Order Manager Jobs in Austin, TX (NOW HIRING)

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The Order Management Administrator is responsible for managing customer orders throughout the order lifecycle, ensuring accurate order entry, production planning, and on-time delivery. This role supports customers by processing new orders and order changes, communicating committed ship dates and order status updates, validating product configurations for manufacturability, and ensuring material and production capacity align with customer requirements. The Order Management Administrator works closely with production control, manufacturing, shipping, quality, and customer service teams to resolve scheduling conflicts, coordinate expedite requests, release work orders and shipping authorizations, and support the timely fulfillment of customer orders. Additionally, the role generates routine reports, responds to customer information requests, and assists in resolving customer quality incidents while maintaining established lead time, response time, and delivery performance goals.

Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8am-5pm

What a typical day looks like:

• Manual order entry into production planning system.
• Process customer order changes by entering customer requests into planning systems.
• Communicates order status to customer including initial committed ship dates (CSD's) and follow up on interim order changes.
• Release authorizations to shipping department to deliver product.
• Validates order configurations for manufacturability per customer's product rule sets.
• Validates material and capacity availability based on products ordered and in accordance with customer's requested ship dates.
• Resolve low level scheduling conflicts such as material and capacity availability issues.
• Coordination and communication of order expedite requests to production control- may include preliminary determination of material and capacity availability, lead-time restrictions, and modification of schedules within limited parameters.
• Runs routine reports in support of customer information requests and internal reporting requirements.
• Responsible for making sure work orders are released to manufacturing and authorizations for shipping are released in time to meet established goals for lead time, response time and committed ship dates.
• Provide support to quality function in resolution of customer incidents

The experience we're looking to add to our team:

• At least three years of customer order changes in a manufacturing/shipping and receiving environment
• Ability to type, utilize telephones, computer applications such as work-processing, spreadsheet, presentation and database systems. Requires good organizational, follow-up and interpersonal skills. Good with basic computer skills
• HS diploma required/college degree preferred

What you'll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

Global Procurement & Supply Chain

Is Sponsorship Available?

No

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