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Toshiba International Corporation is a world leader in the design and manufacture of motors, motor controls and power electronics products. Many of these products are designed, built and tested in our 1,000,000 square foot state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Houston, TX. We have developed a totally integrated manufacturing process from research and development, design, engineering, production and manufacturing to after-market service and sales & marketing. Toshiba differentiates itself from its competitors through its commitment to quality and reliability. We build products to perform in the most difficult conditions. From raw material to the finished product, we assure exacting quality, engineering excellence and stringent testing to meet domestic and international performance standards.

Job Summary:

Plan and schedule long range and short range manufacturing processes for inverters and UPS`s.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze capacity requirements planning reports and recommend corrective action to remedy overload and under load capacity problems.
• General understanding of production processes and constraints is of high importance.
• Must stay current on capacity and production line utilization.
• Requires daily interaction and one on one meetings with Production Staff.
• Coordinate daily maintenance of the current production schedule for assigned areas.
• Maintain accurate supply planning schedules and review with Supply Chain Management.
• Communicate as required daily production plans to all departments and keep staff informed of any material, equipment, or production issues.
• Participate in and support plant management efforts for improvements to plant efficiency.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of all products manufactured by the plant and production process.
• Assist with reviewing items that need to be rescheduled, interact with Material Buyers on components due dates, and follow up on and take action to ensure they get back into schedule as soon as possible.
• Release manufacturing orders and follow order progress to completion while tracking and recording reasons for misses to production schedule.
• Maintain scheduling spreadsheets and production graphs to support monthly department Metrics as requested. Maintain PC, label printer. Coordinate and participate with Cycle Counts for assigned work area.
• Maintain and coordinate Service part orders.
• Reconcile Cycle Count Activities and submit completed results for appropriate approvals.
• Maintain a clean work area in accordance with 5S housekeeping procedures. Interact with Customer Service to provide production lead time for customer quotes.
• Prepare Job Packets for production lines.
• Other activities as assigned by Department Supervisor or Manager.

• Limited as needed