ABOUT LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES
Landscape Structures Inc. has been the leading manufacturer of commercial playground equipment in the world for more than 50 years. Our employee-owned company designs community and school playgrounds that encourage kids of all ages and abilities to learn persistence, leadership, competition, bravery, support, and empathy through play. Landscape Structures pushes the limitsof design, inclusion, and playto help kids realize there is no limit to what they can do today and in the future. For a better tomorrow, we play today.
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POSITION SUMMARY
The Workflow Coordinator keeps product moving through a production area - the climbers, panels, posts, and parts that become a playground or splashpad. The role owns the area's process boards, stages jobs in the right order, and paces the work so the area hits its daily targets. When a part goes missing or a machine backs up, the coordinator spots it first and calls for help.
Hours: M-Th, 1:30 P.M. - 11:30 P.M.
VALUES
- Innovation
- Commitment & Passion
- Integrity
- Team & Relationships
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Own the cell's process boards: keep work-order sequencing, staging, and visual signals current every shift.
- Review past-due, hot, and high-priority jobs; stage one-piece-flow work so the cell stays paced to its target rate.
- Spot bottlenecks - machine, material, staffing, or tooling - and work countermeasures with the team lead, maintenance, materials, and planning.
- Locate missing parts, kits, and tooling; escalate within the posted time limit if it is not resolved at the cell.
- Act as the first line of response on product and people concerns; route safety, quality, and personnel issues to the team lead or supervisor.
- Step onto the line as needed so leads, trainers, and operators can attend training, audits, or improvement work.
- Coordinate hot jobs and shifting priorities with upstream and downstream cells when an issue affects customer commitments.
- Give real-time updates on schedule changes, equipment downtime, and material shortages to the partners who need to know.
ATTRIBUTES
- Action Oriented: Takes pride in their work; pursues work with energy, drive, and a need to finish; enjoys seeing work completed; is action oriented and full of energy for the things they see as challenging; not fearful of acting with a minimum of planning; seizes more opportunities than others.
- Composure: Is cool under pressure; does not become defensive or irritated when times are tough; is considered mature; can be counted on to hold things together during tough times; can handle stress; is not knocked off balance by the unexpected; doesn’t show frustration when resisted or blocked; is a settling influence in a crisis.
- Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Directing Others & Job Planning: Is good at establishing clear directions; distributes the workload appropriately; lays out work in a well-planned and organized manner; maintains two-way dialogue with others on work and results; brings out the best in people; is a clear communicator; Accurately scopes out length and difficulty of tasks and projects; sets objectives and goals; breaks down work into the process steps; anticipates and adjusts for problems and roadblocks; measures performance against goals; gets proper work completed; escalates when needed; assigns tasks with fairness and efficiency in mind.
- Problem Solving: Uses lean or problem-solving tools (including LSI tools) to solve difficult problems; knows which resources to use and when; can see hidden problems; looks beyond the obvious and doesn't stop at the first answers.
- Planning and Priority Setting: Spends their time and the time of others on what’s important; develops schedules and task/people assignments; eliminates roadblocks; understands how decisions impact up and down stream customers and organizational goals; accurately scopes out length and difficulty of tasks and projects; measures performance against goals; identifies, understands, and acts upon department trends; evaluates results.
- Delegating: Delegates both routine tasks and decisions appropriately and when needed; may delegate tasks to team members but is ultimately responsible for the output; ensures time and resources are in place, giving team members time to complete tasks; equitably and fairly assigns tasks among team members.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years in a manufacturing production, materials, or shop-floor coordination role.
- Working knowledge of production scheduling and tracking work-in-process through a cell.
- Comfortable using the production information system and spreadsheets to track jobs, parts, and rates.
- Able to read prints, job sheets, and standard-work documents.
- Strong written and verbal communication for coordinating across the floor, support teams, and leadership.
- Basic math for capacity, rate, and pacing calculations.
- Able to flex hours when the schedule demands it.
- High school diploma or GED preferred.
- Associate's degree in manufacturing operations, supply chain, or business.
- Prior experience as an operator in the cell you coordinate.
- Understanding of lean principles - pull, takt, one-piece flow, and level loading.
- Experience building simple production dashboards or daily-management boards.
- A supply-chain or production-and-inventory-management certification.
- Forklift or powered-industrial-truck certification.
The target hourly range is $22.00 - $27.00, depending upon qualifications and experience. This position qualifies for a shift differential of $3.00 per hour. The posted pay range reflects the expected compensation for a fully qualified candidate. Starting pay may be above or below this range based on job-related factors such as skills, experience, qualifications, and training needs..
