Production Planner

We are looking for a Production Planner to strengthen the planning capability behind our growing production operations.

In this role, you will turn demand, customer priorities, available materials and production capacity into realistic and executable production schedules across operations. You will also maintain end-to-end visibility from sales order creation through production and quality to ready-to-ship status, coordinate closely with Sales and Finance, and support inventory and month-end routines.

What will you do:

• Build and maintain rolling monthly and weekly production plans
• Create detailed schedules across Growing and Manufacturing
• Balance production needs with available materials, capacity and lead times
• Coordinate dependencies between production stages, Shipping, Supply Chain and external production
• Identify bottlenecks, overloads and scheduling conflicts
• Prepare alternative production scenarios when circumstances change
• Monitor execution against plan and coordinate schedule updates
• Analyse plan-versus-actual performance and recurring delays
• Maintain production orders and schedules in ERP
• Improve production-planning routines, tools and reporting
• Act as the main operational point of contact for Sales enquiries and provide weekly updates on open orders, production status and expected ready-to-ship timing
• Track the full order cycle from sales order creation through production and quality to ready to ship
• Assist in admin work like creating reports, support finance with operations related tasks, work together with quality in organic audits, traceability etc.

What we are looking for:

• Experience in production planning, scheduling or manufacturing operations
• Good understanding of production flows, materials and capacity
• Experience with ERP
• Strong analytical and numerical skills
• Ability to build practical plans in a changing environment
• Strong coordination and communication skills
• Structured and proactive working style
• Fluent English
• Experience from process manufacturing, food, biotechnology or other batch-based production is an advantage
• Comfort working across Sales, Finance, Production, Quality and Supply Chain

Why join KÄÄPÄ?

You will have the opportunity to build planning practices that directly improve production stability, capacity utilisation and delivery reliability, and see the impact of your work every day.