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About the Team
As a Production Planner, you will be part of the planning team reporting into the Senior Production Planner located onsite near the production line.
What We Are Looking For
About the Team
As a Production Planner, you will be part of the planning team reporting into the Senior Production Planner located onsite near the production line.
About The Role
The Production Planner will support the Production Manager & Production Launch Manager in defining and maintaining the relevant Production Schedules and SAP Production Orders for all current vehicle production programs.
The Production Planner will collaborate with the production, material management and configuration management teams to continually optimise the production schedule relative to manufacturing capacity, material availability and customer delivery schedules. The Production Planner will produce and present all relevant schedule and planning status reports to the Production leadership team.
As Production Planner, you can anticipate some of your day-to-day tasks to include:
* Develop and maintain the overall production schedule for all current vehicle production programs;
* Build, maintain, schedule and release vehicle and component production orders in SAP;
* Generate all production order related documentation E.g. drawing sets;
* Manage sub contracted manufacturing task to schedule including tracking and reporting of status;
* Release / call off material orders for vehicle production orders in SAP;
* Populate build status reports for production order completion;
* Generate delivery documentation;
* Lead the management of material availability per production order in line with schedule, including material tracking and expediating supply;
* Develop and manage all rework orders in SAP;
* Develop standardised production scheduling and material availability status reports for management reporting;
* Support the overall production and material management teams during production ramp up and commissioning;
* Maintain and develop high quality relationships with the international Rheinmetall production teams to share information and lessons learned; and
* Ensure compliance with RDA’s Health, Safety & Environment Policy requirements, and in general take any reasonable steps and precautions to protect or minimise harm to the workplace, its employees and the environment.
What Qualifications You Should Have
What are we looking for?
Rheinmetall seeks applicants who exemplify our Company’s values of Safety, Partnering, Openness, Respect and Trust (SPORT). This creates a workplace environment where employees value each other, live up to their promises and communicate openly.
The experience and skillset best suited to this role includes:
* Tertiary qualifications in Business, Engineering, STEM or relevant discipline;
* 5 years + experience in a similar production planning role within a complex program / vehicle production environment or other high-volume manufacturing environment;
* Practical hands-on approach with good mechanical aptitude E.g. the ability to understand the vehicle assembly process;
* Advanced MS Office Applications (Word, (Excel – Gantt charts, macros & pivot tables), PowerPoint, MS Project, Outlook).
* Significant Production ERP system experience E.g. SAP, JDE or similar;
* Ability to travel interstate and internationally when required; and
* Eligibility to obtain an Australian Government Security Clearance (Australian Citizenship required).
What We Offer You
* Long weekends every second week with a 9 day fortnight;
* Attractive remuneration packages with salary sacrificing and novated leases;
* Access to exclusive employee discounts with over 500 retailers to support cost of living;
* Individualised Flexible Working Arrangements;
* Market leading parental leave and loyalty leave accrual for every year of service;
* On-site subsidised café with themed days and multiple dietary options;
* Extensive Employee Assistance Program to support you and your family with overall health and wellbeing;
* Genuine career development and progression opportunities;
* Generous internal incentive and referral program;
* Work as part of a team with real purpose in what we do;
* We are proud to be an Endorsed Employer for All Women with WORK180.
CONTACT INFORMATION
RDA Talent Acquisition Team
Applications will close on 10th of July 2025
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
* Employment type
Contract
Job function
* Job function
Management and Manufacturing
* Industries
Defense and Space Manufacturing
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