PMM Specialist

About the role

The Production Planning Specialist plays a central role in ensuring efficient, reliable, and cost-effective production by developing and executing optimized production plans.

Responsibilities

• Maximize production efficiency and work-center utilization through data-driven planning and daily adjustments.
• Ensure material availability and optimal inventory levels via rigorous materials planning, replenishment control, and MRP optimization.
• Cook up closely with sales, production, and suppliers to meet delivery dates, resolve deviations, and prioritize orders by setup and customer requirements.
• Maintain accurate production documentation and master data to enable reliable production order processing and warehouse operations.
• Identify and mitigate inventory risks (critical, slow- and non-moving items) while controlling storage costs.
• Communicate clearly and professionally to build relationships across departments and support company objectives.
• Capacity planning for the respective production work centers.
• Daily production planning performance/target adjustment of the respective production work center, report to sales in case of deviations.
• Arrange appointments for sales and production (considering plant capacity and components availability).
• Optimally block orders according to set-up requirements.
• Create all production documents which are necessary for production order processing (pallet labels / production order documents etc.).
• Report the current utilization of work centers and storage capacities.
• Date control, with sales and suppliers.
• Materials planning, order processing, stock materials order monitoring and replenishment control.
• Materials planning, order processing and requirement-based order monitoring of materials.
• Warehouse stock management at optimal costs (MRP parameter maintenance).
• Monitor critical stock (non-moving items, slow-moving items).
• Optimize the MRP parameters (product groups, classifications).
• Master data maintenance (purchasing info records).
• Embody EGGER Core Values.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 2–5+ years production or materials planning experience in a manufacturing environment (experience with discrete or panel/wood production preferred).
• Hands-on daily production scheduling and capacity planning experience for multiple work centers or a production line.
• Strong materials planning / MRP execution skills (replenishment control, monitoring purchase orders, managing lead times and safety stock).
• ERP experience (practical daily use of an ERP system; SAP experience strongly preferred).
• Proven ability to create and manage production documentation (production orders, labels) and to maintain accurate master data.
• Clear, professional verbal and written communication skills; experience coordinating with sales, production, procurement, and warehouse/operations.
• Demonstrated record of meeting deadlines, following through on tasks, and working independently (self-starter mentality).
• Solid Excel skills (pivot tables, lookup functions such as VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH) for reporting and analysis.
• Attention to detail and ability to report and interpret work center utilization and storage capacity/stock reports.

Skills

• Attention to Detail
• Good Communication
• Problem Solving
• Ethical Standards
• Team Collaboration
• Critical Thinking
• Time Management