Manufacturing Coordinator

As a Manufacturing Coordinator at Gowan Milling, your role encompasses various critical responsibilities. You'll coordinate shipping and receiving activities, track daily production, manage material usage, and collaborate with production supervisors. Additionally, you’ll work directly with customer representatives to arrange appropriate delivery dates and handle customer production invoicing, all while documenting logistics activities meticulously.

To be a successful Manufacturing Coordinator at Gowan Milling, you should possess strong verbal and written communication skills, familiarity with ERP systems like SAP, and a working knowledge of shipping and receiving procedures. A high school diploma is required, while a bachelor's degree and relevant experience are preferred, enhancing your candidacy.

Gowan Milling looks for candidates with interpersonal skills, organizational ability, and a solid understanding of mathematics related to tasks like formulations and inventory management. Experience with front office procedures is also important, as you'll be performing various switchboard and documentation tasks in addition to logistic coordination.

As a Manufacturing Coordinator at Gowan Milling, you should be prepared for occasional physical activity on the plant site. This includes the ability to lift objects ranging from 5 to 30 lbs, as well as bend, twist, stoop, kneel, push, pull, and crawl during various tasks throughout your day.

The Manufacturing Coordinator plays a vital role at Gowan Milling, ensuring effective logistics and communication between production teams, customers, and management. By facilitating smooth shipping and receiving processes and handling invoicing, you directly contribute to the efficiency and success of our operations in the agricultural industry.

In a fast-paced role like that of a Manufacturing Coordinator, effective prioritization is key. When answering, illustrate your approach to assessing urgency and importance, such as using a matrix to categorize tasks. Highlight any tools or techniques you use to manage time and ensure deadlines are met.

Discuss your proficiency with ERP systems, especially those like SAP or JD Edwards E1, and provide specific examples of how you've used them to track production or manage inventory. Emphasize any achievements that illustrate your ability to leverage these systems for better operational efficiency.

Describe your approach to conflict resolution, emphasizing your communication skills. Share a specific instance where you successfully navigated a disagreement, focusing on the steps you took to reach a resolution and the positive outcome that followed.

Accuracy in logistics documentation is critical. Discuss your systematic approach—maybe you double-check entries, use templates, or implement checklists. Mention how these practices have helped you maintain high accuracy rates in previous roles.

Highlight your unique skills and experiences that would enhance the team's capabilities. Focus on your ability to streamline processes, improve communication, or enhance productivity through your organizational skills and proactive attitude.

Explain your strategies for maintaining motivation, such as setting personal goals, taking short breaks, or finding new efficiencies in your workflow. Share how these practices enhance your productivity and job satisfaction.

Provide a specific example where you identified an inefficiency and proposed a solution that resulted in improved outcomes. Detail the steps you took, the challenges you faced, and the positive impact on the team or company.

Reflect on a key strength that aligns with the requirements of the Manufacturing Coordinator role. Provide specific examples demonstrating this strength in action, especially how it has positively affected your work and contributed to team goals.

Discuss your proactive approach to identifying and addressing the cause of delays. Emphasize communication with the team, evaluating processes, and implementing corrective actions, while ensuring that all stakeholders are informed throughout.

Discuss the quality metrics you’ve tracked in past roles, such as production rates, error rates, or customer satisfaction scores. Explain how tracking these metrics helped improve processes, enhance product quality, or align with industry standards.