MOLD SHOP PLANNER

JOB PURPOSE

• Ensure 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 RESPONSIBILITIES

• Receive 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.

* WHAT WE OFFER:

• Health care insurance (after probation)
• Public holidays and company day bonus
• Year end bonus
• Team dinner

* OTHER INFORMATION:

• Off all Saturdays, leave office at 4 pm on Friday.
• Free Shuttle bus from Ho Chi Minh / Bien Hoa / Ba Ria.