Production Scheduler at Tekni-plex in Holland, Ohio

Job Description:

Summary/Purpose: Responsible for scheduling plant production capacity with the objective of optimizing the use of human, machine, and material assets while maintaining on time order fulfillment.

Essential Job Responsibilities and Duties:

1. 
   Promotes worker safety by:
   
   
   
   1. Stresses safe working practices as a condition of employment to
   
   
   2. Assist in audits of employee behaviors to ensure compliance with safety rules and
   
   
   3. Participates actively on the plant-wide safety
   
   
   
   


2. Works in concert with Corporate Materials Procurement, plant supervision, and customer service to meet objectives of:
   
   
   
   1. On time order fulfillment
   
   
   2. Minimize product changeovers on machinery
   
   
   3. Maximize inventory turns. (FIFO, Min/Max Quantities)
   
   
   4. Calculates and maintains a current file of economic run quantities by sku.
   
   
   5. Participates in improvement projects such as, but not limited to:
   
   
   6. Increases in efficiency and line utilization.
   
   
   7. Changeover time reduction
   
   
   8. Increase run speeds
   
   
   9. Capital improvements
   
   
   10. Quality improvement-
   
   
   11. Waste Reduction (Material Usage Variances)
   
   
   12. Work with QC Manager, Process Manager and Procurement on new products, sample requests and customer related issues.
   
   
   13. Scheduling of all Lot Charges (sample orders) Research and Development test runs (manufacturing
   
   
   14. experiments) and Preventive Maintenance, including customer and internal Sales communications
   
   
   15. Tracking and reporting of KPI's for delivery performance.
   
   
   16. Manages monthly and annual Physical Inventory procedure.
   
   
   17. Ensures raw material and production orders are ordered and delivered on time to support production schedule
   
   
   18. Initiate material transfers from outside warehouses.
   
   
   19. Schedule production in most cost-effective manner, considering in-stock inventory, scheduled downtime, sales forecasts, in-house orders, manning and capacity constraints.
   
   
   20. Maintain communications with the proper disciplines (Forming, Extrusion, Maintenance, Supervision and Customer Service) to be ready to respond to any unscheduled changes or machine breakdowns.
   
   
   21. Maintain a daily scheduling status and communicate information to Customer Service and other departments as indicated.
   
   
   22. Assists with trafficking and routing approved LN Work Orders to production, quality, and shipping areas.
   
   
   
   

Non-Essential Job Duties: Performs other duties that may be assigned.

Job Qualifications, Equipment and/or Experience:

1. 
   Experience with direct responsibility for planning and scheduling resources within a complex manufacturing


2. Good interpersonal, organization and communication


3. Demonstrated ability to work with coworkers from various disciplines within the organization to accomplish


4. 
   Strong computer skills; demonstrated ability to learn and operate within a multi user MRP


5. Ability to operate and communicate effectively in person, over the telephone, and in groups, under normal and stressful conditions with customers, associates, and


6. Lean Six Sigma training or certification a


7. Prefer a Bachelor degree in related field.

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