What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Inventory Tracker position at AquaPhoenix Scientific LLC?
AquaPhoenix Scientific, located in Hanover, PA is seeking a Production Scheduler responsible for the coordination and scheduling of daily production runs and projects. This is an excellent opportunity for an individual with strong administrative skills and general knowledge of manufacturing processes. Must be able to successfully guide and synchronize the flow of materials, labor assignments, project priorities, and WIP (work in progress). Ensure manufacturing, safety, quality, and shipping goals are maintained. While working under minimum supervision, the successful candidate will need to demonstrate an ability to plan, arrange, and execute production schedules in a small volume, high-mix custom production environment with a goal to achieve 100% on time delivery. This is an hourly non-exempt position with opportunities to advance.
Essential Requirements and Responsibilities
Work in collaboration with production operations management to prioritize daily production jobs.
Provide updates, identify bottlenecks, and review material or potential labor shortages and/or last-minute change orders.
Recommend and coordinate procedures for the effective planning, scheduling, utilization of materials, equipment, labor, warehousing, and shipping to provide on-time products to customers in a cost-effective manner.
Generate work orders - taking responsibility to ensure all orders are completed to customer standards throughout the entire production life cycle. Check and verify inventory, production priorities, and personnel; schedule and assign accordingly.
Maintain a constant focus dedicated to quality control, on-time delivery, safety, and process validation activities throughout the planning and scheduling process.
Update and report on daily/weekly project tracker. Participate in production related meetings as required to resolve open action items associated with production and scheduling.
Participate in and support Lean and Kanban initiatives to support ensure cost, quality, logistics and customer needs, and production goals are consistently achieved, and on-going improvements are sustained.
Comprehend a wide range of manufacturing processes; utilize capacity planning tools, industry related software, and SOPs. Make recommendations for improvements as appropriate.
Proactively communicate daily goals, timeline, set-backs, analysis, resolutions, and progress reports to production management.
Qualifications
The successful candidate should have a minimum of 3 years administrative work experience with knowledge and understanding of the production life-cycle. As an integral part of the production operations team, the successful candidate will also need to be a team player with a “can do” attitude. Must be comfortable communicating with peers and customers, and shipping operators. Training will require immediate immersion into the familiarization with product lines and the production processes.
About AquaPhoenix
AquaPhoenix is driven by a company culture that inspires a flexible, fun, ‘can-do’ approach to business. We are an industry leader in water testing kits and reagent manufacturing, as well as a distributor of thousands of testing products and supplies for a multitude of industries including industrial water treatment, cleaning & sanitation, oil & gas, environmental, water conditioning, and education.
If you are looking for a great work environment, competitive pay, bonus opportunities, career growth, and exceptional benefits that includes health, dental, vision, 401(k), STD/LTD, and paid time off consider a career with AquaPhoenix Scientific. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that embraces diverse skills, perspectives and ideas that help our business grow. Minorities, females, protected Veterans, and individuals with disabilities are urged to apply. For more information or to apply, please visit www.aquaphoenixsci.com.
