Job Description

As our Production Scheduling Manager, you are the heartbeat of short-term execution within the Singapore manufacturing site. Your core responsibility is to ensure that production plans are fully aligned to site capacity, labour, and asset readiness--translating demand signals into a plan we can confidently make.


You lead the frozen-to-short-term scheduling window (typically 0-6 weeks), ensuring that production schedules are feasible, achievable, and synchronized with material availability, equipment uptime, and shift patterns.


You work closely with manufacturing, engineering, supply planning, and order management teams to create capacity-led plans that enable our site to deliver on time in full, with confidence.


You'll lead a team of production scheduler, while embedding best practices, driving visualisation and exception management, and building a culture of proactive readiness and ownership.


We are building a future-focused planning function--a trusted partner that orchestrates end-to-end planning to maximise customer value and enable profitable growth. You'll play a vital role in this journey by ensuring our site planning engine runs with agility, accuracy, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

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A. Short-Term Capacity & Production Scheduling Leadership

Develop and manage the site production schedule within the frozen-to-short-term horizon (typically 0-6 weeks). Ensure that the schedule reflects true site capacity: machine availability, labour resources, tooling, and downtime. Translate weekly demand into executable schedules that are feasible and sequenced for flow, changeover efficiency, OEE, and output. Own the production wheel, planning cycles, and horizon handoffs from supply planning. Determine the work order (WO) size and build frequency cycle for small volume products to drive production efficiency improvements. Raise & manage work orders in system. Coordinate and review volume ramp-up requests with the production supervisor and supply planning team. Ensure daily readiness of work orders, shift plans, and line allocations; monitor Schedule adherence and escalate deviations. Partner with stakeholders including operations, maintenance, quality, and warehouse to ensure schedule execution risks are flagged and mitigated. Investigate low material availability issues with the Supply Planner, including deliveries of raw materials and sub-assemblies which are scheduled a week before production. Monitor and drive the timely delivery of the moulding trays between Singapore and Malaysia manufacturing sites. Identify capacity constraints and recommend resource adjustments or process improvements Lead daily/weekly readiness and review meetings, act as the single point of truth for the short-term production schedule. Communicate schedule changes promptly to cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

B. Data Accuracy & Systems Planning Discipline

Support continuous improvement of ERP configuration and process improvement in collaboration with Planning Excellence. Work with data analytical team to enhance KPI tracking, and exception reports into daily and weekly routines. Ensure compliance with company policies, quality standards, and safety requirements

C.

Leadership & People Development

Lead, coach, and support the Production Scheduler, providing guidance, structural framework, and clear development pathways. Foster a collaborative and accountable planning culture across the site and global supply planning team. Champion a mindset of continuous learning, planning ownership, and execution excellence. Support additional activities as assigned by manager to improve production scheduling process.

What You Bring

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Education

: Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations, or a related field.

Experience

: Minimum 5+ years in manufacturing planning, production scheduling, or production control roles.

Leadership

: Demonstrated experience of leading teams or coaching junior planners/schedulers.

Tools

: Strong ERP experience (e.g., SAP, Oracle) and comfort with capacity planning modules and production scheduling tools.

Skills & Attributes

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Deep understanding of product mix, routing, manufacturing capacity, constraints, and execution logic. Highly organized, detail-oriented, and proactive in short-term risk management Strong cross-functional communicator - works seamlessly with line leaders, production supervisors, and supply planning team Problem solver with a sense of urgency and calm under pressure Committed to continuous improvement and data-driven decision-making

Success Metrics

Frozen Window Adherence

+/-2% schedule adherence in frozen window (vs. schedule). ATP and ATS Metrics as defined.

Capacity Alignment

Zero major constraint-driven re-plans in the 0 to 6-week window

Execution Readiness

>98% work order release accuracy and on-time readiness for manufacturing

People Leadership

Positive engagement and development feedback from direct report(s)

Career Pathway

This role is positioned as a

pivotal leadership role in site-based planning

with clear development pathways, including:


Senior Planning Manager - Site or Region Planning Excellence or Capacity Optimisation Lead Supply Planning Manager (end-to-end orchestration)
With exposure to mid/long-term planning, transformation initiatives, and leadership development, the Production Planning Manager role serves as a

launchpad into enterprise-wide supply chain leadership

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Please note you will be required to be in the office 4 days a week.

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Joining us is more than saying "yes" to making the world a healthier place. It's discovering a career that's challenging, supportive and inspiring. Where a culture driven by excellence helps you not only meet your goals, but also create new ones. We focus on creating a diverse and inclusive culture, encouraging individual expression in the workplace and thrive on the innovative ideas this generates. If this sounds like the workplace for you, apply now! We commit to respond to every applicant.