Administrative Coordinator

Overview
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Responsibilities
Meet the Recruiter: Danielle Lomeli
Summary
Join us at Panasonic Energy as we expand to De Soto, Kansas, where we're building the world's largest lithium-ion battery factory. This is an exciting opportunity to grow your career while contributing to the future of electric vehicles. As part of our team, you'll help push the limits of battery technology, enhancing performance and efficiency in sustainable transportation.

Our state-of-the-art facility, just outside the Kansas City Metro, will be a hub for innovation in green energy solutions. If you're passionate about sustainability and eager to contribute to the electric vehicle revolution, we invite you to be part of our dynamic team. Join us and make a meaningful impact on the future of energy and transportation.

• Shift: 6:45 PM - 7:15 AM Nights, B-Shift (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday & every other Wednesday)

Job Summary
Administrative Coordinator supports production and production administrative activities in the areas of MES registration transactions and oversite; act as a liaison between external and internal departments to ensure overall operational success.

Furthermore, responsibilities include leading daily activities with little management oversight, multitasking in a high-volume production environment, and using exceptional interpersonal skills with a highly adaptable attitude.

Additionally, this role supports team supervisor and leadership in coordination of department extracurricular activities, assists with official communications, and leads by example in providing superior level of service and timeliness with all internal and external requests.

Essential Duties
Functional Operations:

• Execute daily MES tasks from start to finish
• Record production data, including daily production, scrap, and defect inventories
• Investigate discrepancies or losses in MES reporting
• Provide detailed information on MES lot registration issues and how to resolve them
• Support the Inventory team during monthly hard counts
• Monitor and report trends in supply ordering, loss amounts, and other production items
• Operate and maintain tools and equipment within the functional area
• Must be able to work all scheduled shift hours

Performance Optimization & Continuous Improvement

• Monitor and report trends in supply ordering, loss amounts, and other production items

Training & Team Support

• Support the Supervisor in organizing celebratory activities or events
• Assist the Supervisor with department communications
• Support incoming new employee onboarding activities on a weekly basis
• Provide training to others at the same or lower level within the functional area

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Communication

• Collaborate with production support teams to create Requests for Approval RFA
• Coordinate and schedule meetings for the GM SPM and APMs
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve issues in a timely manner

Quality Safety & Compliance

• Follow retention compliance standards for production documentation as set by Quality leaders
• Collect and prepare presentations and department data daily
• Manage department lockers including maintenance and allocation
• Ensure proper implementation of processes and procedures to meet industry regulatory and customer standards
• Perform additional duties as assigned by leadership

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Requirements

• To ensure the health and safety in the workplace and for the protection of our employees', wearing PPE is a possibility and includes equipment such as a full Tyvek suit, safety shoes, gloves, safety glasses, face mask, and a full hazmat suit that includes a respirator. Respirator fit test will be required based on functional area.

The foregoing description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills and efforts or work conditions associated with the job. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the general nature and level of the job.
Qualifications
Qualifications - Required and/or Preferred
Education

• Required: High school diploma, GED or 2 years of prior experience in functional area

Essential Qualifications

• Must possess ability to adjust positively to changes in work environment
• Proficient in Excel, must work with multiple spreadsheets, create, and manage complex formulas and conditional formatting
• Must be detail oriented
• Knowledge of maintenance and material control procedures
• Able to analyze maintenance and material data
• Ability to multi-task across multiple data collection systems tracking and monitoring data to meet requirements
• Proficient skills in MS Office (Word, Power Point, Excel, Outlook)
• Must be able to type using a standard keyboard to communicate through e-mail and various software applications

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of administrative experience
• Manufacturing/production administration experience
• Alignment to Panasonic's seven (7) core principles (contribution to society, fairness and honesty, cooperation and team spirit, untiring effort for improvement, courtesy and humility, adaptability, gratitude)

Physical Demands
Physical Activities:
Percentage of time (equaling 100%) during the normal workday the employee is required to:

• Sit: 40%
• Walk: 40%
• Stand: 20%

Required Lifting and Carrying:
Not required (0%), Occasional (1-33%), Frequent (34-66%, Continuous %)
For This Position The Required Frequency Is

• Up to 10 lbs.: Frequent
• Up to 20 lbs.: Frequent
• Up to 35 lbs.: Frequent
• Team-lift only (over 35 lbs.): Frequent

Benefits & Perks - What's In It For You
Panasonic Energy prioritizes total well-being and offers comprehensive benefits options to support physical, emotional, financial, social, and environmental health:

• Health Benefits - Offering medical, dental, vision, prescription plans, plus Health Savings