About Us

EIS is a leading North American distributor of wire, cable, and connectivity solutions. Our culture is highly innovative, collaborative, and focused on building and maintaining relationships that allow us to surpass our customers’ expectations. We embrace the qualities that make each of our team members unique and develop each other’s skillsets so that together we can be stronger than the sum of our parts.

Job Description

The Production Scheduler/Planner is responsible for developing and utilizing procedures necessary to plan the product realization process and inventory control requirements in a way that satisfies the demands of sales for lead time and customer satisfaction, while scheduling the organizations resources in a way that meets the organization’s general objectives regarding profitability, cost controls, and productivity.

Responsibilities:

Accurately date the product realization process for incoming sales requests.

Validate material usage requirements in the dating of production and sales orders.

Manage inventory requirements to service sales expectations and cashflow targets.

Create and maintain production order folders & schedules.

Responsible for managing production floor planning boards.

Rushing expedites to production floor.

Updating & maintaining missing parts report (including buyer requests, communicating calculated dates to customer service, and updating of SAP production and sales order dates).

Properly schedule staff and equipment based on capacity constraints to meet the needs of the customer base, while successfully meeting company performance expectations.

Identify concerns and develop process improvement standards.

Conduct timely communications with customer service, ensuring that any product realization information necessary for the customer is available and accurate.

Qualifications:

Minimum required skills:

Ability to work effectively within SAP.

2+ years of experience in production scheduling / manufacturing environment.

Excellent communication and relationship building skills.

Excellent analytical skills and computer skills.

Strong verbal and written skills.

Able to work in a team environment, understanding MRP processes and fulfilling objectives with minimum direct supervision

Able to respond to internal requests for information in a timely and courteous manner.