Planner (Service Operations)

About the role

Responsible for coordinating and optimizing the deployment of field service engineers, tools, and resources to ensure timely execution of service activities, including preventive maintenance, installations and field change orders. This role plays a key part in ensuring high service quality, operational efficiency, and adherence to service level agreements (SLAs) by working closely with customer service, delivery teams, and field engineers. The Resource Planner will also support KPI tracking, case resolution, and continuous process improvement to enhance overall service performance.

Key responsibilities

• Plan and schedule field service engineers for all service related events, e.g. preventive maintenance (PM), installations, and field change orders (FCO)
• Ensure preventive maintenance activities are scheduled and completed within contract timelines and grace periods
• Update installed base records to support future maintenance planning
• Handle incoming service requests via hotline and emails
• Log incidents and service requests accurately in CRM system (ServiceMax)
• Verify customer entitlement and service coverage prior to planning activities
• Monitor and follow up on service cases to ensure timely completion within SLA
• Proactively track and manage operational KPIs relating to planning
• Manage tools allocation and distribution to field engineers
• Identify and resolve exceptions in work orders and service cases

Skills needed:

Possess good communication and interpersonal skills.

At least 2 years of relevant experience

Proficient in SAP, MS Office Applications and possess good knowledge of Excel (Pivot table and vlookup)

Able to multi-task in fast pace environment

Positive attitude, the enthusiasm to learn and the ability to work in a team