Assistant Manager – Production Planning & Control (Ppc)

Description

The Assistant Manager – Production Planning & Control at Recruit AI plays a pivotal role in managing and optimizing the production planning process to ensure efficient manufacturing operations. This role involves preparing comprehensive production plans on a monthly, weekly, and daily basis based on customer orders, forecast data, and available capacity. The professional will also develop and maintain detailed production schedules, rapidly adjusting them when disruptions occur, such as equipment breakdowns, material shortages, or changing priorities. The position requires close coordination with purchasing, stores, sales, dispatch, quality, and engineering teams to ensure material availability, on-time delivery, and smooth production flow. Maintaining accurate data in ERP/SAP systems and supporting continuous improvement initiatives are critical to successful performance. The role demands a strong understanding of material requirements planning, production scheduling, inventory control, and production monitoring within a manufacturing environment. Candidates are expected to have around three years of practical experience in production planning or materials management, preferably in non-automotive manufacturing sectors such as capital goods, engineering products, FMCG, electrical, or process industries. The ideal Assistant Manager is analytical, disciplined, and adaptable, with excellent communication skills to work collaboratively across multiple departments. While this position does not include direct team management responsibilities, it requires effective cross-functional coordination to meet production goals and customer delivery commitments accurately and efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Develop monthly, weekly, and daily production plans based on customer orders, forecasts, and resource capacity.
• Create and maintain detailed production schedules, adjusting immediately for any breakdowns, shortages, or priority shifts.
• Execute material requirements planning by calculating inventory needs from BOMs and coordinating with purchasing and inventory teams to ensure timely supply.
• Monitor raw material, work in progress, and finished goods inventory to control excess stock, mitigate slow-moving items, and prevent stock-outs.
• Track progress against production plans and identify bottlenecks, collaborating with production and maintenance teams to implement corrective actions.
• Coordinate with sales and dispatch departments to ensure delivery schedules are aligned with production status and ability.
• Prepare and disseminate regular reports comparing planned versus actual production, on-time delivery performance, WIP status, material shortages, and capacity utilization.
• Maintain accurate production-related data in ERP/SAP systems, including routings, bill of materials, lead times, and work orders.
• Support continuous improvement processes such as reducing lead times, line balancing, and implementing lean manufacturing or related methodologies.
• Collaborate with quality assurance and engineering teams to integrate new product introductions and manage changes that affect production planning.
• Apply analytical skills to identify opportunities for process enhancements and proactively address challenges in production planning.
• Communicate effectively across departments to ensure smooth operations and timely resolution of issues impacting production schedules.

Experience

3 Years

Apply By

Dec 2, 2026

Required Skills

• Production Planning And Scheduling
• Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
• BOM understanding
• Inventory Control
• Advanced MS Excel
• Scheduling Adjustment
• Production Monitoring
• Cross-functional Coordination
• Report Preparation and Analysis

Nice to Have Skills

• SAP ERP
• Continuous Improvement
• Lean Manufacturing
• 5S Methodology
• Theory of Constraints
• Communication Skills