Expeditor

Ascentec Engineering is seeking an Expeditor for our Dallas, Oregon facility who will be responsible for actively driving follow-up on urgent material, supplier, job, and production constraints that impact schedule execution and customer delivery commitments. This role supports planning, scheduling, purchasing, production, inventory control, and quality by identifying blockers, obtaining status updates, and helping move priority work through the system.

The Expeditor does not own the master schedule but plays a critical role in protecting the schedule by ensuring late, urgent, or constrained items receive timely attention and action. This position supports past due recovery, shortage resolution, job movement, PO follow-up, and escalation of issues that prevent production from executing as planned.

This position is on-site (not remote/not hybrid) and not eligible for Visa sponsorship or transfer of Visa sponsorship.

1. Material and Supplier Expediting

• Follow-up on late, urgent, or at-risk purchase orders that impact production schedules
• Coordinate with purchasing to obtain supplier status, updated promise dates, and recovery plans
• Escalate supplier delays that may impact customer commitments or production priorities
• Monitor material shortage reports and help drive timely updates
• Support dock, receiving, inspection, and inventory follow-up when expedited material arrives
• Communicate material recovery status to planning, scheduling, and production teams

2. Production Job Expediting

• Track critical jobs through the production process to support schedule execution
• Follow up on jobs that are late, stalled, on hold, awaiting inspection, or blocked by constraints
• Coordinate with production leads, supervisors, quality, and planning to understand next steps
• Support priority movement through machining, deburr, assembly, cleanroom, inspection, outside processing, or other required operations
• Identify and escalate issues preventing jobs from moving forward
• Support recovery efforts for past due and customer critical jobs

3. Constraint and Action Tracking

• Maintain visibility to open constraints affecting production or material availability
• Track owner, action needed, due date, and current status for expedited items
• Follow up with responsible parties to ensure actions are completed timely
• Escalate unresolved issues to the appropriate planner, scheduler, buyer, or manager
• Support daily shortage meetings, production meetings, and past due recovery reviews
• Help ensure urgent issues do not get lost between departments

4. System and Report Updates

• Use Epicor Kinetic, Planet Together APS, Excel, and other reports to identify late or at-risk items
• Update trackers, comments, notes, or status fields as required by department process
• Ensure expediting status is clear, current, and visible to stakeholders
• Identify data discrepancies that impact expediting accuracy and escalate for correction
• Support cleanup of open actions related to shortages, late Pos, job holds, or past due work

5. Cross-Functional Communication

• Communicate regularly with purchasing, planning, scheduling, production, inventory control, quality, and receiving
• Provide clear and timely status updates on critical items
• Help coordinate handoffs between departments when urgent work requires immediate attention
• Support customer escalation responses by providing current internal status and recovery timing
• Build strong working relationships across the shop floor and support teams

6. Continuous Improvement Support

• Identify recurring causes of expedited work, late supply, or blocked jobs
• Provide feedback to planners, schedulers, buyers, and managers on process gaps
• Support improvements to shortage review, job tracking, receiving flow, and escalation processes
• Help document expediting processes and standard work
• Promote proactive issue resolution instead of reactive fire fighting

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Required:

• 1 years of experience in manufacturing, production control, planning support, purchasing support, inventory control, or expediting
• Ability to follow up consistently and drive action across multiple departments
• Basic understanding of work orders, purchase orders, inventory, and production flow
• Strong communication skills and sense of urgency
• Ability to manage multiple open issues and maintain accurate status updates
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, email, and production reports

Preferred:

• Experience using Epicor Kinetic or similar ERP system
• Experience in aerospace, semiconductor, machining, or contract manufacturing
• Familiarity with production schedules, shortage reports, and supplier follow-up
• Experience working with receiving, inspection, inventory control, or shop floor teams
• Ability to read basic job, PO, inventory, and routing information

Competencies:

• Strong sense of urgency and follow-through
• Organized and detailed oriented
• Clear communicator across departments
• Persistent and professional when driving updates
• Able to prioritize urgent issues effectively
• Comfortable working on the shop floor and with system reports
• Proactive in escalating risks and removing blockers
• Collaborative and service oriented

MEASURES OF SUCCESS:

The following metrics and outcomes will be used to evaluate performance in this role:

• Timely follow-up on critical shortages, POs, and blocked jobs
• Improved visibility to urgent material and production constraints
• Reduction in unresolved or aging expedite items
• Support of past due backlog recovery
• Accurate and current status updates for priority items
• Faster escalation of issues impacting customer commitments
• Improved communication between planning, purchasing, production, quality, and receiving
• Reduction in schedule disruption caused by missed follow-up
• Contribution to documented processes and standard work

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Frequent manufacturing floor presence required for job status follow-up and constraint resolution
• Standard business hours with flexibility needed to support urgent production priorities
• Frequent use of Epicor Kinetic, Planet Together APS, Excel, email, and production
• The employee must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily and, if requested, reasonable accommodations will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job, absent undue hardship. The employer retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position.

Compensation / Benefits:

• $23 to $28 per hour DOE
• Paid time off / Holiday pay
• Medical/Dental/Vision Coverage
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• 401(k) with matching funds
• Profit sharing eligibility
• Educational aid program availability

Applicant must be able to pass a drug screen and criminal background check prior to employment.

ITAR REQUIREMENTS: To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Ascentec Engineering is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Ascentec Engineering is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.