.At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.**SUMMARY**Supervises assigned employees to master planning and shop floor control integrity. Resolve shortages and release shop orders to manufacturing within current cycle time. Improves current production and inventory control systems and techniques in order to improve productivity. Responsible for all shop floor control routines, bar coding routines to maintain floor stocking levels and over due quantities at all factory administrative work centers. Responsible to define priorities, expedites, and overtime as needed.**DUTIES**- Evaluates and executes decisions to increase, decrease and release shop orders after reviewing master planning requirements and shop floor control. Priority changes for capital equipment should come from Central Planning. Responsible to communicate priorities to the plant.- Interfaces with Purchasing and vendors when appropriate to expedite parts in order to maintain shop order start dates to manufacturing. Interfaces with Central Planning to provide status on orders, expedites and shipments.- Coordinates, directs and initiates projects to improve efficiency, accuracy and system integrity.- Supervises and directs all administrative functions pertaining to assigned department.- Liaison between manufacturing and information systems. Liaison between shipping and Central Planning. Service priority orders should be requested internally to production control, in order to define priorities in production.- Maintains the accuracy and integrity of Shop Floor Control and assigned material planning administration centers.- Evaluates safety stock requirements.- Support all Company Quality Policies including ISO 9001, EN46001, MDD, FDA, Safety Regulations and ASME codes- Recognize departmental training needs, budgets and conduct training classes as required.- Process employees' performance reviews and salary adjustments in a timely manner.- Ensures operation and practices conform to safety regulations; JHA, PPE, Working Instruction Training Program.**_EXPERIENCE_**- Two (2) to four (4) years related production control experience.- Demonstrated knowledge of material planning, shop floor control, and other production control systems.- One (1) to three (3) years of supervisory experience.- Demonstrated technical knowledge related to area of responsibility**SKILLS**- Excellent organizational, communication, team-building, coaching, and decision making skills.- Effective interpersonal and influence management skills to interact with cross-functional team members.- Nature of Problem Solving- Resolution to a variety of complex problems and issues related to Production Control and Shop Operations.- Empowerment and Decision Making Environment- Increasing/decreasing of MRP Shop Orders as necessary to maintain production flow