Production Planner (human)

Your mission & challenges

As a Production Planner (human), you will play a key role in the operational planning and control of our manufacturing processes for innovative robotic and sensor systems. You ensure that production orders are efficiently scheduled, released on time, and executed smoothly – taking into account material availability, capacity, and production targets. With your organizational skills and process-oriented mindset, you contribute significantly to the performance of our digitalized manufacturing environment.

Your main tasks include:

• Plan, check availability, and release production orders

• Provide and maintain production documentation

• Create, monitor, and adjust production schedules

• Contribute to the further development of detailed production planning and control processes

• Coordinate production deadlines based on material availability and capacity planning

• Identify bottlenecks and develop measures to increase capacity

• Act as an interface between production, purchasing, logistics, quality management, engineering, and sales

• Take responsibility for inventory management and documentation

• Monitor stock levels and work-in-progress inventory

• Actively communicate with sales, production, and engineering teams to coordinate prototype and series production timelines

What we can look forward to

• Completed training as an industrial clerk, technician, or a degree in business/engineering or a comparable qualification

• Ideally, experience in an industrial company in the area of production planning or control

• Confident handling of ERP systems, preferably Microsoft Dynamics

• Solid knowledge of production planning and control processes

• High level of initiative, assertiveness, and organizational skills

• Proficient in MS Office, especially Excel

• Technical and entrepreneurial thinking with a structured, process-oriented working style

• Strong team and communication skills

• Problem-solving ability and mediation skills