Production Administrator

Summary

Spectrum Aquatics is a Montana manufacturer that specializes in designing and producing commercial aquatics equipment. The Production Associate directly reports to the Director of Engineering and supports the manufacturing department in a wide array of activities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepare all cycle count sheets, enter count information, and run variance reports for review.
• Cut, issue, close, and cancel all custom and standard work orders and review all bill of materials for accuracy.
• Assist the Director of Manufacturing, Engineering, and Sales departments in ordering raw material and drop ship items.
• Post inventory adjustments, issues, and transfer forms.
• Process all material orders placed by vendors.
• Work with the accounting department to process and post work order disassembly entries.
• Update and display the production weekly dashboard.
• Create new part numbers based on approved New Part Number forms.
• Works with Purchasing department or vendors to resolve product concerns.
• Trace history of items to determine reasons for discrepancies between inventory and stock control records and recommends corrective/preventive actions to resolve such discrepancies.
• Manage inventory locations, when necessary, assigns, maintains BIN locations.
• Ensure that delivery schedules are met by working with sales, the drafting/design department and manufacturing department to ensure product fabrication can meet deadlines.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing, Purchasing, and Engineering on raw materials change notifications
• Support the shipping department as needed to ensure timely delivery of orders and shipping quotations.
• Assesses production workloads to provide Director of Manufacturing with lead time estimations and manpower availability. Manages work order completion changes, bottlenecks, material shortages, or updates.
• Assist in prioritization, planning, scheduling, and management of production activities to meet manufacturing objectives in timely and cost-effective manner.
• Identify production issues, analyze root causes, and derive resolutions.
• Assist in development of process improvements to improve workflow efficiency.
• Communicate production updates and errors to Manager on regular basis.
• Generate production related reports to Manager when needed.
• Communicate complex issues to Manager for immediate resolution.
• Assist with or accept other duties as may be considered necessary in the circumstances or as directed by management.