Overview:

The Senior Specialist – Production (Asset Optimizer) is responsible for coordinating all raw materials, in-process and finished goods inventories to align with the scheduled unit production plan.  This role will align with production planning, procurement, and 24/7 team operations to ensure all raw material deliveries are scheduled as required to support the production forecast and work through delivery timing impacts. This role will also be responsible for the accuracy of all onsite raw material, in process, and finished goods inventories and the overall raw material consumption process. This position will be located on-site in Cantonment, Florida. 

Responsibilities:

• Overall ownership of site integrated material management processes.
• Interface with procurement, planning, scheduling, and supply chain teams to ensure raw materials, chemicals and packaging are ordered and delivered as needed to meet unit objectives.
• Engages with unit team and 24/7 Team to identify quality issues with any raw materials and chemicals that need to be addressed with the suppliers.
• Identify emerging supply issues
• Gatekeeper for the schedulers and responsible for acceptance of the production schedule; provide the conduit between production and scheduling.
• Optimize the internal supply chain, material flow, and supports plant capacity increases (line installations, product growth, UTP) ensuring that the material handling processes are effective for plant success and comply with SQRE.
• Identifies scheduling improvement opportunities and works with schedulers to ensure rules are complied with windows for receipt of raw materials, minimum batch sizes, production wheels, sequencing, schedule breaks and changeover rules.
• Engage with supply chain to ensure that they are aware of any production schedule challenges, including planned maintenance outages, raw material concerns, unplanned downtime, and OST.
• Ensures that production runs are being scheduled with the accurate inputs regarding rates, OST, and changeover time.
• Continuously monitors throughput and production to ensure adherence to schedule and commitments.
• Detect and anticipate emerging issues that will affect productivity and the schedule; includes collection and analysis required metrics and provide short term/long term plan to address/resolve process gaps.
• Facilitate kaizen events and actions to improve efficiency, reliability, and continuously improve processes in order to minimize unplanned downtime and decrease changeover times.
• Collaborate with Asset Leader to understand and set priority for equipment repairs while communicating to appropriate stakeholders in production and scheduling.
• Communicate issues or barriers with production schedule or material containment.
• Generate ideas for improvement and support implementation of process improvements.
• Responsible for Sox control and cycle counts of inventory.
• Manages Sites KPI’s: Production Schedule compliance; Raw Material Availability; Packaging Material Availability.

Qualifications:

Required Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Associate's degree or higher required; relevant professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills with the ability to communicate effectively to all levels of an organization.
• Excellent time management skills, with evidence of prioritizing to deliver the right outcomes; highly collaborative in approach; effective in building strong working relationships.
• Demonstrated experience with raw material procurement processes.
• Demonstrated ability to understand production schedules and production capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, optimize work processes, and being resourceful.
• Excellent organizational and problem solving skills.
• Experience in ERP's, preferably SAP usage for material management.
• Proficient with basic computer software (i.e. Microsoft Office).
• Ability to negotiate and operate/prioritize with ambiguity.

Desirable Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Demonstrated experience with MES.
• 4 years Santoprene experience.
• Demonstrated experience in Supply Chain.
• Associates degree in technical field.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects/tasks/programs.