Material & Production Planner

The Material & Production Planner is responsible for end-to-end material and production planning to support Arineta’s Systems & Spare parts delivery plan.

The role ensures timely availability of materials, assemblies, and critical components,

Coordinating production activities with subcontractors, suppliers, internal manufacturing, procurement, engineering, quality, Sales and warehouse teams.

The position requires a highly hands-on approach, strong ownership, forecasting and planning experience and capabilities, ability to identify risks early and drive them to closure.

Production Planning

• Build and maintain monthly and weekly production plans based on customer demand, delivery commitments, forecast, and production capacity.
• Translate the system delivery plan into production requirements at system, assembly, and sub-assembly level.
• Identify bottlenecks, delays, and potential risks that may impact the production or delivery plan.
• Define and coordinate production priorities according to business needs.
• Monitor actual production progress against the approved plan and initiate recovery actions when required.
• Open, maintain, update, and close work orders in the ERP system.

Material Planning

• Ensure material readiness for the production, system delivery plan Spare parts and Contract Manufacturers
• Perform MRP analysis based on BOM requirements, inventory, open purchase orders, work orders, and lead times.
• Manage material shortages, defective parts, MRB items, rework, replacements, and completion activities for production and Contract Manufacturers.
• Identify current and future material shortages and initiate preventive actions.
• Closely monitor critical and long-lead-time components.
• Balance material availability requirements with inventory optimization.
• Identify excess, obsolete, and slow-moving inventory and highlight potential exposure.
• Maintain clear visibility of material readiness for each planned system.
• Identify and resolve discrepancies between ERP records and actual production or inventory status
• Coordinate material shortages, defective parts, MRB items, rework, replacements, and completion activities.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Work closely with Supply Chain, Procurement, Warehouse, Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Service, Finance, suppliers, and Contract Manufacturers.
• Maintain a single, reliable, and up-to-date view of production and material status and proactively communicate risks to the relevant stakeholders.
• Evaluate the material and production impact of ECOs / ECNs.
• Identify inventory and open orders affected by engineering changes.
• Coordinate cut-in / cut-off implementation of new revisions.
• Support the implementation of engineering changes while minimizing production disruption and inventory exposure.
• Coordinate with Engineering, Quality, Procurement, and suppliers regarding implementation timing.

•      Monitor materials under MRB, Hold, Rework, or replacement processes.