Proxima Fusion
Production Planner
Munich. Posted 2 months ago
The role
The Production Planner will build and maintain medium- to long-term production plans that align engineering, procurement, and manufacturing. You will balance capacity, material availability, and evolving engineering requirements to enable predictable execution.
What you will do
- Translate project milestones into detailed, resourced and executable manufacturing plans.
- Perform capacity planning and balance workloads across internal and external manufacturing resources.
- Coordinate with the Procurement & Logistics Department to optimize inventory availability and material flow.
- Anticipate the impact of evolving engineering requirements and material constraints on the production plan.
- Work closely with Manufacturing Engineering to incorporate process changes into production plans.
- Partner with Program Managers to align production priorities with program objectives.
- Analyze production performance data to identify risks to material availability, capacity and delivery timelines.
- Monitor planning-level metrics such as capacity utilization and lead times.
- Support the design, implementation and continuous improvement of production planning systems and processes.
- Contribute to the development of scalable production planning processes.
Required qualifications
- Degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in production planning, manufacturing op
- Experience with production planning systems, MRP/ERP workflows and manufacturing data management.
- Ability to think in terms of capacity, material flow and constraints.
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
- Effective communication across multidisciplinary teams.
- Proactive and detail-oriented.
About the company
Proxima Fusion is Europe’s fastest-growing fusion company and the continent’s best-funded fusion player. They are developing the hardware and infrastructure needed to deliver the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant.