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Terex

Produces cranes, mining, and aerial platforms

Production Manager

Production Planning & SchedulingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeRedmond, WA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in materials management, business, or industrial engineering, or equivalent; substantial additional experience may substitute for some formal education.
  • Seasoned specialized knowledge of production planning and inventory management, with in-depth knowledge of production practices across multiple product lines.
  • Advanced problem-solving skills to develop solutions from large volumes of time-sensitive and competing data, create alternatives, and sequence action plans.
  • Advanced mathematics and statistics skills sufficient to integrate times, quantities, performance data, and ratios.
  • Skill in writing professional correspondence and reports.
  • Human-relations skills sufficient to facilitate small-group presentations, persuasively convey schedules, resolve conflicts, and maintain harmony with internal and external customers.
  • Ability to troubleshoot labor and material shortages, plant safety issues, and tool and equipment problems while maintaining productivity.
  • Ability to use advanced modeling tools to develop production and material-requirement plans and analyze large volumes of data under significant time pressure.
  • Ability to read and understand engineering documents and bills of material.
  • Ability to use computer-aided production-planning and forecasting tools.
  • Ability to plan and manage annual and monthly budgets.
  • Ability to instruct others.
  • Ability to tour manufacturing facilities recurrently, sit for extended periods, use a computer keyboard and retrieve work materials, read words and numbers, and communicate verbally in person and by phone.
  • Ability to work extra hours on short notice as production requires.

Responsibilities

  • Establish a consolidated production plan and long-range schedule incorporating sales projections, sales orders, product priorities, plant capacity, materials, and labor.
  • Use computer-automated production-planning, forecasting, and business-simulation tools to develop integrated production and material-requirement plans.
  • Communicate regularly with departments to keep the master schedule current with confirmed sales orders, anticipated demand, product introductions, and customer delivery requirements.
  • Initiate communications on employee-relations matters, including promotions, transfers, attendance, discipline, work conditions, and personal assistance; resolve team-member grievances and problems or refer them to higher authority; conduct departmental team-member performance reviews.
  • Plan, schedule, and coordinate work between operating units, and communicate with schedulers and production planners to adjust master schedules for short-term needs and variations.
  • Serve as a primary contact for sales, manufacturing, and logistics; identify resource constraints and develop plans to meet customer needs across product lines.
  • Supervise and review computerized materials inventory against current and anticipated sales orders, and develop or activate reorder points when shortages are anticipated.
  • Ensure complicated sales orders are entered into the master schedule by others based on requested delivery dates, material availability, and equipment availability.
  • Review each facility's master production schedules daily and adjust for customer requirement changes, material delays, and production-equipment availability; advise relevant operating-unit and sales team members of schedule changes.
  • Lead periodic production-planning meetings with representatives from sales, production, shipping, customer service, and materials departments.
  • Develop measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and quality; implement changes to working conditions and equipment and tool use to improve workflow, efficiency, and team-member safety.
  • Develop and ensure training for current and new team members; communicate company philosophies and policies, teach and demonstrate work routines, and document performance.
  • Maintain records of daily activity, including time and materials, process steps, and significant issues or activities.
  • Ensure a safe and healthy work environment and ensure team members are trained in and follow safe practices.
  • Perform other duties that support the overall objective of the position.

Desired Qualifications

  • Five years of hands-on experience in assembly and/or fabrication processes in a Lean Manufacturing environment.

About the Company

Terex

Produces cranes, mining, and aerial platforms

Terex is a maker of heavy equipment for construction, mining, and infrastructure. Its products include cranes, mining machines, and aerial work platforms, with Genie Industries as a notable acquisition that broadened access equipment offerings. The devices are designed to move, lift, and place heavy loads—cranes hoist materials, mining trucks haul ore, and aerial work platforms provide safe access to elevated work sites. The company differentiates itself through a broad, multi-product lineup and a history of growth via strategic acquisitions that expand its capabilities and global reach, enabling it to serve customers across industries and regions. Terex’s goal is to be a leading supplier of lifting, loading, and material-handling equipment that helps customers complete large-scale projects efficiently and safely.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Norwalk, CT
Founded
1968

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