Downstream Flow Controller

Schneider Electric • Red Oak, TX

7d • Onsite

About The Position

Join our dynamic team as a Downstream Flow Controller and be at the heart of optimizing our supply chain operations! We're looking for a detail-oriented individual who can masterfully balance resources and demand while ensuring seamless material flow throughout our manufacturing processes.

Requirements

• Familiarity with production planning software, ERP systems, and other relevant tools
• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively.
• Proficiency in managing the flow of materials and products through the supply chain, including procurement, inventory management, and distribution.
• Ability to analyze data and metrics to identify trends, inefficiencies, and areas for improvement.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to coordinate with various departments and stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving skills to address and resolve production-related issues quickly and effectively.
• Ability to adapt to changing circumstances and priorities in a dynamic supply chain environment.
• Manufacturing Environment: Previous experience working in a manufacturing or production environment, with a solid understanding of production processes and workflows.
• Production Planning: Experience in production planning and scheduling, including managing master production schedules and distribution requirement planning.
• Supply Chain Management: Experience in supply chain management, including procurement, inventory control, and logistics.

Nice To Haves

• 3-5 years’ experience in Supply Chain Management in a manufacturing setting is an asset

Responsibilities

• Master Production Schedule Management: Forecast workload and capacity, manage supplier forecasts, and maintain the plant's Master Production Schedule.
• Material and Product Flow Management: Oversee the flow of raw materials and sub-assemblies from suppliers to the workshop, and the flow of finished goods from the workshop to distribution centers/customers.
• Downstream Flow Organization: Organize downstream flows within the manufacturing plant to improve supply chain performance.
• Distribution Requirement Planning: Execute Distribution Requirement Planning and Manufacturing Production Scheduling.
• Production Scheduling: Create and maintain production schedules to ensure targets are met efficiently and on time. Escalate issues to appropriate departments and communicate impacts to customers.
• Material Usage Recording: Accurately record material usage for each job.
• Supply and Stock Management: Ensure the update, quality, and consistency of key parameters such as replenishment lead time, quantity, frequency, and stocking policy.
• MPH Design and Implementation: Contribute to the design and implementation of MPH according to SPS rules in accordance with LWS4.
• Internal Flow Design: Design the organization of internal flows (physical and informational) according to SPS rules and update internal stock (kanban) parameters.
• Master Production Plan Leadership: Lead the Master Production Plan (MPP) process with other functions.
• Queue Management: Supervise waiting queue management for the plant and implement queue management with the methods engineer (IST4).
• Material Usage Recording: Ensure material used on the job is accurately recorded on the appropriate work order.
• Job Status Accuracy: Ensure job status is accurately reflected.
• Downstream SC Performance Monitoring: Monitor and improve downstream supply chain performance at the plant level.
• Information System Key User: Act as the key user for the department's information system.

Benefits

• Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best.
• We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and ‘inclusion’ is one of our core values.
• We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.
• At Schneider Electric, we uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance, and we believe that trust is a foundational value.
• Our Trust Charter is our Code of Conduct and demonstrates our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality and cybersecurity, underpinning every aspect of our business and our willingness to behave and respond respectfully and in good faith to our stakeholders.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level