Production Scheduler - ProMed Molded Products, Inc.

As a ProMed employee, you will contribute to the manufacture of products that have a significant impact on people’s lives. Through honesty, integrity, and collaboration, we strive to be the very best as we hire the very best.

ProMed was founded in 1989 addressing an industry need for cleanroom manufacturing of silicone components, specifically those having a medical application. We treat every component and finished device as though it will be used by a beloved family member or friend. We are dedicated to our customers and to our employees while helping to improve the health and well-being of people around the world.

Working as one to help many.

PRODUCTION SCHEDULER

The Production Scheduler is responsible for creating production schedules in accordance with Material Resource Planning recommendations and customer demand to ensure a controlled flow of work and materials through manufacturing. The Production Scheduler works with all departments to plan, schedule, and coordinate projects from start to finish. The Production Scheduler reviews incoming demand, allocates appropriate materials and parts, and identifies equipment and resources required to efficiently manufacture and deliver final deliverables to a committed schedule. The Production Scheduler supports corporate goals to ensure service level and inventory turns by carefully controlling production activities; supports factory data integrity for Bill of Materials (BOM), routings, and capacity models; supports data analysis for on time shipping metrics and documentation. The Production Scheduler ensures ProMed’s brand, philosophy, systems, policies, and procedures are properly implemented and observed.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Position duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Creates and implements a production scheduling system which allows Customer Service to confidently commit to customer order delivery requirements or negotiate a timely alternative to customer requested delivery dates;
• Creates, monitors, collects, and updates progress on schedule for all equipment resources;
• Reviews sales orders, and provides dates for customer orders based on customer requests, current capacity, and load;
• Schedules jobs across all departments, and reviews master production schedule and work orders;
• Establishes priorities for specific customer orders, and communicates order status cross functionally as required;
• Attends daily operations meetings, as needed;
• Works closely with Customer Service regarding daily scheduling issues;
• Creates a process for expediting high priority production orders, and works with engineers to prioritize engineering jobs;
• Uses knowledge of capacities and manufacturing constraints to optimize manufacturing resource utilization, and recommends equipment purchases, human resource needs, and material inventory levels;
• Assists supervisors set priorities for strategic customer orders;
• Reviews and manages all Kanbans (signboards/scheduling system for lean manufacturing);
• Works within Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) software to manage manufacturing processes and track inventory;
• Manages expired material, and escalates potential shortages before they affect production;
• Confers with department supervisors to determine work progress and to provide information on changes;
• Conducts data clean-up;
• Identifies improvement opportunities and drives them to closure;
• Communicates and works effectively across functional areas;
• Reviews documents, such as production schedules, staffing tables and specifications, obtain information about materials, priorities, and personnel requirements;
• Escalates issues and concerns to supervisor and others as appropriate;
• Closes out jobs as necessary;
• Completes other projects and/or tasks as assigned to support business needs;
• Works with Facilities and Maintenance departments to schedule equipment calibrations and preventative maintenance for “on time” completion of activities.
• Meets expectations of regular, reliable attendance;
• Other Duties As Needed: Any other duties and tasks as deemed necessary and appropriate.

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Operations or Business Management or similar field, or a minimum of 3 years’ equivalent combination of education and experience in manufacturing/production setting or related field;
• 3+ years of relevant planning experience;
• Proficiency in office technology including Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint);
• Experience in cleanroom manufacturing processes such as molding, trimming, post-cure, tumbling, washing, assembly, packaging, labeling, shipping, transfer molding, milling, microscopes, trimming tools, and bonding equipment;
• Knowledge of inputs, outputs, raw materials, waste, quality control, costs and techniques for maximizing the manufacture of goods;
• Ability to challenge oneself to display consistent output by meeting all goals and deadlines;
• Willingness to strive for production work excellence; free of errors and mistakes;
• Commitment to continuous improvement company-wide;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills both written and verbal; professional, courteous and friendly personality; clearly conveys ideas and information and receives information effectively;
• Excellent organizational, problem-solving and time-sensitive skills;
• Ability to create positive working relationships with a diverse group of people including gender, ethnicity, age, and cultural and skill level differences;
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision;
• Ability to establish priorities and meet deadlines.

Preferred:

• Previous experience with Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) systems preferred.

ProMed does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, marital status, order of protection, disability, military status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, public assistance, family status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information or other segmenting factor protected by law, or local human rights commission activity.