery of equipment and services in accordance with customer requirements, operational objectives, and global planning standards.
Job Description
- Plan, create, and manage service and work orders, including sub-order creation, scheduling, dispatching, and execution tracking for workshop activities.
- Coordinate the flow of materials, components, assemblies, and inventory across multiple projects and work packages to support production and service requirements.
- Monitor material demand, inventory levels, shortages, and delivery schedules to ensure material availability aligns with project milestones and customer commitments.
- Maintain and update ERP master data, Bills of Materials (BOMs), service notifications, and quality notifications to ensure data accuracy and process compliance.
- Evaluate workshop capacity, develop tactical execution plans, and optimize resource utilization to support forecasted and active service projects.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders including Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, Suppliers, and Third-Party Service Providers to resolve material and scheduling challenges.
- Prepare and communicate material status reports, project progress updates, and potential risks, proactively escalating issues that may impact schedule, quality, or delivery performance.
- Ensure compliance with global planning standards, procedures, governance requirements, and support continuous improvement initiatives through problem-solving and process optimization.
You are meant for this job if:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Materials Planning, Operations Management, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Approximately 3+ years of experience in production planning, material planning, supply chain, manufacturing, or service operations environments.
- Experience managing work orders, production schedules, material requirements planning (MRP), and inventory control processes.
- Knowledge of ERP systems (e.g., SAP or equivalent) with experience maintaining master data, BOMs, and planning-related transactions.
- Strong understanding of supply chain processes, material flow management, forecasting, and workshop or manufacturing operations.
- Ability to analyze inventory, capacity, demand, and project schedules to identify risks and develop effective mitigation plans.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and coordination skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams and external suppliers.
- Demonstrated problem-solving capabilities, attention to detail, and understanding of project milestones, critical paths, and operational performance requirements in a service or manufacturing environment.
Skills
Date posted:
Oct 26, 2026
Requisition number:
20339