Line Planner

As a line planner, you are the connecting link between customer demand and production. You work in a central department within the organization and ensure that production schedules align optimally with market demand, available capacity, and existing stock. You monitor product availability and ensure that customer orders can be delivered as agreed. In doing so, you continuously coordinate with various internal disciplines to find the right balance between capacity, material availability, and delivery reliability. By looking ahead, setting priorities, and adjusting in a timely manner, you make an important contribution to a smooth production process.

In this role, you ensure that production and demand align optimally. Your responsibilities include, among others:

• Creating production schedules based on customer demand, available capacity, and inventory levels.
• Optimizing production schedules to achieve efficient and reliable execution.
• Monitoring the timely availability of products so that customer orders can be delivered as agreed.
• Coordinating with production, logistics, customer service, and purchasing regarding capacity, materials, and priorities.
• Ensuring sufficient availability of raw materials and auxiliary materials.
• Timely calling off required raw materials and auxiliary materials.
• Identifying bottlenecks and contributing to solutions that support delivery reliability.

• Your position

  As a line planner, you are the connecting link between customer demand and production. You work in a central department within the organization and ensure that production schedules align optimally with market demand, available capacity and current inventories.

  You monitor product availability and ensure that customer orders can be delivered as agreed. In doing so, you continuously coordinate with various internal disciplines to find the right balance between capacity, material availability and delivery reliability. By looking ahead, setting priorities and making timely adjustments, you make an important contribution to a smooth production process.

  Your impact

  In this role, you ensure that production and demand align optimally. Your responsibilities include, among other things:

  • Drawing up production schedules based on customer demand, available capacity and stock levels.
  • Optimizing production schedules to achieve efficient and reliable execution.
  • Monitoring the timely availability of products so that customer orders can be delivered as agreed.
  • Coordinating with production, logistics, customer service and purchasing on capacity, materials and priorities.
  • Ensuring sufficient availability of raw materials and auxiliary materials.
  • Calling off the required raw materials and auxiliary materials in good time.
  • Identifying bottlenecks and contributing to solutions that support delivery reliability.
  Team & work environment

  You work closely with colleagues from production, logistics, customer service and purchasing. In this environment, good communication is essential. You are in constant contact with various stakeholders and ensure that information is shared in a timely manner, so that processes continue to run smoothly.

  You will join an organization where collaboration, responsibility and development are important. Within your role, you are given the space to contribute ideas about improvements and you actively contribute to efficient planning and reliable service to customers.

  Who you are

  You are someone who likes structure and enjoys creating overview in a dynamic environment. You are able to analyze information well and translate data and signals into a realistic and feasible schedule. In doing so, you work accurately and keep a cool head even under pressure.

  You have strong communication skills and know how to build connections with different colleagues and departments. Thanks to your proactive attitude and structured way of working, you ensure that coordination runs smoothly and agreements are honored.

  In addition, you recognize yourself in the following qualities:

  • Strong analytical skills and able to identify connections.
  • Systematic and structured in your approach.
  • Accurate in processing and monitoring information.
  • Stress-resistant when priorities change.
  • Communicatively skilled and focused on collaboration.
  • Responsible and results-oriented.
  Your capabilities
  • A completed degree at least at higher professional education (hbo) level.
  • Preferably a degree in the direction of (technical) Business Administration, Economics or Logistics.
  • Strong analytical skills.
  • Experience working in a planning-based and structured environment.
  • The ability to maintain overview and set priorities.
  • Good communication skills.
  • Good command of the Dutch language.
  • Good command of the English language.
  • Accuracy and a structured working style.
  • Experience with planning software and ERP systems, preferably SAP, is an advantage.
  What Avebe offers

  At Avebe, you are given the space to help build an organization that is ready for the future.
  
  You can count on:
  • A salary within scale 9 (€4,051 - €4,958); after 1 year it is converted into a permanent contract.
  • A step up within your scale every year.
  • Our own collective labor agreement (CAO) and the Avebe pension fund.
  • Plenty of room for your own input and initiative.
  • Discounts on fitness and bicycles.
  • A reimbursement of €50 per month for your health insurance.
  • Travel allowance of €0.23 per kilometer (max 100 kilometers) & work-from-home allowance.
  • Laptop and mobile phone.
  • 24 vacation days + 11 ADV days. In addition, you have the option to purchase additional ADV days.
  • Collective discount.

You are someone who loves structure and enjoys creating overview in a dynamic environment. You can analyze information well and translate data and signals into a realistic and achievable plan. In doing so, you work accurately and keep a cool head even under pressure. You have strong communication skills and know how to build connections with various colleagues and departments. Through your proactive attitude and structured way of working, you ensure that coordination runs smoothly and agreements are met. Additionally, you recognize yourself in the following characteristics:

• Strong analytically and able to make connections.
• Systematic and structured in your approach.
• Accurate in processing and monitoring information.
• Resilient to stress when priorities change.
• Communicatively skilled and focused on collaboration.
• Responsible and result-oriented.

• A completed education at least at HBO (higher professional education) level.
• Preferably an education in the direction of (technical) Business Administration, Economics, or Logistics.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Experience working in a planned and structured environment.
• The ability to maintain an overview and set priorities.
• Good communication skills.
• Good command of the Dutch language.
• Good command of the English language.
• Accuracy and a structured working style.
• Experience with planning software and ERP systems, preferably SAP, is a plus.

At Avebe, you get the space to build an organization that is ready for the future.

You can count on:
• A salary within scale 9 (€4,051 - €4,958), which will be converted to a permanent contract after 1 year.
• One step up within your scale every year.
• A dedicated CAO (collective labor agreement) and Avebe pension fund.
• Plenty of room for your own input and initiative.
• Discounts on fitness and bicycles.
• An allowance of €50 per month for your health insurance.
• Mileage allowance of €0.23 per kilometer (max 100 kilometers) & home office allowance.
• Laptop and mobile phone.
• 24 vacation days + 11 ADV days. Additionally, you have the possibility to purchase more ADV days.
• Collective discount.