Planning Coordinator

The Planning Coordinator plays a key role in securing the operational performance and delivery commitments of the Business Unit Component across the Charleroi and Haren sites. The position ensures a clear, realistic, and shared view of production capabilities and short-term planning, acting as the central interface between operations, management, and commercial functions. By aligning capacity, workload, and priorities, the role directly supports on-time delivery, workload balancing, and decision-making at both operational and management levels.

Primary Responsibilities

Production Capability Management

• Create, maintain, and continuously update the production capability analysis for both CRL and HAR sites.
• Define and monitor available capacity based on resources, skills, equipment, and constraints.
• Identify capacity gaps, risks, and overload situations, and proactively propose mitigation actions.
• Ensure capability data is reliable, transparent, and shared with key stakeholders.

Production Planning & Scheduling

• Create, maintain, and monitor the day-to-day production planning for CRL and HAR sites.
• Translate workload demand into realistic and achievable short-term plans aligned with available capacity.
• Adjust planning priorities based on operational constraints, urgencies, and commercial commitments.
• Monitor plan adherence and highlight deviations, risks, and recovery actions.

Operational Performance & Visibility

• Provide clear visibility on workload, capacity utilization, and planning risks through structured reporting and KPIs.
• Support operational reviews by providing accurate data and forward-looking analyses.
• Contribute to lead-time control, backlog reduction, and workload leveling across sites.

Interface with Management & Commercial Functions

• Act as the key interface between operations and management/commercial teams.
• Support decision-making by assessing feasibility of new demand, priorities, and delivery commitments.
• Translate commercial requirements into operational plans and constraints into management-level insights.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve planning processes, tools, and data reliability.
• Contribute to harmonization of planning practices between CRL and HAR.
• Support initiatives aimed at improving robustness, predictability, and agility of the planning process.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Work closely with production, logistics, engineering, quality, and supply chain teams.
• Ensure alignment between capacity, material availability, and operational execution.

Required Skills

• Industrial Engineering Master Degree or equivalent.
• Experience in production planning, capacity management, or operational coordination in an industrial or aerospace environment.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into operational and management insights.
• Structured and methodical approach with strong planning and prioritization capabilities.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interact with both shop-floor and management stakeholders.
• Ability to manage complexity across multiple sites and balance short-term urgencies with mid-term vision.
• Proactive, solution-oriented mindset with a strong sense of ownership.
• Good knowledge of planning tools and ERP systems (SAP is a strong asset).
• Fluent in French or Dutch and English; knowledge of Dutch or French is mandatory #LI-CG1