The Planning Coordinator plays a key role in securing the operational performance and delivery commitments of the Business Unit Component across the Charleroi and Haren sites. The position ensures a clear, realistic, and shared view of production capabilities and short-term planning, acting as the central interface between operations, management, and commercial functions. By aligning capacity, workload, and priorities, the role directly supports on-time delivery, workload balancing, and decision-making at both operational and management levels.
Primary Responsibilities:
Production Capability Management
- Create, maintain, and continuously update the production capability analysis for both CRL and HAR sites.
- Define and monitor available capacity based on resources, skills, equipment, and constraints.
- Identify capacity gaps, risks, and overload situations, and proactively propose mitigation actions.
- Ensure capability data is reliable, transparent, and shared with key stakeholders.
Production Planning & Scheduling
- Create, maintain, and monitor the day-to-day production planning for CRL and HAR sites.
- Translate workload demand into realistic and achievable short-term plans aligned with available capacity.
- Adjust planning priorities based on operational constraints, urgencies, and commercial commitments.
- Monitor plan adherence and highlight deviations, risks, and recovery actions.
Operational Performance & Visibility
- Provide clear visibility on workload, capacity utilization, and planning risks through structured reporting and KPIs.
- Support operational reviews by providing accurate data and forward-looking analyses.
- Contribute to lead-time control, backlog reduction, and workload leveling across sites.
Interface with Management & Commercial Functions
- Act as the key interface between operations and management/commercial teams.
- Support decision-making by assessing feasibility of new demand, priorities, and delivery commitments.
- Translate commercial requirements into operational plans and constraints into management-level insights.
Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve planning processes, tools, and data reliability.
- Contribute to harmonization of planning practices between CRL and HAR.
- Support initiatives aimed at improving robustness, predictability, and agility of the planning process.
Cross-Functional Coordination
- Work closely with production, logistics, engineering, quality, and supply chain teams.
- Ensure alignment between capacity, material availability, and operational execution.
Required Skills:
- Industrial Engineering Master Degree or equivalent.
- Experience in production planning, capacity management, or operational coordination in an industrial or aerospace environment.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into operational and management insights.
- Structured and methodical approach with strong planning and prioritization capabilities.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to interact with both shop-floor and management stakeholders.
- Ability to manage complexity across multiple sites and balance short-term urgencies with mid-term vision.
- Proactive, solution-oriented mindset with a strong sense of ownership.
- Good knowledge of planning tools and ERP systems (SAP is a strong asset).
- Fluent in French or Dutch and English; knowledge of Dutch or French is mandatory #LI-CG1
