Supervisor of Production Control

Herff Jones•Indianapolis, IN

3d•$70,000 - $90,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Herff Jones Cap & Gown division is looking for a Production leader to join our operations team. This position would oversee the strategic and execution of the production function in our Indianapolis Cap & Gown plant. Reporting to the Sr. Warehouse Manager, you will be responsible helping to facilitate and maintain planning and scheduling with department and with manufacturing to achieve on-time targets, while positioning the production departments to achieve maximum production and scheduling efficiencies (Balance Scorecard – SQDIC – Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, & Cost). At Herff Jones we may have been around for 100 years, but we still have the mentality of a scrappy startup. For you, that means your job may grow and change over time. But do not worry, we would never ask an employee to take on an assignment they didn’t already have the right skill sets they needed to succeed.

Requirements

2-3 years’ experience in Production Control and/or Scheduling/Planning
Fundamental understanding of capacity planning, scheduling and production flow.
Multi examples of establishing priorities and work independently.
Experience leveraging modern technology to communicate and manage data: Sending e-mails, working with word processing and spreadsheet software programs. (Microsoft Word and Excel)
Proven ability to communicate across departments and work with peers to achieve goals.
Previous success in a faced paced environment with multiple priorities on daily basis.
Ability to work well with people having different ethnic, social, or educational backgrounds; understand the cultural differences of different groups.

Responsibilities

Partner with the DC Manager to schedule and load all new jobs into the department schedules and maintain them on a daily/weekly basis.
Lead a team a clerks and assistants daily to ensure goals are being met and work is distributed across the plant.
Enforce controls in process to understand work progress by job, print-run accuracy, and timeliness of work completion within capacity bounds.
Follow up with work in process to ensure on time completion.
Moving to downstream departments/work centers as required.
Act as Liaison between DC Manager, Production, and Customer Service Representatives.
Be involved in materials and labor planning to ensure adequate resources and materials are available to fulfill demand.
Develop material planning tools to provide timely manufacturing requirements to avoid expedited materials requirements.
Lead the production control function, reassuring efforts to align with inter-department schedules.
Partner with Customer Service leaders to develop, map and implement processes for rush and remake orders.
Maintain good relations between groups to ensure good, timely and necessary communications take place while enhancing teamwork.
Build and manage the annual budget for your respective departments in line with the overall manufacturing schedule and goals
Participate in bi-weekly meetings with department leads and DC Manager involving overall efficiencies, production plan, and schedule attainment.
Provide production updates to the DC Manager and management group via weekly production meetings and daily production reporting.
Prime responsibility of managing signals are distributed in a timely and sequenced manner to distribution teams (Print Runs and DC ticket accuracy and timeliness)
Actively participate in daily walkthroughs, understanding metrics and their drivers, and troubleshooting of operations.
Maintain safe work practices to help ensure plant wide safety goals are met.
Schedule staff production requirements and hold daily team meetings to communicate goals
Provide annual performance reviews to direct reports.
Review and approve hiring, new positions, or consolidation of positions requests, and hold employee counseling and termination meetings.
Prepare written job descriptions for any new positions and review existing job descriptions to keep current.
Review and approve employee timecards on a weekly basis for payroll deadlines
Adhere to all policies, procedures, programs and legal regulations regarding employment, safety, employee relations and training
Day-to-day management of direct reports to assist them as they handle situations relating to functions including but not limited to: organization, communication, achieving goals, customer interactions, and scheduling production for maximum efficiency and quality.