What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Optimization position at KA Components?
Title: Production Optimization Status: Full Time
Reports To: Production Office Manager Department: Production
Position Description: Assures that all design and order preparation is handled efficiently and accurately eliminating delays on the production floor. Works with inventory control to most efficiently produce orders from current and available inventories. Optimizes all designs where applicable.
Qualifications: Hands on production experience, and/or other related design software such as Mitek, or with hands-on training from an experienced designer or representative.
POSITION GOALS / OBJECTIVES
Optimization of Orders - Understanding and the elimination of materials without changing design profiles and loadings to cut material costs and help increase shop productivity. This includes the understanding of current level of inventories on a daily basis.- Parting Jobs - Accurately and efficiently part/cut orders in a sequence to help eliminate additional set-ups in all areas of production without compromising KA’s delivery schedule. (Picker, Saws, Plates, Builders, Stackers)
- Elimination of Production Stoppage - To work efficiently and effectively to prevent production stoppage at any given time. This includes and leads up to the willingness to work necessary overtime needed to maintain production needs.
- Understand and presenting proper information per designs - Understanding what information is needed at each workstation in order supply that information without errors up front before it’s needed at the workstation.
- Cross Training within other areas of the Office - Learn, understand, and assist with processes being done by the Office Manager to achieve efficiencies throughout the entire production office.
- Versatility - willing to work/help in other areas - Ability to accomplish day-to-day tasks and willingness to expand experience knowledge in other areas such as QC programs, IT development, assisting Production Office Manager, learning new processes, assisting production, and more. Be a “Team Player”.