Job Summary:

Provides input to management, reschedules, and/or interfaces with planner buyers, marketing, sales, production, and engineering managers to reschedule in case of design changes, material shortages, backlogs changes, and other potential schedule interruptions.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Acts on order releases action and exception messages from the company system.
Plans, schedules, coordinates, and/or final approval of products through the complete production cycle.
Coordinates production plans to ensure materials are provided according to schedules.
Review job costs to ensure proper materials charges have occurred.
Assist cycle count team to ensure inventory accuracy.
Responsible for all job closing from manufacturing and filling of shortages.
Support all month-end activities related to above duties.
Analyzes sales order releases with respect to capacity planning and material requirements.
Ensures shipping dates are on schedule.
Ensures materials and outside resources are available for assigned projects.
Expedite operations that delay schedules.
Place Purchase Orders, when assigned
Uses factory tools for scheduling and inventory shortages
Expedites orders, troubleshoots, and coordinates with production, delivery, receiving and purchasing personnel.
Analyzes inventories to maintain lowest possible inventory level while still meeting customer order requirements.
Establishes production schedules for finished good parts within material constraints.
Prepares job orders and documentation folders to meet MPS in quantity and timing.
Works directly with Planner/Buyers for order priorities and expedites.
Checks material availability of all components prior to order confirmation.
Communicates scheduling issues and advises affective party.
Interfaces with manufacturing personnel, the purchasing department and supervisors on material status and production planning issues.
Performs other duties as required.

Supervisory Responsibilities: No

Computer Skills and/or Tools: MS Office and Expandable II or other MRP software preferred.

Qualifications/Competencies: To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

12 months of experience working with Material Requirement systems preferably in high volume, R&D, NPI environments
Ability to work well under pressure.
Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to manage changing priorities, stay organized, and pay attention to details in a fast-paced environment
Experience with ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) is preferred, but not required

Education and/or Experience: BS or BA in related field

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 55 pounds. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.

Comtech Xicom Technology, founded as Xicom Technology in 1991, has grown to be a world leading satellite communications (satcom) amplifier supplier, offering the broadest product line in the industry. Our focus on customers, innovation, and quality has driven growth and created a company with a reputation for excellence. Regarded as an industry leader across the board, Xicom provides rugged, highly efficient and reliable Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers (TWTAs), Klystron Power Amplifiers (KPAs), Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs), and Block Upconverters (BUCs) for commercial and military broadcast and broadband applications around the world. These Xicom High Power Amplifiers (HPAs) are in use in critical communications links on the ground, in the air and on the sea; they support fixed traditional and direct-to-home broadcast, mobile news gathering, transportable and flyaway systems, secure high data rate communications, and broadband access over satcom. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.