Hitachi

Material & Production Planning Engineer

In short

This role acts as the focal point for material and production planning at Hitachi Energy's Savli, Gujarat facility, covering procurement, inventory and dispatch planning. It involves preparing yearly, monthly and weekly material and production plans based on customer forecasts, managing supplier performance, and reviewing BOM accuracy and inventory parameters. The role drives S&OP/S&OE processes with customers and internal stakeholders and requires strong organizational skills to work under pressure.

How you'll make an impact:
•Should work as Focal Point of material planning and Operation planning.
•Understand customer's forecast and prepare Yearly, monthly and weekly, material procurement & production plan.
•Work with purchasing to communicate with suppliers on Material quality, on-time deliveries, and overall performance. (Supplier Evaluation)
•Monitor customer requested delivery dates and contractual on-time delivery (OTD) performance, proactively managing risks and recovery actions.
•Plans and maintains a material procurement process that establishes and achieves the least total cost, best quality and timely delivery for facility material purchases from internal/external suppliers
•Regular review of inventory parameters
•Analyze inventory reports to identify slow moving items, overstocked items, and obsolete inventory.
•Review BOM accuracy, planning parameters, material master data, and production order compliance to support efficient planning execution.
•Review long term forecast and make visible any sourcing decisions that might be needed
•Drives S&OP and S&OE with customer and internal stakeholders.
•Perform all job functions with adherence to Hitachi's Values and Philosophy, Safety and Environmental Standards
•Work with purchasing to identify cost out opportunities related to outside purchased materials
•Work with Production to prepare day wise plan and execute.
•Prepare monthly and day to day dispatch plan and execute with Customer support team.
•Responsible for executing the end-to-end Material Master Process
•Demonstrated strong organizational skills with the ability to work well under pressure.

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