.**Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities**- Assures that all members of the Supply Chain department follow all Good Manufacturing Practices and Procedures as defined by Nordson Medical's polices ensuring that FDA and Quality Standards are met.- Develops and implements long term departmental goals that ensure effectiveness and efficiency in Supply Chain activities.- Effectively manage team members by determining clear roles and responsibilities, managing workload and holding team accountable to deliverables, identifying development needs, and coach team members as needed.- Supervises, coaches, and evaluates personnel in site, production control, master planner, warehousing, shipping, and receiving.- Establish programs and works with Purchasing in order to deliver and track continuous material cost reductions.- Maintains a safe and healthy work environment by implementing, maintaining, and aligning company policies and procedures.- Prepare and make presentations related to department responsibilities and participate in management reviews as appropriate.**Production Control**:- Establishes standard practices and supervises for adherence and accuracy, and will perform as needed, to develop a production master schedule by analyzing customer demand, monitoring and assessing material inventories, developing a material requirements plan, and tracking production capacity and times and reviewing other factors that affect schedules.- Ensures that order confirmation dates are provided in a timely manner as required based on appropriate master scheduling activities.- Implements process to communicate production schedule to Production on a routine basis and sets up daily, weekly, and monthly processing routine to monitor shop order status and issues, which outputs required customer order and shipment status updates and assures on time delivery to customers.- Analyze customer forecasts and identify issues with capacity, material availability, etc. that may risk meeting future customer demand.- Effectively communicates and escalates as needed issues that arise which may delay on time delivery. Develops alternative delivery dates when needed and works with Customer Service to update system as needed and provides information to make necessary communication to customers.- Creates and maintain recovery plans as needed to be used for both internal production scheduling and customer communication purposes to address customer backlog situations.- Establishes process for providing real time feedback on shop order and delivery status to customer service and production, including providing metrics for schedule attainment (P. vs. A.) and OTD as requested.**Warehouse / Shipping / Receiving**:- Creates policies and procedures that facilitate effective custodianship of inventory and minimize inventory holding costs
