With over 80 years as an industrial technology leader, Kennametal Inc. delivers productivity to customers through materials science, tooling and wear-resistant solutions. Customers across aerospace and defense, earthworks, energy, general engineering and transportation turn to Kennametal to help them manufacture with precision and efficiency. Every day approximately 8,700 employees are helping customers in nearly 100 countries stay competitive. Kennametal generated $2.1 billion in revenues in fiscal 2023. Learn more at www.kennametal.com. Follow @Kennametal: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. Job Title:- Manager – Manufacturing (Production Planning) Location:-  Bangalore Strengthen planning , and coordination between various departments and maintain a robust planning l System and ensure that plan is achieved.in line with targets. This role plays a pivotal role in maintaining and improving the overall customer satisfaction metric of OTP/OTP/Lead time of plant within the manufacturing organization at KIL .The goal is to create a culture of good planning and execution in the plant. Key Job Responsibilities:- Hands on experience in managing planning department in line with customer requirements. Conversant with SAP transactions and line balancing ,capacity analysis and lean tools related to planning like VSM,STD WORKS ETC.., Coordinate with vendors ,Sales and Other departments like purchase,stores,pu1 etc and ensure RAW materials are planned in line with requirements. Leading the planning team to meet the plant objectives like OTP, LT, OTD, Back orders etc. Understand entire manufacturing process and handle new enquiries and book orders with correct process routings and costing.. Ensuring process routing and costing and drg changes with route cards. Vendor process & quality audits. Ability to understand and follow /implement all production requirements and support production wherever required.. Reviewing the Plant loading and change lead times based on capacity and have regular communication with sales, design and other departments. Interacting with cross functional teams for new product developments. Good knowledge of SAP working . Education/Work Experience & Skills:- Bachelor’s Degree of engineering in mechanical Engineering. Should have 10 to 15 years of working experience in planning department from engg / process industry. Should be a good knowledge of SAP systems. Actively engaged in working with cross functional teams including internal and external vendors/customers. Having good collaboration, communication skills by maintaining strong interpersonal relations with all stake holders. Ability to deal with and establish rapport and trust at all levels. Experience in working in fast moving, technical business environment . Should have a strategic approach in dealing with problem solving. Should have led a team who are directly reporting to him. Should have experience in working in a unionized working environment. Equal Opportunity Employer