Position Summary:

This position is responsible for evaluating the strategic needs of the business as relative to resource planning and developing strategic schedules to optimize manpower, machinery, and materials utilization while ensuring the timely completion of established priorities as defined by our customers’ requirements.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and effectively communicate a master schedule and operations plan using ERP data and capacity planning techniques
• Create and communicate daily production work priorities/schedules and revisions as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements for the facility
• Monitor performance towards established production plans and communicates relevant project information to other departments as appropriate
• Resolve schedule conflicts as they arise and prepare project recovery schedules as needed
• Develop and manage capacity planning (manpower, machinery, and materials) and scheduling tools to help identify capacity constraints
• Monitor forward load reports and schedules to recommend overtime and staffing levels for affected work areas
• Manage MRP process to convert demands into production supply orders
• Report to management and across business functions for routine planning updates as well as anticipated constraints or interruptions in the plan
• Ensure product availability for on-time shipments of all customer orders as required by sales and maintains accurate and precise constraint schedules to guarantee the highest level of throughput is realized
• Develop and monitor reporting to measure actual to planned performance
• Additional duties as assigned

Primary Focus:  

Evaluate strategic needs, develop best practices and implement across operations. 

Ensure site meets or exceeds production schedule.

Position Requirements:

Education: 

• Associate’s or bachelor’s degree in Business or related field or combination of education and experience preferred
• APICS certification preferred

Experience:

• 5 years manufacturing production planning experience with at least 2 years in master scheduling
• Experience and knowledge of ERP / MRP systems (preferably Epicor Vantage)

Skills & Abilities:

• Strong planning, organizational, analytical and leadership skills
• Fluent in all Microsoft Office applications
• Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within the planning and production control fields
• A results-driven attitude with a track record for successful outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to effectively interact and influence personnel of various levels and disciplines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate objectives and develop recommendations for strategies
• Basic knowledge in reading fabrication prints
• Must be a team player that is willing to cooperate with and consider input from co-workers and members from other areas of the business
• Willingness to work overtime and weekends as needed
• Regular and timely attendance is required

Physical Requirements:

• Demonstrated ability to work with frequent interruptions in work flow and constantly changing priorities.
• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for extended periods of time with the ability to move throughout the office or outside manufacturing plant as needed.  May be required to lift up to 10 pounds occasionally
• Must be able to perform physical activities that require use of fingers, hands and arms, such as sitting, typing, using office equipment and reaching.  Some additional physical activities may require walking, stooping, bending, twisting and handling of materials.
• Position requires manual dexterity, arm-hand steadiness and a safety-minded individual. 
• Must have the ability to concentrate on tasks for long periods of time and be able to observe and receive information from all relevant sources.
• Must be able to communicate verbally and in writing as well as answer telephones and greet customers.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data, transcribing, viewing a computer terminal, extensive reading, visual inspection for errors

Sabre Wide Cultural Elements:

Care:  Cares about our customer, each other and the product/outcome they deliver

Curious:  Leads with questions to understand the how and why so that we can improve

Compete:  Competes with a passion to achieve uncommon results