Production Coordinator

BEL•Little Chute, WI

2d•Onsite

About The Position

At Bel, we are not just a company—we are a company on a Mission, built on 160 years of bold innovation, family values, and a commitment to social purpose. With beloved brands like Babybel®, GoGo squeeZ®, The Laughing Cow®, and Boursin®, our snacking solutions bring more than joy; they want to serve as a force for good. Our U.S. Mission? To help close the critical 80% nutrition gap by making it easier for Americans to eat more fruits, veggies, and dairy as part of their daily lives. The company has headquarters in Chicago and New York City and operates 4 manufacturing plants in Little Chute, WI; Brookings, SD; Traverse City, MI; and Nampa, ID. #IWorkForAllForGood Job Description Summary: The Production Coordinator helps manage the SAP functions related to local brand products at the Little Chute, WI Manufacturing Facility, including (but not limited to) planning, processing, and issuing inventory against orders, inventory reconciliation, managing open order reports and completing orders and raw ingredient responsibility. Provides production efficiency through downtime tracking and trending, OEE monitoring and 5 why resolution tracking.

Requirements

High school diploma and 3 years of experience in an administrative, production support or inventory control position is required.
Demonstrated intermediate to advanced knowledge of MS Office software is required, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of basic business terms.
Confidentiality, quality, accuracy, timeliness, reliability, and thoroughness of work performed.
Ability to gain the trust and respect of senior management, management team at the facility and employees, maintain the integrity of confidential business and product information.
Ability to communicate effectively and develop good working relationships with employees at all levels of the Company.
Ability to work with and through others is essential to accomplish goals and objectives of the Company.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree or associates degree preferred.
Work experience with inventory control experience is required; working within a departmental budget is a PLUS.
Support experience in a production and/or food manufacturing environment is preferred.
Previous experience with SAP and knowledge of other ERP and WMS is a PLUS.

Responsibilities

Reviews daily production paperwork for completeness; assesses down time and reviews material and ingredient usage.
Updates SAP based on production on a daily/weekly basis and adjusts production order status in SAP, as necessary. Completes all goods movements against production orders in SAP. Also performs the TECO (Technical Completion) of all production orders and adjusts production order handling units, as required.
Calculates inventory usage numbers for all production orders. Performs inventory reconciliations in SAP as required, including coordinating cycle counts, as needed.
Manages the open order report through COOIS, including daily resolution of any entries.
Manages the COGI Errors, Confirmations, Daily Butter Usage, Daily Raw Cheese Usage, Daily Water Usage, Daily Slurry Usage reports, Almond Report and posts daily reconciliation of information.
Completes monthly review and informs accounting of any discrepancies.
Enters trial materials in SAP.
Identifies significant downtime and production variances and escalates as appropriate to Supply Chain Manager.
Works with Production team to evaluate downtime and production variances, in addition to tracking 5 “WHY” Resolution to determine root cause, also supports trending, reporting and corrective action tracking.
Assists with questions concerning SAP functions. Creates detailed instruction sheets for SAP transactions, as required.
Acts as a back-up and resource to support other Production and Supply Chain roles, including Production Scheduling Coordinator and ScorePop entry.
Works with Inventory Control to maintain inventory accuracy of both EWIN and SAP.
All other duties as assigned.
Follows all safety rules and procedures by working safely and ensuring safety of others.
Follows all environmental protocols as applicable to the job.
Follows all Good Manufacturing Practices as stated within the policy.
Follow all food safety procedures.
Maintains a sanitary and safe work area; performs housekeeping duties as necessary and/or required.
Detects potentially hazardous conditions and problems and takes appropriate action to report and/or correct.