Production Scheduling Coordinator - Level II

Description

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Efficient Production Scheduling : By developing and maintaining production schedules that align with sales forecasts and plant capacity, you'll ensure customer demands are met promptly.
• Optimized Inventory Management : Collaborating with Material Planners and Operations, you'll optimize raw material, work-in-process, and finished goods stocking strategies, reducing waste and improving efficiency.
• Health, Safety, and Environmental Compliance : By reporting incidents and complying with HSE standards, you'll contribute to a safer and healthier workplace.
• Quality Assurance : Following standard work procedures and collaborating with Quality teams, you'll help maintain high product quality and timely disposition of non-conforming materials.
• Risk Mitigation : Understanding and addressing risks such as downtime and material shortages will help minimize their impact on production schedules, ensuring smooth operations.
• Data-Driven Improvements : Collecting and analyzing data to identify bottlenecks and other issues will enable you to suggest and implement process improvements.
• Customer-Centric Delivery : Taking ownership of the production schedule and ensuring it meets customer needs will enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty.
• Effective Communication and Teamwork : By communicating effectively with your team and participating in improvement projects, you'll foster a collaborative environment and drive continuous improvement.
  
  

These contributions will help streamline operations, enhance product quality, and ensure customer satisfaction. How do you feel about these responsibilities?

Responsibilities

To be successful in this role you will need the following:

• Effective Communication : Develop and deliver clear, multi-mode communications tailored to the unique needs of different audiences.
• Customer Focus : Build strong relationships with customers and deliver solutions that meet their needs.
• Results-Driven : Consistently achieve results, even under challenging circumstances.
• Accountability : Hold yourself and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Complexity Management : Make sense of complex, high-volume, and sometimes contradictory information to solve problems effectively.
• Materials Planning System Utilization : Use the materials planning system to manage supply and demand plans, taking corrective actions based on root cause analysis. Utilize tools like Excel, Access, TOAD, and OMS for problem-solving.
• Part Change Control Management : Evaluate and implement engineering change requests to meet customer delivery requirements while minimizing excess and obsolete inventory.
• Plan for Every Part (PFEP) : Apply PFEP principles to ensure the right part is delivered at the right time, in the right quantity, and to the right place, ensuring smooth operations.
• Detailed Capacity Planning : Translate the Master Production Schedule into detailed resource requirements, optimizing internal capacity utilization and identifying constraints. Negotiate changes to the schedule or resources when demand exceeds capacity.
• Master Supply Scheduling : Establish and maintain a valid Master Production Schedule that meets customer expectations and maximizes operational efficiency.
• Materials KPI Management : Assess supply chain performance against organizational expectations, interpret KPIs to understand end-customer impact, and strategically balance trade-offs to influence KPIs.
• Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) : Convert the Demand Plan and Master Supply Plan into critical resource requirements, negotiating changes to balance supply and demand for long-term resource planning.
• Valuing Differences : Recognize and appreciate the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to the organization.
  
  

By focusing on these areas, you'll be well-equipped to make a significant impact in your role. How do you feel about these requirements?

Education, Licenses, Certifications

High school diploma or certificate of completion of secondary education or equivalent experience to the extent such experience meets applicable regulations.

This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Experience

Prefer some work experience and intermediate level knowledge obtained through training or on-the-job experience. 1-4 years of relevant work experience preferred.

Qualifications

Additional Information:

Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.

Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.

Ensures accountability - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.

Manages complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.

Job Supply Chain Planning

Organization Cummins Inc.

Role Category On-site

Job Type Office

ReqID 2411461

Relocation Package Yes

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