Production Planner – Complex Component Manufacturing

Project overview

We are now looking for a Production Planner for a consulting assignment with our client in Örebro. The client is a small technology and manufacturing company with about 30 employees working with custom components and complex manufacturing.

This is a new and important role where you will have the opportunity to take clear ownership of the entire production planning process – from when a new customer project comes in until the finished article can be produced with the right quality and conditions.

About the assignment

Our client is in a situation where production planning is currently handled by combining existing resources. They now want to establish a dedicated function that takes collective responsibility for industrialization and production planning.

As a Production Planner, you will be the unifying link throughout the entire manufacturing chain. The processes can include, among other things, 3D printing of blanks, machining, measurement, X-ray, and surface treatment.

You do not need to be a specialist in every single process step. The most important thing is that you have the ability to understand the whole, identify the necessary expertise, and ensure that all parts work together.

You will have clear ownership of the process and are responsible for ensuring that the production chain is feasible before production starts. This includes reviewing documentation, identifying risks and dependencies, driving issues forward, and finally signing off that the right conditions are in place.

The role reports to the production manager and involves close collaboration with project managers, the sales organization, and production, among others.

Your main responsibilities

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Who are you?

To succeed in the role, you need to be structured, meticulous, and organized, while also being proactive and confident in making decisions and driving issues forward.

You find it easy to communicate with different functions and can switch between the details in technical documentation and the overall picture of what is required to get a product through the entire manufacturing chain.

We believe you are unpretentious and thrive in an environment where you need to collaborate, solve problems, and sometimes take initiative when the path forward is not obvious. You also need to be confident in setting requirements and challenging when something needs to change for production to be carried out effectively.

It is more important that you have a holistic view, technical understanding, and the ability to coordinate complex processes than that you are a specialist in every single manufacturing method from day one.

Other information

Role: Senior Production Planner / Technical Production Coordinator

• Take overall responsibility for the industrialization and production planning of custom components.
• Build, coordinate, and quality assure the production planning for new products and projects.
• Review drawings, technical documentation, and customer-specific standards.
• Assess manufacturability, risks, capacity, and suitable production setups.
• Coordinate the entire manufacturing chain, e.g., 3D printing, machining, measurement, X-ray, and surface treatment.
• Act as the unifying link between production, production manager, project managers, sales representatives, and other relevant functions.
• Ensure that technical and quality conditions are in place before production start.
• Identify when additional internal or external expertise needs to be involved.
• Drive issues forward, follow up on dependencies, and clarify responsibilities when documentation or decisions are missing.
• Challenge the organization when necessary to create the right conditions for delivery.
• Approve and sign off that the production chain is ready to start.
• Several years of experience, preferably around 10 years, from the manufacturing industry.
• Experience in production planning, production engineering, industrialization, or similar technical coordination.
• Good understanding of machining, metrology, and complex component manufacturing.
• Experience in interpreting drawings, technical documentation, and quality requirements.
• Ability to understand and manage the entire process from technical documentation to finished article.
• Very good Swedish and good English, both spoken and written.
• Experience from component manufacturing industrial companies.
• Experience in design-related work, e.g., traditional mechanical design or production-related CAD documentation.
• Experience with surface treatment, X-ray/NDT, additive manufacturing, or other special processes.
• Technical education at university or college level.

Project details

Örebro

Work model: Primarily on-site at the client's premises

Assignment period: 12 months as a consultant, with the ambition to be recruited by the client thereafter

During the autumn, preferably before Christmas

Setup: Primarily hire-purchase, with the ambition that the consulting assignment will eventually transition into a recruitment for the client

This is an opportunity for you who want to take on significant technical and operational responsibility in a small organization and be involved in building up an important function from scratch.

• Start: flexible
• Location: Örebro, SE
• Languages: Swedish, English