Flexsis Lausanne Industrie
Crissier
Planning and Scheduling Agent 80/100%
- 26 October 2026
- 100%
- Permanent position
- Crissier
About the job
Flexsis is a major player in recruitment in Switzerland, offering extensive expertise and comprehensive national coverage (French-speaking Switzerland, Ticino or German-speaking Switzerland).
Planning and Scheduling Agent 80/100%
Company Description
Our client is a Swiss company operating in the industrial sector, specialising in production and manufacturing activities. Committed to ensuring the quality of its products, meeting deadlines and optimising its processes, it relies on a rigorous organisation and close collaboration between its various departments. As part of strengthening its Production department, our client is looking for a Planning and Scheduling Agent at 80-100% to ensure the coordination and optimisation of manufacturing flows.
Job Description
Reporting to the Development and Production Manager, the planning agent’s mission is to develop, update and manage production plans based on customer orders, forecasts, priorities and available capacities.
They schedule and launch manufacturing orders taking into account constraints related to workload and resources. They monitor production progress, adjust planning according to contingencies, urgencies or observed discrepancies, and ensure compliance with manufacturing deadlines. They coordinate priorities with production, procurement, logistics, quality and sales teams, notably to confirm deadlines with customers. They identify, report and contribute to managing risks that may impact production deadlines, while ensuring regular communication with all stakeholders in the manufacturing flow. Finally, they participate in the reliability of planning data and the continuous improvement of associated processes.
Profile Sought
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
- Planning and scheduling: develop, adjust and monitor production plans as well as manufacturing orders according to priorities and constraints.
- Mastery of ERP and analysis tools: exploit, ensure reliability and analyse order, stock, capacity, deadline and planning parameter data.
- Knowledge of production processes: understand industrial flows, machine capacities, human resources, tooling, manufacturing times and components.
- Management of procurement, stocks and capacities: anticipate needs and risks of shortages, identify overloads or bottlenecks, and adjust schedules.
- Monitoring and cross-functional coordination: track production progress, manage contingencies and collaborate with production, logistics, quality, maintenance and sales teams to confirm and secure delivery deadlines.
- Continuous improvement: contribute to optimising planning parameters, data quality and planning and scheduling processes.
PERSONAL SKILLS:
- Organisation, rigour and sense of priorities: simultaneously manage manufacturing orders, constraints and urgencies while ensuring the reliability of schedules and ERP data.
- Responsiveness and adaptability: quickly adjust priorities and actions in response to production contingencies, supplier delays or urgent requests.
- Communication and team spirit: clearly convey priorities and risks, coordinate the relevant departments and contribute to finding appropriate solutions.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
- Excellent command of French, the working language
- Clean criminal record and debt enforcement office extract
BASIC EDUCATION:
- Technical, industrial or logistics federal vocational certificate (CFC), or equivalent training, with experience in planning/scheduling in an industrial environment
