Process Planning, Estimating, and Scheduling Specialist

Job Description

Shift: Morning
Pay Rate: $35.00
This position will be located within our Food & Beverage Equipment group and will play a vital role in the manufacturing and cost estimating of materials and equipment manufactured at PESC.
This is a position that requires active involvement with management, customer service, manufacturing and engineering to support material requirements and cost estimating. This position requires the ability to identify needs, search for solutions, evaluate all options, implement solutions, and document processes. This role requires someone that is creative, and has the ability to be highly accurate in their work. This position requires a person of unquestionable character due to the exposure to VERY CONFIDENTIAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION. This person must create and maintain process flow charts to document the flow of work through material control, manufacturing engineering and production. He/She must look for continuous improvement with systems or procedures to improve the planning department.
The length of time to learn this job with minimum satisfactory performance is 6 months.

• Be fluent in using the MRP, Production Control, Costing and Planning modules in SAP.
• Intimate knowledge of metal cutting machine shop and fabrication practices, assembling, blueprint reading, cost estimating, and computer skills.
• Make independent decisions from interpreting engineering drawings: Choice of PESC machines and operations, sequence of events, detailed notes in process sheets, make vs buy decisions, and establishing “standard” labor times per operation.
• Generate estimated DMC’s
• Create Primary Routings and Production Versions in SAP for each manufactured material, or in a “One Time” situation, it may be created in the Production Order, instead of creating a “primary” routing.
• Directs Master Data to create BOM in SAP for die work or builds the BOM in the production order as needed.
• Coordinate with NC Programming when programs and tooling are needed.
• Responsible for charging the cost of any Eng, R&D or Department Project work in SAP, to the correct “internal order” numbers, provided by the accounting department. Determines if the Project work is charged “actual” cost, or “standard” cost.
• Analyzes “planned” orders, generated by MRP.

• Converts applicable “Planned” orders in SAP into “Production” orders, and releases to manufacturing.
• Assist in minimizing inventory dollar value by establishing accurate process lead times and accurate MRP controls in SAP for all manufactured parts/equipment, like Safety Stock Levels, Rounding Values etc.
• Coordinates with “shop leads” to identify and resolve potential problems that may have an impact on labor or material costs and/or work schedules before work is released to be manufactured.
• Advises shop leads the status of critical jobs in process and customer service of any delays.
• Process Engineering SPIF (ECOs) for anything that changes a process and/or affects the cost of an item in SAP. Also update any released production orders on the shop floor.

Qualifications

• Two Year Degree with practical experience needed. APIC Certification desired.
• 5 years +, previous related work experience in Machining Various Metals, Fabrication work, Cost Estimating, MRP and Scheduling in a Job Shop environment.
• Must be a self motivated, detail oriented person, with excellent computer and communication skills, including communicating internationally with sister plants.
• Must be a leader that can provide guidance.

Benefits and Perks

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discounts
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid elder care
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance