Production Planning and Optimization Coordinator

6 days ago

East Hartford, Connecticut, United States HORST ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING CO Full time

Job Overview

HORST ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING CO is seeking a highly skilled Production Planning and Optimization Coordinator to join our team. This role plays a critical part in ensuring the smooth operation of our manufacturing processes.

Estimated Salary:$65,000 - $85,000 per year

About the Role

The Production Planning and Optimization Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating, monitoring, and improving production flow. This includes creating and establishing production planning processes through cross-functional collaboration with sales, engineering, purchasing, quality, and manufacturing teams.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Create daily production schedules that optimize capacity utilization, raw material allocation, work-in-progress (WIP), and finished goods inventory levels.
  • Establish planning controls and inventory levels that can accommodate forecast fluctuations, with keen attention to production lot sizes.
  • C coordinated and monitored daily performance, production output, scheduling commitments, inventory cycle counts, on-time releases, overdue releases, etc.
  • Manage material requirement planning data and issue job travelers (routers) to the production floor that optimize manpower, machinery utilization, and inventory levels.
  • Plan work orders for manufacturing with respect to customer demand and subcontract (OV) cost (lot charges vs piece prices), monitor over/under production.
  • Create expedite job completion timelines for external customers. Communicate any changes in schedule or delivery dates to all affected parties.
  • Ensure sufficient supplies of parts and materials are available.
  • Loading shop floor planner in ERP when releasing job routers.
  • Interface effectively with internal and external customers and support teams.
  • Provide input during development of production schedules and associated costs.
  • Assess need for and implement corrective action on an ongoing basis. Inform management, purchasing, manufacturing, and customer service of schedule slippages, bottlenecks, or other problem areas in a timely manner.

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you will need:

  • An Associate's Degree in a manufacturing or engineering-related field
  • TWO years of scheduling, planning, and/or inventory control experience in a manufacturing environment involving machining or similar processes.
  • Prior ERP/MRP experience. Use of Epicor ERP is a plus.
  • Strong MS Office skills (Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.)
  • Strong organizational, verbal, and interpersonal skills.
  • A proven ability to apply lean enterprise principals to eliminate waste.
  • The ability to work under stringent deadlines and have a sense of urgency.
  • The ability to work in a team environment.
  • Previous Sales-Inventory-Operation-Planning SIOP (S&OP) methodology knowledge a plus.

Physical Requirements

This role requires:

  • The ability to sit, stand, and walk for long periods of time.
  • The ability to lift at least 50 lbs.
  • The ability to push, pull

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