Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Production Planning & Scheduling
- Coordinate daily production schedules across manufacturing departments to achieve customer delivery commitments and operational efficiency goals.
- Analyze workload, labor availability, machine capacity, inventory levels, and material constraints to determine production priorities.
- Evaluate conflicting production demands and recommend schedule adjustments based on business impact, customer commitments, and available resources.
- Monitor order progress and take corrective action to address schedule risks and bottlenecks.
- Facilitate communication between production supervisors, planners, customer service, purchasing, and quality personnel regarding priority changes and schedule modifications.
- Serve as the point of contact for EDI customers related to priority order scheduling and following the process through production to delivery.
- Determines day-to-day production order priorities within established business guidelines.
- Recommends schedule modifications, inventory allocation decisions, and resource prioritization based on operational requirements.
- Identifies and resolves production control issues that may impact customer deliveries, inventory investment, or manufacturing performance.
ERP and Production Control Management
- Maintain integrity of production planning data within the ERP system.
- Review and resolve work order exceptions, shortages, routing discrepancies, transaction issues, and planning system errors.
- Determine appropriate actions for order releases, rescheduling, reallocating inventory, or modifying production priorities.
- Develop and implement improvements to work order processing and production control procedures.
- Analyze system-generated planning recommendations and determine appropriate execution strategies.
Operational Analysis and Continuous Improvement
- Analyze key production metrics, including schedule attainment, throughput, on-time delivery performance, work-in-process inventory, and resource utilization.
- Identify production flow constraints and recommend corrective actions to management.
- Lead or participate in process improvement initiatives designed to improve manufacturing efficiency and customer service performance.
- Develop reports and recommendations for operations leadership regarding production performance and scheduling effectiveness.
Cross-Functional Coordination
- Serve as primary coordinator for resolving production and scheduling conflicts among departments.
- Work with purchasing to address material shortages and develop recovery plans.
- Collaborate with customer service regarding delivery commitments and order priorities.
- Coordinate with quality and engineering teams when production issues impact customer requirements or manufacturing schedules.
- Support management in capacity planning and workforce utilization decisions.
Leadership Support
- Provide recommendations to management regarding production priorities and resource allocation.
- Assist in developing standard operating procedures related to production planning and order management.
- Train users on ERP and production control processes as needed.
- Act as a subject matter resource for production control and work order management practices.
- Follow established quality, safety, and company policies and procedures.
- Perform other production and operational support duties as assigned.