**Job Description**:
HARTING stands for strong connections - across the globe. As one of the leading international suppliers of industrial connectivity, we are connecting customers to their digital future. And as an employer? We connect around 6,000 people at our headquarter in Espelkamp and at locations worldwide. Here you’ll find great colleagues, as well as ever new opportunities and innovations revolving around IoT and artificial intelligence. In everything we do, we remain true to our roots: as a regionally connected family business that always stays firmly grounded in spite of our stellar high-tech. Here’s to your unique future with us: Yours!
Our offer for the next step into a new career:
- Production Planner
Job Family: Supply Chain
Job Title: Production Planner
Reporting: Materials Manager
Functional objectives:
- 1. Ensure production on time and at the lowest possible cost._
- 2. Maximize resources and production._
- 3. Demand management and production control._
- 4. Manage inventory at the optimal level._
Is responsible for:
- _Monitor current production levels and provide detailed plans, ensuring the flow of raw materials and low levels of obsolescence for work on the production floor in accordance with demand and quality standards._
- _Analyze the proposed production plan with buyers, the plant manager, and the production manager._
- _Coordinate the production workflow._
- _Plan and prioritize operations to ensure maximum throughput and minimum delays._




- _Ensure correct demand in SAP so that the system determines the required quantity of raw materials._
- _Support Customer Service priorities, ensuring perfect order delivery._
- _Control and maintain SKUs in the system._
- _Manage sales orders._
- _Create a production schedule in SAP._
- _Demand planning._
- _Manage inventory levels._
- _Generate a report in SAP of non-moving and/or slow-moving part numbers._
- _Maintain updated records in SAP: inventories, production orders, purchase orders, exception messages, and daily invoicing._
- _Generate, control, and manage forecasts, demands, sales orders, and production orders._
- _Maintain backlog monitoring at optimal levels._
- _Review demand planning with Customer Service._
- _Present compliance with the production schedule and daily production plan._
- _Maximize the level of service to external customers._
- _Coordinate work teams to achieve objectives._
- _Understand the quality policy and quality objectives._
- _Perform duties and responsibilities in accordance with the documented quality system._
- _Recommend and implement improvements to activities and processes within the quality system._
- _The functions listed above are illustrative, but not limiting._




Education and professional knowledge:
- _Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Industrial Engineering, or related field._
- _3 years of work experience in a similar position, experience with electrical components is desirable._
Functional, technical and individual competences required:
- _Supply chain process proficiency._
- _SAP proficiency._
- _Inventory management._
- _MS Office proficiency._
- _Client portal management._
- _Tolerance for frustration and ambiguity._
- _Advanced English._
- _Materials planning._
- _Production planning._
- _Numerical analysis skills._
- _Personnel management skills._
- _Effective communication, leadership, and good interpersonal skills for teamwork._
- _Decision-making for optimal problem resolution._
- _Process innovation._
- _Ethics._
- _Design and management of efficient and sustainable processes._
- _Corporate environmental and social responsibility._
- It would be a distinct advantage if the Job holder has previous experience in the following areas:_
- _Knowledge of customer service._
- _Knowledge of PowerBI._
- _Experience in the automotive industry._
- _Experience with IATF 16949 processes._
Good reasons to get started at HARTING:
**Onsite Café**
Enjoy a wide assortment of food options that provides breakfast and lunch, at a low cost to team members.Information at a Glance
**Company location**:
Silao, Mexico
**Region**:
México
**Contact person**:
Abigail Cervantes
**LinkedIn URL Recruiter**:

📌 Production Planner (Silao)
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