Location: Georgetown, SC
Overview: Summary
Be a part of an exciting and growing team, building complex mechanical, electrical, and structural systems for use all over the world. We are currently seeking individuals who want to grow and learn as our business and needs continue to expand year after year. Driven individuals with proven performance will be considered. If you take pride in your profession and have high expectations of yourself and others, this is the opportunity for you.
Primary responsibilities:
- Supports and represent the Operation Manager’s intent, priority, and direction
- Plans, prepares, issues and controls master production schedules
- Demonstrates ownership, control, and awareness of the production schedule
- Demonstrates a proactive sense of urgency to maintain a near-real time production schedule at the discrete task level
- Maintains and anticipate the need for recurring schedule reporting, at both the milestone and discrete task levels, to support the cross-functional team, senior leadership, and the customer
- Comprehends the project lifecycle, process workflow, customer contract requirements, and their influence on resource requirements and the production schedule
- Facilitates clear communication throughout the cross-functional team to capture changes (status updates) that directly impact the production schedule
- Demonstrates a commanding ability to comprehend and evaluate the capabilities and constraints of available resources (manpower, footprint, equipment, material, etc) to effectively plan current and upcoming production efforts
- Facilitates schedule scenarios based on potential changes to available resources to evaluate and identify opportunities to improve the schedule based on organizational goals and changes in customer priorities
- Supports timely and accurate customer communication
- Coordinates with Project Management to ensure a controlled flow of approved materials timed to meet production requirement
- Advises management of the status of work in progress, material availability, and potential production problems to ensure that personnel, equipment, materials, and services are provided as needed
- Performs load leveling for limited resources.
- Analyze schedule data and prepare variance reports.
- Identify strategies to mitigate unfavorable variances and identify opportunities to improve schedule performance.
- Provide input and/or conduct the plan of the day including providing the short-term production schedule to plan the daily shop operations.
Required skills:
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Demonstrate strong decision making, mathematical, and analytical skills.
- Strong organizational and time management skills with ability to multi-task.
- Ability to work independently and within a team in a fast-paced environment with emphasis on accuracy and timeliness.
- Must have strong ethical values, professional attitude, and confidentiality.
- Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) and inputting and using an Enterprise Requirements Planning (ERP) system for planning and reporting.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Management, Industrial Management, Business Development, or a related field. 4 years of related exempt experience can be substituted for a Bachelor’s degree.
- Minimum of 4 years of experience in a planning, scheduling in a manufacturing environment.
- Must be a US Citizen or equivalent.
