Lead Production Coordinator

MW Components • Fenton, MO

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About The Position

The Lead Production Coordinator manages day-to-day production scheduling and control across manufacturing departments to support customer delivery commitments and operational efficiency. The role analyzes workload, labor availability, machine capacity, inventory, and material constraints to set priorities, address scheduling conflicts, monitor order progress, and resolve risks that may affect delivery, inventory investment, or manufacturing performance. It also serves as the point of contact for EDI customers regarding priority order scheduling and follows those orders through production to delivery.

The position maintains production planning data in the ERP system, resolves work order and planning exceptions, and determines appropriate actions for releases, rescheduling, inventory allocation, and production priorities. It analyzes production metrics and system recommendations, identifies flow constraints, and leads or participates in improvement initiatives. The coordinator works across production, purchasing, customer service, quality, and engineering, and supports management with recommendations, capacity planning, workforce utilization, procedures, and user training. The role follows company quality, safety, and other policies and performs additional production and operational support duties as assigned.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate daily production schedules across manufacturing departments to meet customer delivery commitments and operational efficiency goals.
• Analyze workload, labor availability, machine capacity, inventory levels, and material constraints to determine production priorities.
• Evaluate competing production demands and recommend schedule adjustments based on business impact, customer commitments, and available resources.
• Monitor order progress and take corrective action to address schedule risks and bottlenecks.
• Facilitate communication among production supervisors, planners, customer service, purchasing, and quality personnel regarding priority changes and schedule modifications.
• Serve as the point of contact for EDI customers on priority order scheduling and follow orders through production to delivery.
• Determine day-to-day production order priorities within established business guidelines.
• Recommend schedule modifications, inventory allocation decisions, and resource prioritization based on operational requirements.
• Identify and resolve production control issues that could affect customer deliveries, inventory investment, or manufacturing performance.
• Maintain the integrity of production planning data in the ERP system.
• Review and resolve work order exceptions, shortages, routing discrepancies, transaction issues, and planning system errors.
• Determine appropriate actions for order releases, rescheduling, inventory reallocation, or production priority changes.
• Develop and implement improvements to work order processing and production control procedures.
• Analyze system-generated planning recommendations and determine appropriate execution strategies.
• Analyze production metrics, including schedule attainment, throughput, on-time delivery performance, work-in-process inventory, and resource utilization.
• Identify production flow constraints and recommend corrective actions to management.
• Lead or participate in process improvement initiatives to improve manufacturing efficiency and customer service performance.
• Develop reports and recommendations for operations leadership concerning production performance and scheduling effectiveness.
• Coordinate resolution of production and scheduling conflicts among departments.
• Work with purchasing to address material shortages and develop recovery plans.
• Collaborate with customer service regarding delivery commitments and order priorities.
• Coordinate with quality and engineering when production issues affect customer requirements or manufacturing schedules.
• Support management with capacity planning and workforce utilization decisions.
• Recommend production priorities and resource allocations to management.
• Assist in developing standard operating procedures for production planning and order management.
• Train users on ERP and production control processes as needed.
• Act as a subject matter resource for production control and work order management practices.
• Follow established quality, safety, and company policies and procedures.
• Perform other production and operational support duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed