Production Planner

Ready for the first or second step in your career? Do you enjoy planning, coordinating, and truly making a difference in a technical production environment? Then become a Production Planner at Neways!

Summary

Together with the Shopfloor Control team, you are the link between production and logistics. Logistics is your internal customer, and you ensure an optimal scheduling of production orders within our factory.

In short: a dynamic role in which you are operationally responsible while also providing direction to the team.

In this position, as a Production Planner, you and your direct colleagues are operationally responsible for creating the production schedule, supporting the various customer teams that each manage their own customer group. Your day starts with a morning meeting on the production floor, followed by discussions with the production team leaders and unit managers. From there, you review the priorities for the day and begin building the schedule.

You will frequently coordinate with the Customer Support Planners, who represent the customer internally. They know what the customer needs, and you translate that into a solid production plan. In addition to your operational tasks, you will also participate in improvement teams to continuously optimize our processes.

This is what we offer

A challenging and varied role in a dynamic high-tech environment. You'll join an organization where people are paramount and personal contact is essential. We believe it's important that you can continue to develop and therefore offer plenty of room for personal growth and initiative. You'll work in a diverse and committed team, with a pleasant and open work environment.

You can also count on:

• A good salary aligned with your knowledge and experience.
• 27 vacation days, plus 13 additional ADV days.
• Flexible start and end times.
• A solid pension scheme.
• Travel expense reimbursement.
• Room for personal development.

This is what you bring to the team

• A completed MBO/HBO education in a logistics or (technical) business administration field.
• 0-2 years of experience as a production planner in a similar industry or recent graduate who is motivated and enthusiastic about working on planning a production environment.
• You are decisive and work in a structured, methodical way.
• Excellent communication skills, both in Dutch and English.
• You are goal‑oriented and have strong problem‑solving abilities.
• You easily connect with others, are not afraid to speak up, and enjoy collaborating on improvements.

Your daily responsibilities include

• Checking the progress of production orders.
• Acting as the point of contact for and with the customer teams in case of changing customer demand or shifting priorities.
• Proposing improvements to optimize the planning process and participating in improvement projects.
• Steering production through a solid production plan and discussing progress.
• Aligning short‑term production capacity issues with team leaders.

(Y)our work changes lives

At Neways, we work to solve today’s and tomorrow’s challenges with cutting-edge high-tech innovations. You work with the brightest talents from all over the world. Highly motivated professionals who want to make a difference. Just like you. Together, we create solutions that improve the lives of people all over the world. That’s why (y)our work changes the way we live, work and play.