Assistant Production Control Manager

WHO WE ARE . . .

We are ME Global Inc. We are headquartered in Minneapolis, MN and we operate two Foundry Plants in North America. One Foundry is in Tempe, AZ and the other is in Duluth, MN. We have been in business for over 100 years and have over 1000 team members operating in 5 different continents around the world. We produce metal castings for grinding media, mill liners, crushing liners, and slag pots with optimal designs and alloys specifically developed for the global mining, aggregate, and recycle industries. Our products are used in over 40 countries.

ABOUT THE ROLE . . .

Assist Production Control Manager in the coordination, planning, directing and controlling production planning and scheduling for ME Global manufacturing facilities.

Principal Accountabilities:

1. Develops high level production scheduling to maximize customer deliveries and operational excellence.
2. Develops and administers effective production level loading across manufacturing plants to maximize working capital efficiencies, reduce turnover, and exceed budget objectives.
3. Identify, manage, and resolve production overruns.
4. Monitor customer schedules versus manufacturing production inventory ensuring on time delivery.
5. Provide Sales with real time order status and delivery tracking.
6. Work with Finance to ensure timely and accurate reporting of monthly shipping from all manufacturing sites.
7. Utilize Salesforce to track demand and provide long-range planning, market forecasting, and budgeting.
8. Communicate with Sales, Marketing, Plants, and Finance regarding items that impact customers, operations and/or operating results.

Experience and Education Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field (preferred).
• 3 year’s related experience (manufacturing, supply chain, inventory management).

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to develop, maintain and strengthen partnerships with others inside and outside of the organization.
• Analytical, problem solving, project management, facilitation, and decision-making skills are essential.
• Excellent verbal, written, listening, and presentation skills.
• Strong knowledge of materials in manufacturing environments including various levels of planning from sales and operations planning.
• Experience of Material Requirements Planning (MRP), purchasing, warehousing, scheduling, shipping and/or logistics.
• Self-starter, able to work with or lead cross-functional teams.
• Must be able to work under minimal direct supervision and be willing to take initiative to resolve problems and to help revise and upgrade processes.
• Must possess a high degree of professionalism, adaptability and strong customer service skills including a high level of integrity and commitment to confidentiality.

ATTRIBUTES WE WANT FROM YOU . . .

1. You make it happen doing whatever it takes to get stuff done.
2. You compete, you are hungry, responsive, and follow through on commitments.
3. You set the standard of our values treating others with humility, respect, and dignity.
4. You are a leader regardless of your title and others follow your lead.
5. You practice and promote servant leadership.
6. You display a respected sense of emotional intelligence and act with a high degree of responsibility and integrity.
7. You are curious, creative, and innovative.
8. You deliver winning solutions based on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, and judgment.
9. You build trust and are transparent and open with those around you.
10. You promote the health and sustainability of organization, its people, and the community it serves.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU . . .

• We offer top pay in the market to partner with the best people and the best talent.
• We reward team success with quarterly bonus payments when we achieve our goals.
• Innovative and rich benefit programs without the rich costs for our people.
• Outstanding savings and retirement programs with strong company contributions.
• Work life balance is BIG! Enjoy 3 weeks vacation, 11 holidays, and 48hrs of sick time yearly.
• Personal, professional, and financial growth with our local and global job opportunities.
• Strong job stability from 100 years of experience in the growing global mining industry.

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR . . .

The next 100 years has started. Apply to begin our journey together!