On-Site Production Expeditor: Urgency-Driven Scheduling

Ascentec Engineering, LLC; Dallas, Northern (OR, KY); Hybrid; USD 65,904,000 - 80,231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off / Holiday pay

Medical/Dental/Vision Coverage

401(k) with matching funds

Job summary

Ascentec Engineering, a Dallas, Oregon facility, seeks an Expeditor to drive follow-up on urgent material, supplier, job, and production constraints that affect schedules and customer delivery commitments. The role supports planning, scheduling, purchasing, production, inventory control, and quality by identifying blockers and obtaining status updates.

This on-site position protects the schedule by ensuring late or constrained items receive timely attention and action.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience in manufacturing, production control, planning support, purchasing support, inventory control, or expediting.
• Ability to follow up consistently and drive action across multiple departments.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, email, and production reports.

Responsibilities

• Follow-up on late, urgent, or at-risk material or POs that impact production schedules.
• Coordinate with purchasing for supplier status, updated promise dates, and recovery plans.
• Escalate supplier delays that may affect customer commitments or production priorities.
• Monitor material shortage reports and drive timely updates.
• Support dock, receiving, inspection, and inventory follow-up when expedited material arrives.
• Communicate material recovery status to planning, scheduling, and production teams.
• Track critical jobs through production to support schedule execution.
• Follow up on jobs that are late, stalled, on hold, awaiting inspection, or blocked by constraints.
• Coordinate with production leads, supervisors, quality, and planning to determine next steps.
• Support priority movement through machining, deburr, assembly, cleanroom, inspection, outside processing, or other operations.
• Identify and escalate issues preventing jobs from moving forward.
• Support recovery efforts for past due and customer critical jobs.
• Maintain visibility to open constraints affecting production or material availability.
• Track owner, action needed, due date, and current status for expedited items.
• Follow up with responsible parties to ensure actions are completed timely.
• Escalate unresolved issues to the appropriate planner, scheduler, buyer, or manager.
• Support daily shortage meetings, production meetings, and past due recovery reviews.
• Help ensure urgent issues do not get lost between departments.
• Use Epicor Kinetic, Planet Together APS, Excel, and other reports to identify late or at‑risk items.
• Update trackers, comments, notes, or status fields as required by department process.
• Ensure expediting status is clear, current, and visible to stakeholders.
• Identify data discrepancies that impact expediting accuracy and elevate for correction.
• Support cleanup of open actions related to shortages, late POs, job holds, or past due work.
• Communicate regularly with purchasing, planning, scheduling, production, inventory control, quality, and receiving.
• Provide clear and timely status updates on critical items.
• Help coordinate handoffs between departments when urgent work requires immediate attention.
• Support customer escalation responses by providing current internal status and recovery timing.
• Build strong working relationships across the shop floor and support teams.
• Identify recurring causes of expedited work, late supply, or blocked jobs.
• Provide feedback to planners, schedulers, buyers, and managers on process gaps.
• Support improvements to shortage review, job tracking, receiving flow, and escalation processes.
• Help document expediting processes and standard work.
• Promote proactive issue resolution instead of reactive firefighting.

Skills

Expediting

Cross-functional coordination

Microsoft Excel

Strong communication

Multi-tasking

Tools

Epicor Kinetic

ERP systems

Job description

Ascentec Engineering, a Dallas, Oregon facility, seeks an Expeditor to drive follow-up on urgent material, supplier, job, and production constraints that affect schedules and customer delivery commitments. The role supports planning, scheduling, purchasing, production, inventory control, and quality by identifying blockers and obtaining status updates.

This on-site position protects the schedule by ensuring late or constrained items receive timely attention and action.