Job responsibilities:

• Planning and scheduling the production of goods and services in order to meet customer demand and maximize efficiency.
• Develop and maintain production plans and schedules, coordinate with suppliers and customers, and ensure that production meets quality standards.
• Analyze production costs, monitor production performance, and track inventory levels to ensure that production meets demand.
• Training, motivating, and managing personnel to ensure that the production process is optimized.

Job tasks:

• Responsible for the coordination of production capacity and material planning, purchasing, warehousing, and scheduling activities to maximize machine build plan.
• Establish and implement methods and best practices related to the systems and process that support inventory forecasting, purchasing, material control, and scheduling.
• Leads organization key metrics including inventory turns, days on hand, on-time delivery, and schedule adherence.
• Understands department's key performance indicators and contributes to achieve these goals both individually and as a team.
• Partner with purchasing to develop and implement supplier strategies to ensure correct delivery, quality and supply flow of product from vendor.
• Manage and flex material demand and flow through Kanban and MRP allowing for fluctuation in forecast and managing the growth of the business while ensuring the timely availability of components.
• Forecast product needs by gathering, analyzing, and validating data
• Ability to develop, maintain and strengthen partnerships with others inside and outside of the organization.
• Maintains a safe and healthy work environment by implementing, maintaining and aligning company policies with health and safety regulations.
• Measures and evaluates direct reporting employee performance according to company standards for quality and productivity. Provides accurate, meaningful, and timely reviews.

Authority:

• Departments KPIs
• Sales and Operations planning
• Budget data preparation

KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS

Required professional education and specific knowledge or skills:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in production control and/or inventory management

Required foreign languages and level of knowledge:

English

Use of IT systems:

SAP - Required

Required knowledge of specific technology, processes and work procedures:

Lean, Kanban, Material and Production planning