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ALFA LAVAL

Heat transfer, separation, fluid handling solutions

Production Planner

Production Planning & SchedulingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeKunshan, Suzhou, Jiangsu, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Bachelor degree or above; a major in mechanical, logistics, or foreign trade is preferred.
  • Three to five years of working experience in production planning, including more than three years in metal-processing materials and production planning and inventory control.
  • Ability to create and read flow charts and develop standard planning processes.
  • Familiarity with bills of materials, production routes, and standard times.
  • Familiarity with Office software and ERP systems; familiarity with Microsoft Dynamics is beneficial.
  • Ability to work in a production environment.
  • Good English reading, writing, and oral communication skills, including the ability to speak and write in meetings.

Responsibilities

  • Create detailed daily, weekly, and monthly production plans aligned with the long-term master plan and customer order priorities, making use of personnel and equipment capacity and controlling materials inventory.
  • Purchase materials directly to support production, optimize raw-material inventory levels, and reduce company costs.
  • Manage production orders and coordinate with the production team manager to plan materials deliveries to the production workshop and meet production deliverables.
  • Arrange workshop personnel and overtime according to production-order status.
  • Analyze forecasts, costs, and capacity; identify bottleneck equipment; and improve capacity and delivery balance to optimize production capacity utilization.
  • Prepare periodic reports on planning accuracy and causes of plan failures, and take corrective and preventive actions.
  • Manage suppliers and direct material purchases, including creating orders, confirming deliveries, and following up on receiving; work with purchasing and other departments to improve supplier quality.
  • Calculate forecasts and share them with suppliers; check weekly and monthly supplier payments; enter invoices in AX; and register and submit payment tracking.
  • Establish and update MRP/AX system parameters, including minimum inventory levels, multiple specifications, minimum and maximum order quantities, cycles, and supplier delivery times, to shorten delivery cycles and improve customer satisfaction.
  • Set reasonable storage plans and locations for materials, including system and physical goods, lots, reorder points, and safety stock, and manage optimal stock levels.

Desired Qualifications

  • A major in mechanical, logistics, or foreign trade.
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Dynamics.

About the Company

ALFA LAVAL

Heat transfer, separation, fluid handling solutions

Alfa Laval provides sustainable solutions for heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling across industries such as energy, food, water, and marine. It sells advanced equipment and process systems and offers ongoing service to keep them running efficiently and long-lasting. Its products work by using heat exchangers to transfer heat, separators to remove components, and pumps and valves to move fluids in industrial processes, and it differentiates itself through a focus on sustainability, long-term service, and strong research and development. The company aims to help customers boost productivity and quality while reducing environmental impact, and to create shareholder value through steady innovation, operational excellence, and strategic financial actions like share buybacks.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Lund Municipality, Sweden
Founded
1883

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