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You’ll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together.
At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner—and every person here makes that happen. You’ll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.
Production Manager
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You will translate the production plan defined by the Operation Planner into an executable sequence of manufacturing orders. You will verify material readiness across the end-to-end flow, coordinate shortages and material call-offs, and provide Production with prioritized orders that have an appropriate level of component coverage.
Work model: #LI-Onsite
In this role, you’ll help run what runs the world by taking on meaningful work that drives real impact, as you will be accountable for:
Translating the production plan and agreed priorities into an operational schedule for assembly lines and work centers, maintaining alignment with the Master Production Schedule (MPS).
Creating and continuously updating the sequence of potentially producible orders based on system-confirmed availability of materials and components.
Assessing order readiness across the complete product scope, including medium-voltage switchgear, low-voltage compartments, purchased parts, internally manufactured components, and pre-assemblies.
Identifying orders that are not sufficiently mature from a material perspective, rescheduling them when necessary, and providing structured feedback to the Operation Planner on production-date impacts.
Monitoring material shortages for planned and scheduled orders and coordinating corrective actions with Material Planning, Logistics, work centers, pre-assembly areas, Procurement, and suppliers through the appropriate contacts.
Managing material call-offs from external warehouses through Pull Lists, Storeban, Kanban, and applicable transfer-order flows, ensuring alignment with production priorities and physical stock.
Monitoring internally produced parts and pre-assemblies, escalating delays to the responsible areas, following progress, and updating the production sequence when required.
Providing Production with the prioritized order list following the preliminary readiness check and incorporating feedback from the final physical “OK to Produce” verification.
Analyzing recurring shortages, inventory parameters, reorder quantities, stock coverage, and feeding logic to improve material availability while balancing inventory levels and factory storage capacity.
Contributing to the design, standardization, continuous improvement, and progressive automation of the scheduling process and its interfaces across Planning, Material Planning, Logistics, and Production.
Degree in Management Engineering, Industrial or Production Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or an equivalent technical-engineering discipline.
Experience in Production Planning, Scheduling, Material Planning, Supply Chain, or manufacturing operations is preferred; high-potential engineering profiles with strong learning agility may also be considered.
Knowledge of production planning and scheduling principles, including MRP, MPS, priority management, and material-coverage logic.
Experience with ERP/MRP systems, preferably SAP, and production-planning or scheduling tools.
Understanding of inventory control, shortage management, stock-coverage analysis, and material-flow processes.
Ability to analyze data, prepare reports, monitor KPIs, and use information to make timely operational decisions.
Knowledge of complex, multi-component, or engineer-to-order manufacturing environments is an advantage.
Structured problem-solving capability and a continuous-improvement mindset, with the ability to help build processes that are still evolving.
Strong organizational skills, pragmatism, autonomy, and the ability to manage multiple priorities and pressure in a dynamic manufacturing environment.
Effective communication and coordination skills across Operation Planning, Material Planning, Logistics, Production, work centers, and external supply interfaces.
Willingness to work closely with the shopfloor, understand the production process in detail, and act proactively to resolve constraints.
Good command of Italian and English, both written and spoken.
As part of our commitment to transparency, we want to share the compensation details for this position:
Applicable CBA: Metalmeccanico
Variable Pay: Eligible for Company Productivity Bonus
The offer will be tailored based on your role location, experience, skills and qualifications, internal market positioning and alignment with ABB internal standards.
Flexible working hours, hybrid work options, and a strong focus on work-life integration and Wellbeing support for employees and their families
Welfare plan with a wide range of personalized services
Canteen or meal vouchers provided
More about us
ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.
Join us. Be part of the team where progress happens, industries transform, and your work shapes the world.
Run What Runs the World.
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