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.