Production Planning Coordinator

About Optimas:
Optimas is a global distributor of integrated supply chain solutions, and engineering support
focused on delivering fasteners, components, industrial and safety supplies to our diverse
customers around the world. Our local, on-the-ground teams understand the nuances of every
community we serve. This allows us to adapt with our customers and partners as needs evolve,
leveraging our footprint to remain at your side while providing a highly personalized level of service and support no matter where you find yourself around the globe. Position overview:
The Production Planning Coordinator is responsible for adjusting jobs on the production board,
expediting, and following expedited job orders through the manufacturing processes, and
maintaining trackers. Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
• Ensuring Production is focusing on the correct job cards on headers and rollers.
• Schedule job orders to maximize on-time performance, while minimizing downtime.
• Coordinate changes with the Production Leads to maximize production efficiencies while
meeting customer demands.
• Expedite job orders when production is behind schedule or customers are increasing
demand.
• Identify jobs to expedite/pull in by utilizing reports.
• Maintain regular, open communication with the Direct Sales customer service team and
Distribution to ensure on-time delivery is maintained and priorities are set.
• Review and maintain the Expedite Tracker and manage any Form, Roll, and Schedule
operations, to ensure jobs are scheduled and prioritized appropriately.
• Review all open jobs and their relation to “start date”. Update and review production
progress through “start date report” and communicate to the Direct Team and Planning
Manager where we are behind with jobs starting on-time and why. 
• Collaborate with Production Leads to uncover any identified obstacles within manufacturing
that affect productivity that may interfere with start dates and expedited job orders.
• Collaborate with Production leads on all running machines and reprioritize where necessary
given any major delays with inoperable machinery.• Work with Customer Service and the Supply Chain Buyer when cancellation requests arise,
after the approval from the Planning Manager and/or VP of Manufacturing and follow
cancellation procedure.
• Combine jobs where possible if raw materials and tooling are available, to maximize
machine uptime.
• Ensure proper management and processing of partials/balances on job orders when
heading and rolling is not complete.
• Ensure proper closure of completed job orders.
• Provide production status updates to the Planning Manager.
• Act as a liaison between Production and Customer Service to communicate production
updates and job order status when needed.Month-to-Month Responsibilities:
• Summary reporting if job start times were not met within heading and rolling functions and
causes.
• Provide a high-level summary of productional status which would include areas of
opportunity and/or what is working well that affects meeting production goals and start
dates.
Key Competencies:
The ideal candidate must have the following competencies:
• Results driven.
• Must be a strategic and flexible thinker who has attention to detail but can also see the
bigger picture.
• Strong execution and follow-up skills.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks, with awareness of deadlines.
• Excellent workflow coordination.
• Can identify when a sense of urgency is necessary and execute well to a plan.
• Works well under pressure.
• Superb collaboration skills with customers and other departments to meet organizational
objectives.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships which support organizational objectives.
• Works well within a Team as well as Individually.Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in operations, Supply Chain, or other relevant field, or equivalent work
experience.• Minimum 2 years of experience in Production and Inventory Control, Operations,
Purchasing, or Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering preferred. Experience in material
control and production planning environment desired.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a basic manufacturing plant.
• Strong written and verbal communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple disciplines with internal and external
resources.
• Experience with ERP systems.
• Strong excel and data analysis skills.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Has a solid knowledge base for managing and maintaining appropriate inventory and safety
stock levels.Compensation:
At Optimas we believe in having a competitive compensation scheme to motivate and retain our
employees. More information will be giv