MOLD SHOP PLANNER

JOB PURPOSEEnsure every new mold project, repair, and modification has an accurate and current plan—from order release to final acceptance to meets agreed delivery dates.Plan and control the flow of jobs through the mold shop: material preparation, CNC, polishing/assembly, inspection, repair, and outsourced processes.Give management and production teams a clear daily picture of what must be done, what is late, what is blocked, and what action is required.Build simple, disciplined planning routines and data for a mold shop: realistic lead times, capacity planning, and on-time-delivery control.KEY RESPONSIBILITIESReceive the new mold delivery time and priorities from the Project team, check internally, then confirm the requested delivery date.Create and update daily the master plan and milestone schedule for different mold-making processes.Break the mold into major components and operations; define planned start/finish dates and the critical path for each project.Prepare and issue the daily and weekly job-priority plan for each mold-making process.Check actual work completed on the shop floor and in the digital system every day; update WIP status, remaining operations, estimated completion date, and next process.Reschedule jobs when priorities, engineering changes, machine breakdowns, quality issues, or material delays occur, after alignment with responsible stakeholders.Create and follow up the material/component requirement list for mold steel, standard parts, fixtures, heat treatment, coating, and external machining.Work with Purchasing and suppliers to confirm arrival dates and immediately report shortages that can delay the plan.Control outsource dispatch and return dates; ensure external jobs are included in the master schedule and followed to completion.Maintain a daily list of open jobs, due dates, overdue operations, bottlenecks, and recovery actions.Organize or support short daily production meetings; record the action owner, target completion date, and status for each key issue.Issue a weekly progress report showing project status, plan-versus-actual completion, jobs at risk, material shortages, outsource status, and delivery forecast.Collect actual processing and waiting times to improve future planned lead times and capacity assumptions.Maintain a simple planning database for job status, routing, machine loading, planned dates, actual dates, and delay reasons.Propose practical improvements to reduce waiting time, unnecessary WIP, poor handover, and repeated schedule delays.Receive the mold repair request, confirm repair scope and priority, then prepare the repair timeline with Production.Align the plan with internal capacity, material availability, machine status, and outsourcing requirements.Identify risks early, coordinate corrective actions with stakeholders, and maintain the committed repair deadline. Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Production/Operations Management, or another relevant technical discipline.Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience as a Production Planner, Production Controller, Project Coordinator, Planner/Scheduler, or equivalent position in a mold shop, precision-machining, injection-molding manufacturing.Must understand the real mold-shop process flow: steel and standard components, CAM/CNC, assembly/polishing, inspection, repair, and external processing.Ability to read simple mechanical drawings, BOM/part lists, process routes, operation status, and delivery/milestone schedules.Good Microsoft Excel skills for schedule tracking, formulas, filtering, pivot tables, charts, and status reporting. Experience with ERP/MRP/MES is preferred but not mandatory.Good English communication and coordination skills.Organized, proactive, persistent in follow-up, comfortable communicating with operators and engineers, and able to handle changing priorities without losing data accuracy.Experience with 5S, Lean, Kanban, visual production control, capacity planning, or shop-floor reporting is an advantage.