Plant Co-Ordinator

RESPONSIBILITIES:

a) Line Management Responsibility: Plant PGI Date / Past Due/ Expedite response

b) Financial/Budget Responsibility: Plant monthly shipment target

POSITION COMPETENCIES:

Knowledge & Key Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written) Systematic with strong analytical and problem solving skills Production planning combined with a strong desire to provide customer satisfaction Ability to persist through challenges Good sense of urgency and ability to prioritize Expert level SAP skill set/ Eaxpert level MS XL /

Essential Qualifications/Education: Dimploma in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Science / OR +5 Years experience in planning/ Fulfiment role

Essential Previous Experience: Production / manufacturing ( 5 years – planning or manufacturing ) Experience with SAP (MM and/or PP) Plant Operations

MAIN DUTIES:

• Review & align monthly plant production schedule w/ plant material manager/ MRP planner
  • Understand plant monthly and quarterly production process/ challenges/ schedule changes
  • Understand and analyse plant backlog (Spikes) / past due / identify large-elephant orders
  • Review 30-60 days production plan, ensuring adequate shipment coverage and align any changes with Material Manager/ Planner
  • Work with plant to improve PGI date reliability / monthly plant connect process
  • Work with plant to optimize last week production into shipment conversion

• Align & follow-up with plant/ report to Com-ops on commercial exceptions

• Expedites – CS teams raised expedites: COPC works with the plant & CS to an agreed production schedule for expedited products. Advises CS team on alternate options
  • Prioritization – Product marketing together with fulfilment planner defines product families & customer orders that need to be prioritized: COPC works with plant / marketing teams/ CS towards a agreed production plan for prioritized products
  • Critical to Revenue – Fulfilment Planner define orders which are critical to current month revenue: COPC Work with plant to ensure critical to revenue orders are produced in the month
  • Top 10 customers – Fulfilment Planner review top 10 customer past due and critical orders: COPC works with plant to ensure that top 10 customer past due are beuilt before other non-top 10 customer orders

• Improve Communication between CO/ Plant / Other stakeholders:
  • Own plant - com-ops connect (Summary tab / Key Orders with COIS comments tab/ Expedites tab )
  • Identify/ communicate Out of period order production
  • Report Weekly: Production attainment by MRP/ PGI dates / Past Due / Pull-in’s & push outs/ Etc.
  • Participate on customer calls on invitation from Fulfilment Planner
  • Participate in plant DM’s

• Plant improvement:
  • Participate in productivity & capacity improvement PSP’s
  • Participate in PSI meetings as com-ops representative
  • LT reduction/ changes
  • Represent com-ops in Production Lines Moves

KPI: PGI / Past Due/ Exp resp time / Plant revenue

When you join us, you’ll also be joining Danaher’s global organization, where 80,000 people wake up every day determined to help our customers win. As an associate, you’ll try new things, work hard, and advance your skills with guidance from dedicated leaders, all with the support of powerful Danaher Business System tools and the stability of a tested organization.