Plant Operations & Process Improvement Coordinator

Sunward Steel Buildings Group; Jamestown (ND); On-site; USD 25,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

128 hours Paid Time Off

8 paid holidays

EAP - Employee Assistance Program

Group Life Insurance & AD&D — 100%

Job summary

Sunward Steel Buildings in Jamestown, ND is seeking a Plant Operations Coordinator to keep production documentation current and ensure materials are ready. Reporting to the Plant Manager, you will own work packets, revision control, and drive improvement projects with Drafting, Production, Materials, and Accounting.

You must be detail-oriented with initiative and organizational skills to keep jobs on schedule and deliveries correct.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of administrative, production support, or purchasing experience, preferably in a manufacturing or construction environment
• Demonstrated experience coordinating projects or process improvements from start to finish
• Ability to read and interpret shop and engineering drawings
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, with an emphasis on Excel, and experience with ERP or order management systems

Responsibilities

• Assemble work packets for each department, including shop drawings, cut lists, bills of material, and shipping lists, as released by Drafting, in line with the production schedule.
• Release packets to the production floor in schedule order and confirm each department has complete, current documentation before work begins.
• Own revision control: pull superseded drawings from the floor when a change order is issued, replace them with the current revision, and maintain organized physical and electronic job files from release through shipment.
• Serve as the first point of contact for production questions about missing or unclear paperwork, routing issues to Drafting or Engineering and following them through to resolution.
• Create purchase orders in system of record for shop supplies, MRO items, consumables, and other plant purchases within an approved authority limit, routing purchases above that limit to the Plant Manager for approval.
• Track open purchase orders through delivery, follow up with vendors on confirmations and delays, and resolve receiving and invoice discrepancies with vendors and Accounts Payable.
• Build and maintain plant KPI reporting, and flag trends and issues to the Plant Manager.
• Lead plant improvement initiatives assigned by the Plant Manager, such as standardizing work packet formats, cleaning up ERP item and vendor data, or building production tracking tools, from planning through rollout.
• Identify recurring paperwork, purchasing, or communication issues across departments, and propose and implement fixes.
• Maintain plant records, including production logs, quality documentation and logs, and SDS documentation, and coordinate plant visitors, vendors, and contractors.

Skills

Attention to detail

Initiative / project ownership

Organization

Accountability

Education

Associate degree in business or related field

Tools

ERP systems

Microsoft Excel

Order management systems

Job description

Sunward Steel Buildings in Jamestown, ND is seeking a Plant Operations Coordinator to keep production documentation current and ensure materials are ready. Reporting to the Plant Manager, you will own work packets, revision control, and drive improvement projects with Drafting, Production, Materials, and Accounting.

You must be detail-oriented with initiative and organizational skills to keep jobs on schedule and deliveries correct.