Process Engineer / Production Planner

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, or a closely related field.
• Equivalent combinations of education, technical training, and directly related manufacturing experience may be considered.
• Three to five years of experience in process engineering, production planning, manufacturing engineering, scheduling, or a related industrial environment is preferred.
• Experience working in a machine shop, quartz-glass fabrication facility, semiconductor-support industry, or precision-manufacturing environment is strongly preferred.
• Experience using an enterprise resource planning system for production scheduling, materials planning, routings, work orders, inventory, and capacity management is required.
• Experience using Epicor ERP is strongly preferred.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, production planning, capacity planning, scheduling, inventory control, and workflow management.
• Ability to read and interpret customer drawings, blueprints, specifications, purchase orders, bills of materials, and manufacturing instructions.
• Knowledge of CNC machining, fabrication, assembly, inspection, material handling, and production-support processes.
• Ability to create and maintain manufacturing routings, work-center sequences, setup standards, labor estimates, and production instructions.
• Ability to evaluate production capacity, equipment availability, labor requirements, material availability, and order priorities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Ability to identify production bottlenecks, scheduling conflicts, material shortages, and process inefficiencies.
• Ability to communicate clearly with Production, Engineering, Quality, Sales, Purchasing, Maintenance, Shipping, and management.
• Proficiency with ERP systems, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, and production-reporting tools.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and respond to changing customer requirements and production conditions.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy when entering, reviewing, and maintaining manufacturing data.
• Ability to work independently while coordinating effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Understanding of quality-control requirements, traceability, revision control, and controlled manufacturing documentation.
• Knowledge of continuous-improvement principles, root-cause analysis, and process standardization.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience with Epicor ERP production planning, job management, scheduling, material requirements planning, labor reporting, and inventory modules.
• Experience with finite-capacity scheduling and production-load analysis.
• Familiarity with quartz-glass fabrication, grinding, polishing, welding, resizing, lathes, CNC machining, wire saws, furnaces, and inspection processes.
• Experience supporting semiconductor, aerospace, medical-device, or other high-precision manufacturing industries.
• Familiarity with ISO 9001 quality-management systems.
• Experience with lean manufacturing, 5S, value-stream mapping, process mapping, Kaizen, and waste-reduction activities.
• Experience establishing standard labor hours, setup times, cycle times, and production-efficiency measurements.
• Familiarity with CAD drawings, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, and engineering-change processes.
• Experience creating dashboards, reports, or key performance indicators related to utilization, efficiency, capacity, backlog, and on-time delivery.
• Knowledge of purchasing lead times, inventory planning, safety stock, and supplier coordination.