As Operations Planner you are the pivot of Amnovis’ manufacturing activities, as you guide your colleagues and our critical suppliers towards a streamlined and timely production and delivery of our customers’ products. You devise the plans and priorities to manufacture our products within the budgeted time, while ensuring the utilization of our available resources in the most efficient manner.
With on-time-delivery as your main goal, you continuously follow up on the execution of these plans, adapting them whenever it is needed. In a nutshell, you are an administrative all-rounder with great attention to detail and an unwearying drive for optimizing every situation.
Your Tasks
- Defining production timelines for new production orders, based on resource needs and lead times
- Planning and scheduling all steps of the production process
- Identifying potential bottlenecks in production capacity, and communicating them internally
- Allocating production steps to the right workers and machines, taking into account their availability
- Communicating the production schedule to colleagues and subcontractors, and following up on the timely execution
- Continuously adjusting the production schedule based on evolving circumstances or new requirements
- Organizing and handling order administration, shipping, and receiving of subcontractor orders
- Handling order administration and product shipment of customer orders
- Managing the internal inventory levels for all products and consumables
Your Responsibilities
- Ensure delivery deadlines are consistently met and followed up on
- Optimize the prioritization and sequencing of production activities to maintain a steady workload within the available delivery timelines
- Keep production schedules aligned with actual capacity and circumstances on the production floor
- Maintain a continuous and efficient flow of products throughout production
Your Profile
- You have a bachelor’s degree, ideally in the field of supply chain, or you have +3 years of experience working in a planning role
- You have strong organizational and administrative skills
- You have impeccable communication skills, and are able to discuss effectively with colleagues, customers, and suppliers
- You are solution-oriented, resilient to stress, and you like to be in charge of your own work
- You understand terms like ‘MTO’, ‘lead time’, ‘capacity’, and ‘backorder’, and you know what they mean in practice
- You effortlessly work with advanced MS Excel functionality
- Experience with planning and scheduling methodologies or tools is definitely an asset
- You are fully proficient in English, both written and spoken
- You are located in Belgium or have a working permit to work in Belgium and are willing to relocate
What's great in the job?
- A challenging job in a lean and mean start-up company, with significant growth potential
- Nice colleagues, a great boss 😉, but even better customers 😊
- Attractive salary packages including extra-legal benefits
- Sorry, no ping-pong or pool tables at Amnovis (yet) ☹️
- Create content that will help our users on a daily basis
- Working location with excellent connectivity to public transportation
Ready to join us?
A true 'Amnovicus' can be recognized by the following values:
Act with integrity
We say what we do and we do what we say, and we do what is right.
Be proactive
We create and control situations, rather than responding to them.
Commit to quality
We don't compromise the standards we set, no matter what.
Think solution-oriented
We look at everything in terms of opportunities, not problems.
