Production Scheduler - Fabrication

Parker Hannifin Corporation; Richland Township (MI); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Parker Hannifin is seeking a Material Buyer in Richland, MI for Parker Pneumatic Division. The role reviews demand triggers to issue jobs in support of production needs and collaborates with schedulers to optimize kanban while prioritizing and expediting components from CNC and injection molding to support assembly.

The position emphasizes continuous improvement, lean practices, and strong cross-functional collaboration with manufacturing, procurement, and logistics to ensure on-time delivery

Qualifications

• Experience in procurement and fabrication scheduling.

Responsibilities

• Determine assembly priorities by utilizing PDN systems and tools to meet customer demand
• Support cross-functional activities with buyers, internal manufacturing, sales, and shipping/receiving teams to ensure a smooth supply chain
• Primary contact for matters regarding fabrication schedule status or changes
• Communicate potential shortages to production schedulers, customer service, and operations
• Complete regular optimization of machine kanban loops for maximum manufacturing efficiency while maintaining desired inventory levels for assembly
• Perform capacity and material availability analysis to assist with labor and overtime decisions
• Participate in meetings to identify any supply risks and recommend actions to mitigate
• Apply continuous improvement techniques and methods to internal processes and systems
• Evaluate, recommend, and implement changes to the overall fabrication planning process consistent with continuous improvement goals
• May lead or be assigned to a special project team
• Share functional knowledge with others through training and mentorship opportunities
• Actively participate in LEAN and Cost Reduction Programs
• Focus on PDN metrics including (but not limited to) safety, customer on-time delivery, supplier OTIF, inventory

Job description

Conditions of Employment

This position is subject to meeting U.S. export compliance and/or U.S. Government contracting citizenship eligibility requirements.

Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we've enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.

With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.

Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.

Our Purpose - Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow - comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.

By combining deep expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit, we help customers succeed in markets that demand performance, reliability, and sustainability.

As we look to the future, Parker is advancing initiatives in energy efficiency and sustainability while developing the next generation of talent and leaders to engineer a better tomorrow.

Are you ready to shape a brighter future?

In Motion Systems Group and Pneumatic Division, we play a pivotal role in applications that change our world. We are in almost everything that moves. With our wide range of technologies, we help our customers solve their most complex engineering challenges by living our purpose: enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow.

We believe that our team members are our key assets and that a diverse workforce is a driving force to bring our purpose to life. We foster a culture where every team member feels safe, included and empowered.

We all belong, we all matter, and we all make a difference.

Material Buyer in Richland, MI.

If you are looking for an opportunity to make an impact and grow your career, consider putting your experience in motion at Parker Pneumatic Division (PDN). Here you will find a passionate team built on a winning culture that puts our people and customers first. We are inspired by our purpose of Enabling Engineering Breakthrough that Lead to a Better Tomorrow.

The fabrication scheduler will review demand triggers to issue jobs in support of production needs. This role will work closely with other schedulers to optimize the kanban system, while prioritizing and expediting key components out of CNC and injection molding departments to support assembly.

Your Main Responsibilities:

Determine assembly priorities by utilizing PDN systems and tools to meet customer demand

• Support cross-functional activities with buyers, internal manufacturing, sales, and shipping/receiving teams to ensure a smooth supply chain
• Primary contact for matters regarding fabrication schedule status or changes
• Communicate potential shortages to production schedulers, customer service, and operations
• Complete regular optimization of machine kanban loops for maximum manufacturing efficiency while maintaining desired inventory levels for assembly
• Perform capacity and material availability analysis to assist with labor and overtime decisions
• Participate in meetings to identify any supply risks and recommend actions to mitigate
• Apply continuous improvement techniques and methods to internal processes and systems
• Evaluate, recommend, and implement changes to the overall fabrication planning process consistent with continuous improvement goals
• May lead or be assigned to a special project team
• Share functional knowledge with others through training and mentorship opportunities
• Actively participate in LEAN and Cost Reduction Programs
• Focus on PDN metrics including (but not limited to) safety, customer on-time delivery, supplier OTIF, inventory