Planning Engineer

Industry: Pre-insulated & Coated Piping Systems Manufacturing
Location: Abu Dhabi
Reports to: Operations / Planning Manager

About the Role

Our client an established international Engineering systems is looking for a Planning Engineer to drive production and project planning across its manufacturing operations. The role sits between Projects Engineering Production Procurement QA/QC and Logistics making sure orders are produced on schedule materials are where they need to be and committed delivery dates are met.

Key Responsibilities

Production and Project Planning

Review customer orders project purchase releases technical requirements bills of materials (BOM) drawings and delivery milestones and clarify planning inputs with Projects and Engineering.
Prepare maintain and communicate master production schedules along with rolling monthly weekly and daily plans for pipe insulation coating fabrication welding fittings and related operations.
Create and release ERP work orders routing sequences planned quantities material requests and job priorities and update work-order progress and completed quantities.
Assess plant equipment labour shift welding and coating-line capacity identify bottlenecks and recommend realistic sequencing overtime or subcontracting.
Run status meetings and coordinate with Production QA/QC and Logistics so that manufacturing completion lines up with inspection dispatch and site delivery dates.

Material and Resource Coordination

Prepare material requirements and purchase requisitions for steel pipes and fittings insulation chemicals jackets/casings coating consumables field-joint kits leak-detection cables and project-specific items.
Work with Procurement and Stores on stock availability PO status incoming shipments shortages and allocation of material to work orders.
Check planned against actual raw-material usage in ERP (steel and chemicals) and flag abnormal consumption wastage and inventory discrepancies.

Manufacturing Execution Control

Plan manufacturing stages including surface preparation blasting coating application and curing pipe and fitting prefabrication welding and dimensional checks and insulation and jacketing.
Make sure plans account for approved drawings ITPs hold points testing rework and release requirements without bypassing QA/QC approvals.
Sequence special engineered components (bends spools field-joint materials) and customer-specific packaging or preservation needs.
Prepare monthly production plans and performance targets based on raw-material availability and review welding capacity and manufacturing estimates for major consumables.

Monitoring Reporting and Improvement

Report plan-versus-actual output schedule variance backlog WIP and forecast completion dates.
Produce weekly and monthly performance indices and dashboards covering schedule adherence capacity utilisation on-time completion and material shortages.
Analyse delays and constraints start recovery plans and escalate risks to customer delivery.
Contribute to continuous-improvement efforts aimed at cutting waiting time rework excess inventory and cycle time.
Keep planning records accurate and comply with ISO management systems HSE requirements and document control.

Key Accountabilities

Production schedule adherence and on-time work-order completion
On-time readiness for committed project dispatch milestones
Accuracy and timeliness of ERP production and planning reports
Material availability and prompt escalation of shortages
Effective capacity utilisation controlled WIP and fewer avoidable delays
Compliance with quality HSE and planning procedures

Requirements

Education: Bachelors degree in Mechanical Industrial or Production Engineering (Mechanical preferred)
Experience: 3 to 5 years ideally as a Planning Engineer in a manufacturing environment
Languages: Fluent English; the regional language of the work location is an advantage
Technical: Able to read engineering drawings
Software: MS Office (Excel PowerPoint Word Outlook Project) AutoCAD project management tools
Advantageous: Training in production planning ERP/MRP Lean manufacturing project controls or Primavera/MS Project
Driving licence: Required

Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1

Planning Engineer- Abu Dhabi