Senior Planner / Scheduler

KPS Global•Fort Worth, TX

About The Position

KPS Global is a provider of insulated panel systems for custom walk-ins serving convenience store, supermarket, and warehouse club markets. It also manufactures custom enclosures for controlled environments in scientific and industrial markets. Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, the company has five manufacturing locations and more than 850 employees. KPS Global is privately held and owned by Viessmann Generations Group. The Senior Planner / Scheduler plans and schedules production activities to meet customer demand and maximize throughput. The role coordinates order information among sales staff, factory personnel, customers, vendors, and internal departments; maintains production schedules and reports; and helps ensure complete, timely customer shipments. It also supports capacity planning, continuous improvement, material and inventory coordination, and production-control work processes.

Responsibilities

Communicate order-related information to inside and outside sales staff and relay pertinent data to factory personnel to support ongoing product builds.
Ensure each job ships complete, including buy-outs, steel, refrigeration units, and peripheral equipment, coordinating with departments and vendors so equipment arrives at the job site alongside manufactured panels.
Maintain complete and accurate production schedule information and reports.
Plan and schedule production by sequencing customer demand through individual work centers to maximize throughput.
Build relationships with customers’ purchasing, design, and construction departments as a representative of company management.
Coordinate shipment schedules with customers and their logistics carriers.
Analyze workflow and identify continuous-improvement opportunities to maximize the use of manpower and equipment.
Assist team members with problem resolution to support customer satisfaction.
Assess build requests and work with plant management to create effective and efficient build schedules.
Coordinate timely and accurate procurement of buy-outs for customer orders.
Ensure reporting systems communicate effectively and on time with management, project associates, inter-company departments, and external customers.
Develop and maintain capacity for production resources, including guidelines for production orders to balance schedules and resolve constraints.
Assist with reallocating material not specifically linked to production orders and manage excess and obsolete inventory and the disposition of returns.
Create and maintain job instructions for Production Control work processes and ensure Production Schedulers are cross-trained in those processes.