Production Planner-Iksan

Role summary

Production Planner-Iksan is a role at Veolia Environnement SA in Iksan-si, South Korea (on-site). Posted 2026-09-02. Experience level: 5-10.

Job title

Production Planner-Iksan

Company

Veolia Environnement SA

Location

Iksan-si, South Korea

Work arrangement

on-site

Category

Software Engineering

Experience level

5-10

Date posted

2026-09-02

Job description

Company Description

About Veolia

Veolia group aims to be the benchmark company for ecological transformation. In 2022, with nearly 220,000 employees worldwide, the Group designs and provides game-changing solutions that are both useful and practical for water, waste and energy management. Through its three complementary business activities, Veolia helps to develop access to resources, preserve available resources, and replenish them. In 2021, the Veolia group supplied 79 million people with drinking water and 61 million people with wastewater service, produced nearly 48 million megawatt hours of energy and treated 48 million metric tons of waste.

Job Description

Primary Responsibilities:

The Production Planner coordinates, plans and manages the production schedule for the Suez Water Technologies & Solutions manufacturing facility or toller, and develops initiatives to improve inventory levels, minimise scrap/waste and slow moving non-moving materials.

The Production Planner will not only participate, but take a lead role in continuous improvement activities of diverse scope and complexity to improve the efficiency of planning to meet customer demand. In addition, they will monitor production progress and identify possible problem areas in time to take corrective action and meet the customer OTD.

You will be required to focus on achieving performance objectives which are in line with the organisation’s vision and overcome those obstacles that may inhibit Suez from achieving these business goals.

You are required to:

Investigate and develop new avenues to achieve optimum production and throughput

Accurately monitor and maintain production schedules to satisfy customer orders and forecasts

Coordinate with the Commercial team to maintain a strong demand planning rigor

Manage planning performance by addressing day-to-day issues and adjust operations to meet changing demands

As the Production Planner, it is expected that you continuously raise the standard of your plant/site performance by developing, inspiring, challenging and demonstrating operational excellence for the region.

This critical role has the following key accountabilities:

Plan, schedule, coordinate and approve release of process orders to manufacturing based on material and capacity availability.

Provide input to management; reschedule and/or interface with customer service, PSI, customers and operations to reschedule production in the event of demand changes, labour and material shortages, backlogs and other potential schedule interruptions.

Utilise the current SAP system and worksheets that support production planning, capacity planning, and operational management.

Analyse customer demand information, forecasts, customer orders, vessel optimisation, labour and material availability and develop a flexible yet efficient production schedule.

Review MRP prompts, demand plans, Inventory reports to determine what changes need to be made to the schedule to accommodate latest demand change with balance between production optimisation and inventory levels.

Create and maintain production plans while considering the raw materials and resources available to manufacture products by the customer required dates.

Perform the detail capacity planning on constraints on equipment, labour, and vessel space; review the scheduled load and compare it to available tank or toller capacities and adjust the schedule to alternative with maximum capacity optimisation.

Manage and update the production schedule based on demand and availability of Raw Materials

Work with Sourcing to coordinate the timing of materials required to be delivered

Work with Production/Toller to ensure the planned schedule is executed efficiently and meets current demand

Analyse inventory levels associated to production in comparison to demand variation and future forecast to determine best combination of raw materials and reasonable stocks.

Participate in daily production review meeting on production to track output and issues in real-time; interact with Supply Chain team on a daily basis to resolve issue regarding production schedules and adjust schedule upon latest change to meet service requirement by minimised interruption

Provide suggestions to Production Manager, PSI, Supply Chain leaders on process improvements

EHS, Quality and compliance

Challenge and influence others on Safety and Compliance standards.

Contribute to culture of continuous improvement, open communication and learning.

Demonstrate active safety, quality & environmental leadership and take ownership / responsibility

Build and maintain a risk management culture by forming positive relationships with Safety, Quality, Environment, Community with all stakeholders

Demonstrate a commitment to continually improving quality, environment, health and safety performance.

Become familiar with and abide by all applicable Suez policies and guidelines, and relevant statutory obligations and ensure comprehensive permit compliance for the facility and region.

Developing and leading by example on a positive safety culture that drives down the number of recordable incidents and accidents, as well as first aids.

Report all occupational injury, illness, near miss incidents, environmental spills, and quality issues regardless of its severity.

Core Duties

Production Control

Monitor & review production plan/progress against deadline targets to ensure on time delivery.

Adjust the production schedule as required and communicate any change to delivery date with the PSI, commercial team, and customer service accordingly.

Ensure that all production related activity is value added & cost effective.

Be capable of translating the production plan into a time-phased planning schedule.

Implement the most cost effective bills of material (BOM’s) are used as part of the production of finished goods

Utilise supply chain methodologies to ensure accurate and timely prod