Lead Production Coordinator
About The Position
The Lead Production Coordinator manages daily production scheduling and production control across manufacturing departments to support customer delivery commitments and operational efficiency. The role evaluates workload, labor and machine capacity, inventory, and material constraints; sets day-to-day order priorities within established guidelines; monitors order progress; and recommends or takes corrective action to address risks, bottlenecks, and conflicting demands. It coordinates schedule changes among production, customer service, purchasing, quality, and other teams, and serves as the point of contact for EDI customers on priority order scheduling through production and delivery. The position maintains production planning data in the ERP system and addresses work order exceptions, shortages, routing discrepancies, transaction issues, and planning errors. It analyzes production performance and planning recommendations, develops improvements to work order processing and control procedures, and reports findings and recommendations to operations leadership. The coordinator also supports continuous improvement, capacity and workforce planning, standard operating procedures, user training, and management decisions on production priorities and resource allocation. The role follows established quality, safety, and company policies and performs other assigned production and operational support duties.
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 conflicting 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.
- Coordinate communication about priority changes and schedule modifications among production supervisors, planners, customer service, purchasing, and quality personnel.
- Serve as the point of contact for EDI customers regarding 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 within 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, and 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, 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 on 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 on delivery commitments and order priorities.
- Coordinate with quality and engineering when production issues affect customer requirements or manufacturing schedules.
- Support management in capacity planning and workforce utilization decisions.
- Recommend production priorities and resource allocation 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
