Production Control Specialist (Scheduling)
Tokai Rika GroupJackson, MI
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Overview
Schedule
Full-time
Career level
Senior-level
Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Disability Insurance
Job Description
Overview:
Candidate will plan, schedule, and optimize the flow of production
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Scheduler with Lean Manufacturing experience such as; material/product pull systems, line balancing techniques, and time study experience. Must also have strong problem solving and kaizen abilities.
- Supports new products preparation activities
- Supports balance out activities
- Issue and maintain kanbans
- Calculate requirements and issue Production and Heijunka schedule.
- Report manufacturing status by assembly line
- Provide maintenance to the weekly production schedule
- Provide backup the receiving and shipping functions, as needed
- Receive and input the customer orders and forecasts in the system
- Customer Relations including calls, emails, surveys, customer portals, etc.
- ECI Management
- Cycle Counts
- Negative Inventory Investigation and Correction
- Customer Scorecards
- Back Order Investigation
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or at least four years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Benefits:
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Prescription
- Vision
- 401K + Company match
- Life Insurance
- Short Term Disability
- Long Term Disability
- Education Assistance
- Flex Spending
- Employee Assistance Programs
- 12 Paid Holidays
- Paid Time Off
TAC Manufacturing, Inc. is a Japanese owned automotive parts supplier, serving the Japanese Transplants (Toyota, Nissan, Subaru, etc.) as well as the domestic OEMs (Ford and GM). Located in Jackson, MI, TAC Manufacturing, Inc. is a subsidiary company of Tokai-Rika Co. LTD, which is located in Nagoya, Japan.
TAC was founded in 1991 and currently employs 700+ people at our Jackson, MI location.
We manufacture security and safety-related products: shift levers, shift-by-wire, steering wheels, exterior mirrors, steering column locks, key cylinders, mechanical and remote keys, and more.
Shift your career into drive and help TAC Manufacturing make the driving experience an intuitive connection between the human body and the vehicle.
TAC Manufacturing, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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