What are the responsibilities and job description for the Operations Associate position at Wisoman Foods?
Job Description
The Operation Associate will be working on manufacturing operations: production planning, inventory control and purchase, production process, supply chain, lean implementation and safety.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Manage and monitor raw material and finished goods inventory. Focus on material availability, lead times, on time delivery through optimal resource allocation, finished goods inventory and movement.
- Generate and place purchase orders as per production demands and orders.
- Communicate with vendors and suppliers for product pricing, terms & conditions, lead times.
- Use lean manufacturing which rely heavily on Just-in-Time inventory methods that in turn rely heavily on interaction with suppliers and transparency throughout the supply chain.
- Ensure that finished products are consistently manufactured meeting prescribed standards (compliant) with quality, safety and good manufacturing practices, on time and meeting consumer expectations.
- Continuously strive for improvement in production efficiencies so that downtime is minimized, and production yield is maximized.
- Delivery of all scheduled production, on time, within cost, and at quality level.
- Monitor rework levels and usage in order to keep rework levels at a minimum.
- Enter data from various source documents into the computer such as excel, ERP system, processing and data management purposes. Verify data and correct data where necessary.
- Generate Key Performance Indicators (KPI) reports
- Assist other Departments as required
Salary : $20
