Central Planning Manager

Role & responsibilities

To manage centralized production planning, material planning, capacity planning and delivery schedules for gear motors and gearboxes, ensuring optimum utilization of manpower, machines and materials while achieving on-time delivery (OTD) and minimizing inventory and production bottlenecks.

1. Production Planning

• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly production plans for gear motors and gearboxes.
• Convert customer orders into executable production schedules.
• Coordinate planning across machining, gear manufacturing, heat treatment, assembly, testing and dispatch.
• Prioritize production based on customer requirements, delivery commitments and material availability.
• Monitor plan vs. actual production and take corrective actions.

2. Material Planning MRP

• Prepare material requirements based on production plans and customer orders.
• Coordinate with Purchase, Stores and Production for timely availability of raw materials, bought-out components and critical spares.
• Monitor shortages and expedite critical materials.
• Maintain optimum inventory levels and avoid excess/obsolete inventory.
• Track BOM, lead time, minimum stock and safety stock requirements.

3. Capacity Planning

• Analyze machine and manpower capacity against production requirements.
• Identify bottlenecks, capacity constraints and critical machines.
• Balance loading across machines and production lines.
• Plan subcontracting wherever internal capacity is insufficient.
• Coordinate with Production and Maintenance teams for machine availability.

4. Gear Motor Production Planning

• Plan production considering different gear ratios, motor ratings, frame sizes and product configurations.
• Coordinate availability of gears, shafts, housings, bearings, motors, couplings and other components.
• Ensure synchronization between gearbox manufacturing and motor assembly.
• Monitor WIP at each stage and prevent line stoppages.

5. Order & Delivery Management

• Review open sales orders and committed delivery dates.
• Prepare priority-wise production schedules.
• Track order status from material availability machining assembly testing dispatch.
• Highlight potential delivery delays and prepare recovery plans.
• Work closely with Sales/Customer Service for revised delivery commitments.

Preferred candidate profile

BE (Mech) is mandatory with exp in Gear Box & Gear motors