Production Scheduling Manager

Duties/Responsibilities: · Participates in recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and training new staff in the department.

· Oversees the daily workflow of the department.

· Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations.

· Handles discipline and termination of employees in accordance with company policy.

· Serves as a primary point of contact for and liaison with sales, logistics, and manufacturing departments.

· Collaborates with these departments to establish schedules and plans that allocate available resources to best serve client or customer needs.

· Coordinates with supply chain to negotiate with outside supply vendors; to ensure accurate and timely delivery of orders.

· Participates in SIOP meetings with supply chain, sales, marketing, and other related departments.

· Development, preparation, and maintenance of production schedules.

· Guide the production scheduling activities and resources to achieve maximum efficiency and meet output and timeline objectives.

· Collaborate with internal teams to assess and incorporate materials, inventories, resource availability, and delivery commitments into schedules.

· Monitor production progress and develop revised scheduling responsive to changes in flow of materials, designs, equipment, or other resources.

· Utilize ERP systems, planning and scheduling software, or other database tools to develop and maintain master schedules.

· Design and implement the production schedule plan considering all aspects of production including low cost, timeliness, and effectiveness.

· Monitor the materials inventory, track progress of production, and review factors which affect production targets.

· Work together with other employees to make sure that all issues that are related to scheduling are properly handled and resolved.

· Rectify and/or reconcile differences and inaccuracies that have to do with inventory levels and associated variances.

· Make sure schedules are given to employees in a timely fashion and that any discrepancies in the company's schedule are accounted for.

· Coordinate the collection and assimilation of data for various projects, i.e., tracking of error metrics, claims, process rates, etc.

· Ensure that every employee involved in the production process has a clear understanding of what is required to meet the order and needs of customers.

· Maintain documents related to inventory (cycle counts/discrepancies), etc.

· Manage day-to-day performance of department staff.

· Ensures that project/department milestones/goals are met and adhering to approved budgets.