Production Planning and Scheduling Supervisor

Enercon Industries is a mid-sized family company that manufactures technical equipment for a variety of industries domestically and across the world. Our Induction Cap Sealers and Surface Treating equipment are among the best in the world and we pride ourselves in being the market leader and innovation driver in our field.

The Production Planning and Scheduling Supervisor acts as the Master Planner/Scheduler for all domestic Enercon production facilities and supervises the Production Planner/Schedulers for all products, supporting manufacturing processes, and parts business. This highly visible role requires a high degree of cross-functional collaboration and coordination, creativity, with equal focus on developing people and delivering excellent results for Enercon's customers. The position is responsible for maintaining an in-depth understanding of customer demand and our manufacturing capacity and successfully coordinating production activities with purchasing, manufacturing, sales, and engineering to deliver industry leading production effectiveness, on time shipment, and lead-time performance to customers. This individual's communication and leadership behaviors must instill trust, confidence, and deliver continuous improvement in the team and the company's business processes.

Responsibilities:

• Leads the Production Planning and Scheduling team, daily activities, processes, and capabilities all of Enercon's domestic operations.
• Maintains awareness of job scheduling, material availability, job processing, receiving, inventory control, material handling and logistics as it impacts customer order status. Works decisively to ship orders on time, eliminate any past due, and maintain industry benchmark lead times.
• Coordinates with Sales to establish customer order shipment dates based on available capacity in the production schedule. Coordinates the activities of Engineering, Purchasing, Quality, and Manufacturing when obstacles arise to ensure customer shipment dates are met.
• Works closely with Engineering and Manufacturing to optimize the routing and visibility of jobs (Epicor Operations) through Enercon production facilities. Including on-going refinement of production labor standards for stock, configured, and custom engineered products.
• Regularly updates standard lead times for all product categories and sets delivery dates for new orders based on current order backlog and production capacity.
• Coordinates with Purchasing and Inventory Control to optimize inventory replenishment strategies for stock items and arrival dates of non-stock/purchase direct to job items to maintain consistent flow of jobs through the production process.
• Communicates with Quality, Purchasing, and Manufacturing to resolve non-confirming material issues promptly and if necessary, communicate production schedule adjustments to all stakeholders as needed.
• Assists or leads the development and enhancement of status dashboards and reporting capabilities to increase transparency of past due, current, and historical production status by plant and resource group.
• Builds a strong working relationship with their team based on communication, trust, mutual accountability, and mutual respect.
• Ensures team members follow established processes through proper training, creation of standard work, and supervision. Continuously improves the depth and breadth of their own capabilities and those of the Production Planning and Scheduling team.
• Act as subject matter expert for production planning, scheduling, and job processing functions of the ERP.
• Directly responsible for employee selection, reviewing employee performance, administering work rules, and recommending compensation adjustments.
• Represents themselves internally and externally in a professional manner in all situations with effective listening, communication, and delegation.
• Performs other tasks as required to support company initiatives or annual goals.
• May supervise other relevant roles in Inventory, Receiving, Material Handling, Shipping, or Logistics or temporarily act as a backup as needed.
• Complies with all housekeeping, safety, and quality rules and any relevant regulations.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree (B.S.) in Operations management, Supply Chain management, Engineering, or other relevant discipline. An equivalent combination of education or experience is acceptable.
• At least 5 years of experience in production planning and/or scheduling in a manufacturing and/or assembly operation.
• Demonstrated experience with Epicor ERP 10, or experience in multiple ERP systems and can clearly demonstrate directly translatable knowledge and skill required to get up to speed quickly.
• Experience leading or supervising teams using clear and effective written and verbal communication.
• Demonstrated ability to use M.S. Office suite applications.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience working in with Engineered-to-Order, Configured-to-Order, and ship from stock operating models.
• Prior experience working as a Buyer Planner.
• Prior experience leading individuals responsible for Production, Shipping, Receiving, Inventory, Material Handling, and/or Logistics.