PRODUCTION PLANNER
MRM Mariakani is seeking to recruit a Production Planner to ensure efficient execution of daily and weekly production plans to meet customer demand. The role involves coordinating the flow of orders, information, and materials across departments, maintaining FIFO principles, and monitoring production compliance in line with set schedules and lead times.
Reference Number: MRM/PP/09/04/2026/2
Description
Key responsibilities:
- Daily/weekly planning & follow-through execution of customer orders, and monitoring of execution progress.
- Prepare and circulate production reports and report performance to schedule adherence.
- Scheduling and capacity levelling of production orders in SAP for execution.
- Technical Completion of production orders.
- Product inventory management and control (FG & WIP).
- Identify and initiate corrective action on Planning-related problems and improvement opportunities (WLA, RCA & 6’s)
- Any other duties assigned by Management.
Requirements
Qualifications required:
- Minimum academic qualification: Technical diploma/degree.
- Qualifications as an added advantage: Computer literacy.
- Professional registration: None.
Experience required:
- General work experience (years): 5
- Specific to the position (level/discipline/years): 3
- Industry: Steel manufacturing
Key competencies and skills:
- Analytical and Critical thinking
- Effective communication
Language requirements:
- English
- Kiswahili
Computer literacy:
- MS Office proficiency
- ERP – SAP Knowledge
Personality profile:
- Team player
- Negotiator
- Trustworthy
- Dependable
- Reliable
- Keen on details
- Proactive,
- Hands-on and dependable.
Additional/specific work requirements:
- Ability to endure long and odd working hours
- Minimum supervision