Production Planner

We are looking for a Production Planner If you’re passionate about working with people, discussing new ideas, influencing your professional network and contributing to new business insights, we offer you an opportunity to put your creativity in place and be part of our winning team.

Did you know Valmet’s Filter Fabrics have been on the market since 1965?

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Greetings from your future manager
- “_In our team, this is a _key role _that ensures high performance in operations, capacity utilization and transferring information from production to sales and stocks. Your main responsibility is to make connections between production and sales forecast acting as focal point. If this sounds exciting, here at Valmet, you will immerse yourself in an environment that brings out the best in you.”_ - Sofia Cardoso Pinto, Production Planning Manager

Who you are
- MSc/BSc. Degree in Engineering
- Experience in a similar role however if you’ve been working in other production, continuous improvement roles we’d be happy to meet you.
- Logical thinking with practical and hands-on attitude will help your daily work.
- Team player attitude to cooperate and build relationship in a matrix, multi-cultural, international environment and within the own team.
- Good written and verbal communication skills in English.

Your activities
- Use production resources and sales forecast to do production plans and estimate the equipment and resources needed to manufacture products.
- Evaluate production specifications and plant capacity data to determine manufacturing processes and calculate machine and operator loads.
- Monitor production activity and analyze production data so that the flow of materials is timed meet production requirements.
- Adjust schedules to accommodate backlogs, design changes, and material or labor shortages.
- Prepare work orders for production or purchase requests based on production schedules.
- Experience from SAP ERP system is considered as an advantage.
- Willingness to travel occasionally.

We offer

We offer you a rewarding position within a global industry leader: a wide onboarding program, full support from our professional team and amazing opportunities to learn and further develop your competences.

Additionally, our benefits package include:

- Compensation: You will receive meal subsidy and will be assigned to a bonus plan.
- Flexible: You will be able to manage your working time and we offer you a hybrid work model and flexible time management system.
- Health and Safety: Meet Valmet’s health team You will find a psychologist, physiotherapy, nursing services, labor and curative medicine services at our facilities. We care for our health, so as a Valmet member you will have a health insurance in which you can include your family, and a life insurance for you. You will also be invited to participate actively in Valmet’s HSE activities.
- Training and Renewal: We encourage our people’s professional and personal development with training programs, studies financing and if you want to learn a new language, you will benefit from our protocols with language schools.
- Teamwork: Bringing people together We invite you to participate in our social events: Valmet’s birthday, Christmas party, lunch/dinner with the team, among other events.

Additional information

That feeling when everything works together is what makes working at Valmet unique
- Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. With 19.000 professionals around the world, we are the leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries. Our commitment to moving our customers’ performance forward requires creativity, technological innovations, service know-how - and above all, teamwork._

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