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Assistant Manager - Production

ELANTAS
Schenectady, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 10/15/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/13/2026
Your responsibilities

Position Summary

Manages the planning and scheduling group to develop production schedules to meet customer demand. Coordinates with customer service, procurement, material handling, manufacturing, and logistics to execute the schedule.

Position Responsibilities

  • Assist the organization to create a safe and healthy working environment by working safely, using equipment provided and following instructions given for health and safety purposes and immediately reporting any unsafe working practices or hazardous working conditions.
  • Manage and develop the planning team to meet organization needs. Provides professional support, guidance, and backup to all Production Planners.
  • Liaison with shop resources, customers, supply chain personnel, quality assurance, production, engineering production-planning personnel and Company leadership to meet production and quality requirements. Works with leaders in those areas to manage issues when escalated.
  • Develop and manage production schedules ensuring efficient and timely delivery of product within budget and other commercial and financial expectations.
  • Recommend suggestions for improvement to process to manager and implement.
  • Work with manager to recommend how SAP works with the physical operations.
  • Physical inventory support as required by Manager - Internal Supply Chain
  • Support material disposal due to expiration and / or quality.
  • Identify and implement process improvements that contribute, but not limited to; reduce waste, reduce inventories, improve service levels and/ or improve machine utilization.
  • Leads weekly planning sessions with production to develop production schedules.
  • Create and maintain up to date SAP master data (BOMs/routings/etc.) and procedures as a subset of Production Planning.
  • ERP MRP super-user
  • The above list describes typical duties and responsibilities and is not intended to limit management from assigning other work as desired

Your profile

  • Bachelors or associate degree in supply chain management or general business or equivalent experience
  • Ten years of relevant experience in production planning, logistics, or production management
  • SAP or equivalent ERP or MRP system experience
  • CPIM (Certified Production and Inventory Management) or CSCP (Certified Supply Chain Professional) preferred
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Must be well disciplined, organized, and structured

Contact Person

Brett Keller

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