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Enercon Industries is a mid-sized family company that manufactures technical equipment for a variety of industries globally. Our Induction Cap Sealers and Surface Treating equipment are among the best in the world, and we pride ourselves on being the market leader and innovation driver in our field. 

The Production Planner Scheduler I role is responsible for coordinating all aspect of materials, labor, and equipment utilization for their assigned product lines and manufacturing departments to ensure on time start and completion of customer orders and supporting jobs and operations. Maintain high standards for accuracy of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system Master Data, frequently and clearly communicating production status to key stakeholders, creating problem solving, and a driver to maximize Safety, Quality, Delivery and Capacity (SQDC) in the manufacturing environment. This role directly impacts the success of our manufacturing people, processes, and Enercon's ability to service our customers. 

Responsibilities:

• Establish the production schedule and rough-cut capacity plan for assigned product areas and manufacturing departments by balancing customer order demand, inventory replenishment demand, production capacity, resource, and material constraints, while achieving >90% on time delivery.  
• Rigorously evaluate and manage ERP master data for consistency and accuracy to ensure highly accurate real-time status of customer orders, capacity utilization, inventory levels, material delivery or shortages, and to maximize the opportunity manage by exception, and support long term requirements planning.
• Establish and maintain proper inventory levels and replenishment strategies or tactics to maintain or improve lead times, both to customer and internal departments. 
• Effectively collaborate with Purchasing to ensure timely delivery of sourced or sub-contracted materials or services supporting the production schedule. 
• Coordinate with receiving, Inventory, Kitting, and Material Handling staff to ensure effective and timely tracking and delivering of materials with Enercon manufacturing facilities. 
• Ensure inventory transactions are performed correctly by all staff. Communicate or escalate issues, as necessary. 
• Effectively collaborate and maintain communication with Sales, Engineering, and Manufacturing leadership on order completion dates. Ensuring accuracy and consistency of ERP system data, status notes, and verbal/email communication.
• Communicate with company personal as required to keep them informed of delivery schedules, material lead-times for the manufacture of customer orders, or the status of Engineering Changes, or development and introduction of New Products. Including daily attendance at manufacturing department meetings, twice weekly Order Status meetings, and monthly S&OP meetings.
• Update published lead times for assigned product lines at least monthly or as directed. 
• Establish a level loaded schedule for assigned manufacturing departments in alignment with master production schedule following the priorities of customer orders, safety stock, and forecasted. 
• Perform frequent review of manufacturing master data, department work cues, material shortage reports, and make corrections to ensure adherence to established or revised production priorities. Ensure materials are planned or procured correctly and are on time or expedited to ensure production occurs to the master production schedule. Quickly, clearly, and effectively escalate exceptions to the appropriate person or persons and follow through diligently to recover, maintain, or improve the production output. 
• Process sub-contract receipts, RMA's, DMR's, and rework jobs as required to ensure timely status reporting and resolution of issues. 

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain or Operations Management, or an associate degree with one (1) or more years of work experience in Production Scheduling, Supply Chain, Business, Materials Management, or related field is required. 
• Good verbal and written communication to inform the organization on order, job, and operation status is required. 
• Basic knowledge of ERP systems is preferred. Epicor ERP is the most preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Excel and Word is required. Basic data extraction and Excel trend analysis and basic forecasting capabilities are required.
• Basic ability to understand and interpret engineering drawings, technical data, and product specifications is desirable.
• CPIM, ASCM. and/or ISM certifications are a plus.
• May occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds to move parts, materials, and product.