• Disciplinary and/or functional management of employees • Responsible for budget planning and tracking in the assigned area • Strategically developing the PE department further with a focus on lean production (identifying improvements, recording the areas of potential identified in a roadmap, defining priorities) in coordination with the Production Manager • Achieving the 1-5-year targets (i.e. defining the targets, measures and priorities for achieving the 1-5-year targets) • Implementing and complying with the specified production standards, incl. reporting KPIs to the BUs and CUs • Creating and managing the master data for the following: bill of materials, material master, routing, work center, equipment • Determining production data for creating bills of material and work plans • Analyzing discrepancies between production and the ERP system and drawing up suitable action plans • Assisting with CIP projects • Drawing up the preliminary calculation and standard price calculations • Drawing up action plans to improve KPIs • Acting as a point of contact for the CU in the plant • Coordinating issues that affect multiple BUs in the plant • Escalating matters to the CUs/BUs • Coordinating measures to optimize the Production Order Variance • Coordinating the roll-out of PDA systems in the plant • Determining process data for creating and managing master data • Other duties, as assigned