Primary Responsibilities:
• Review customer orders, approved forecasts, backlog, and production priorities for assigned products or work centers.
• Assist with maintaining daily and weekly production schedules using established planning rules and system data.
• Create, update, reschedule, and close work orders in the ERP/MRP system according to approved procedures.
• Verify basic work order information, including quantities, dates, revisions, routings, and bill of material data; escalate discrepancies for correction.
• Run material availability and shortage reports, track missing components, and communicate risks before scheduled production starts.
• Coordinate with Manufacturing, Warehouse, Procurement, Engineering, and Logistics to support material staging and schedule execution.
• Monitor open work orders, WIP status, past-due orders, and completion activity for assigned builds.
• Maintain accurate planning trackers, shortage logs, system notes, and routine daily or weekly reports.
• Participate in production and shortage meetings and follow up on assigned actions.
• Support new product introductions, inventory reviews, cycle-count research, and planning process improvements as assigned.
• Follow company policies, quality requirements, customer commitments, and site safety procedures.
• Perform other duties consistent with the general scope and level of the position, as assigned.