Asset Planner
Location: Atessa, Italy
Salary range: €35,000–€51,000 gross per year, depending on experience
Role purpose
The Asset Planner translates required supply volumes into a feasible, optimised production plan for the Atessa Biologicals site. The role balances customer delivery requirements with available asset capacity, maintains the planning master data that makes plans executable, and escalates deviations early.
Key responsibilities
- Build and maintain detailed production plans across a 0–3 month horizon to meet required volumes.
- Optimise plans for customer delivery and capacity utilisation.
- Define and maintain work-centre availability, including factory calendars, available-capacity intervals and loading.
- Monitor actual versus planned capacity use, report deviations and keep availability data current.
- Ensure standard-time and routing changes are accurately reflected in SAP planning transactions.
- Partner with the Technical department to establish asset and product throughput rates, securing Site Manager agreement before routing data is entered.
- Lead the weekly planning meeting and communicate weekly and monthly plan targets.
- Work with Production, Supply Chain Planning and Technical teams to resolve threats to plan delivery and act as the Supply communication interface for production blockers.
What you bring
- Strong knowledge of production planning and SAP master data.
- Solid understanding of capacity, routings, standard times and scheduling.
- Analytical problem-solving skills and confidence facilitating cross-functional discussions and escalations.
- Professional proficiency in English and Italian.
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