Summary: Under the supervision of the Plant Manager, the Production Coordinator/Scheduler is responsible for scheduling the production of Company products to meet customer delivery requirements.
Education/Equivalent: Education equivalent to a high school diploma is required and some college is preferred.
Work Experience Needed: 5 years’ scheduling experience in a manufacturing environment is required.
Knowledge/Special Skills/Abilities Needed:
- Requires strong interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with customers, the public, employees, staff, and management.
- Basic computer skills: Excel, Word and PowerPoint. ERP experience a plus (Odyssey).
- Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Must possess basic mathematical skills.
- Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
Nature & Scope-Principal Areas of Responsibilities:
The list of duties and responsibilities is not all inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as management may deem necessary from time to time.
- Responsible for maintaining On-Time Delivery goal (>90%).
- Enters daily production (Odyssey).
- Acknowledges all new customer orders that have been entered by order entry.
- Responsible for creating requisitions for outside cores.
- Maintains weekly mold schedule (mold schedule by week).
- Communicates with customers and provides order and delivery information as needed.
- Leads weekly Stop Meetings.
- Manage shipment of products to customers and outside vendors.
- Coordinate product flow to ensure OTD.
- Participates in daily scrap meetings.
- Identify areas for improvement
Essential Functions:
Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or touch, talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, sit and walk. The employee is occasionally required to reach above shoulders, climb or balance and use foot/feet to operate a forklift. The employee occasionally is required to lift and/or move items up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to fumes or airborne particles. The employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts, occasionally is exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals and outdoor weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
This position description is intended for the purpose of position evaluation and salary positioning and is not a contract setting forth the full scope of employment. The employer retains the right to deviate from the description at its discretion, without notice.
The above statements reflect the general details necessary to describe the principal functions of the occupation described and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be inherent in the occupation.
