Assistant, Planning

Description

Job Summary: Planning Assistant responsible for generating and ensuring the consistency and accuracy of planning, production reports, and production logs, and supporting production units. Key Highlights: 1. Technical, collaborative environment focused on innovation and sustainability. 2. Access to professional development and continuous training. 3. Inclusive organizational culture emphasizing safety and wellbeing. Our world depends on rocks, minerals, metals and other raw materials – the building blocks of modern society. As an industry leader, Metso helps transform these essential materials to enable sustainable modern life. Our solutions and services support everything from renewable energy and electrification to the infrastructure and digital economy shaping our future. Together, we help our customers meet growing demand while driving the industry toward a more sustainable use of the earth’s natural resources. Join nearly 18,000 Metsonites worldwide, each bringing unique expertise and experience to positive change. At Metso, you’re supported by a growth culture built on safety, wellbeing, inclusion and collaboration. This is your opportunity to make an impact and rise above the possible. **Job posting end date:** Metso believes diversity and equal opportunity are key drivers for strengthening innovation and collaboration. We welcome all individuals interested in applying for the Assistant, Planning position, and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace throughout the selection process. Our selection criteria are based solely on professional competencies and skills. This job posting complies with Law 21.015, which promotes the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the labor market. Job Purpose Generate and ensure the consistency and accuracy of planning, production reports, and production logs. Review existing information to facilitate decision-making, while keeping information up to date to support production units—both in identifying, tracking critical management points and deviations, jointly addressing them with production units to overcome them, and supporting evaluation. **To succeed, you must meet the following requirements:** **Education:** Bachelor of Engineering, Industrial Civil Engineering, Industrial Management Engineering, Technical Diploma, or related fields. **Experience:** Minimum 2 years in similar roles. **Knowledge:** Replacement models, demand analysis and forecasting. Inventory and production planning. Computer literacy, Office (advanced Excel). Advanced SAP MRP. Intermediate English. **Key Responsibilities:** Core Functions — PPDS Planning Execute and supervise finite production planning in SAP’s PPDS module, initially focusing on the press area. Create and adjust short- and medium-term production plans, considering available capacity, operational constraints, and delivery priorities. Sequence production orders to optimize resource utilization according to heuristics, prioritization rules, and system alerts. Analyze and resolve capacity conflicts, including overload, underload, over-pressurization, and pressure deviation scenarios. Generate production plans from SAP for all work centers, ensuring alignment with actual demand. Review and validate current actual demand, considering all open work orders and planned production orders. Create production orders for rework and scrap when required by production. Management Functions — PPDS Master Data Maintain and validate PPDS master planning data in SAP, including resources, shifts, and capacities (transaction CR02). Coordinate with Engineering (MLE and ME) and Production teams on required master data changes, ensuring system data integrity. Execution and Monitoring Functions Release production orders per the approved plan, managing the status transition from PLD to CRTD. Replan promptly in response to material shortages, maintenance issues, or priority changes, communicating impacts to relevant areas. Coordinate planning with Procurement, Logistics, MLE, and ME to ensure alignment between demand and available resources. **Monitor and report planning KPIs:** plan adherence, capacity utilization, on-time delivery (OTD), and lead time. Become familiar with and comply with Quality, Safety, Occupational Health, and Environmental standards as defined in internal documentation, legal requirements, and organizational mandates. With respect to tasks in which you are involved, comply with procedures required for accreditation, certification, and maintenance of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OSHAS 18001, and Ch3262 (Gender Equality and Work-Life-Family-Personal Balance) standards. **We Offer:** A highly technical, collaborative environment focused on innovation and sustainability. Access to professional development initiatives, continuous training, and internal mobility. An inclusive organizational culture oriented toward safety, wellbeing, and personal growth. Benefits supporting physical and mental wellbeing, plus performance recognition. Interaction with multidisciplinary teams and specialists across diverse disciplines and contexts. A friendly, respectful environment that values high ambition, places customers at the center of everything we do, fosters teamwork, and encourages open and honest communication. We offer an exceptional environment combining a respectful, results-oriented culture. Metso is committed to pay equity and transparent reward practices globally. Compensation information is shared in line with local legislation and applicable recruitment practices. How to join \- Working at Metso \- About Metso \- Diversity and Inclusion \- Meet our people Metso is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran or status as a qualified individual with a disability. Metso is a frontrunner in sustainable technologies, end\-to\-end solutions and services for the aggregates, minerals processing and metals refining industries globally. We improve our customers’ energy and water efficiency, increase their productivity, and reduce environmental risks with our product and service expertise. We are the partner for positive change. Metso is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. At the end of 2025 Metso had close to 18,000 employees in around 50 countries, and sales in 2025 were about EUR 5\.3 billion. Metso is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki. metso.com