Production Control Planner

Velocity Restorations • Cantonment, FL

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About The Position

The Production Control Planner builds and owns executable annual, rolling, and weekly production schedules for every Velocity vehicle by build number and station. The role translates the approved production plan into realistic labor and equipment loading, material readiness, and manufacturing orders (MOs), including separate build-to-stock MOs for internally fabricated, machined, assembled, and finished components. This is a dedicated planning and production control role, not a BOM specialist, buyer, shop supervisor, or all-purpose expediter. The ideal candidate can step into the role effective January 2027.

The planner maintains station capacity and scheduling visibility, coordinates changes with Sales and leadership, and identifies bottlenecks and schedule risks. The role manages vehicle and internal component MOs through release, execution monitoring, and closure; runs release-readiness reviews; tracks shortages and internal processing delays; and coordinates accurate closeout and WIP review with Production and Finance. The planner recommends schedule and capacity adjustments but does not approve nonstandard product changes, unapproved spending, new headcount, or shipment release.

The role reports to the Director of Production. During initial implementation, the CEO directly sponsors schedule design, labor-capacity mechanics, and priorities. It is an individual-contributor position with no direct reports. The first 90 days focus on auditing existing planning data and workflows, establishing rolling and frozen schedules and internal MO tracking, and demonstrating reliable manpower loading, reporting, SOPs, and backup coverage.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of hands-on production planning, master scheduling, or production control experience in high-mix, low-volume assembly, fabricated equipment, specialty automotive, marine, aerospace, or a similar environment.
• Proven ability to build a scheduling process where one did not previously operate reliably.
• Strong station-level capacity analysis and constraint-management skills.
• Experience issuing and closing manufacturing orders; working with multilevel BOMs, routings, build-to-stock component orders, outside processing, and ERP/MRP systems such as Fishbowl, NetSuite, or comparable systems.
• Advanced Excel and credible reporting/BI skills.
• Comfort with data quality, dashboards, and thoughtful automation or AI-assisted analysis.
• Strong shop-floor communication, cross-functional follow-through, operational judgment, and escalation discipline.
• Ability to influence without owning all executing departments.
• Ability to move safely around vehicles, equipment, and shop areas.
• Ability to perform frequent standing and walking and occasional bending, reaching, stooping, and lifting/carrying items up to 25 lbs.

Nice To Haves

• Previous management experience is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a 12-month rolling schedule by build number, model, approved options, major milestones, required finish date, and station flow.
• Coordinate schedule changes with Sales and leadership.
• Maintain an 8–12-week finite-capacity lookahead and a controlled 1–2-week execution schedule by vehicle and station.
• Publish a weekly frozen plan with change-approval rules.
• Use approved routings and standard labor hours, productive staffing availability, skill constraints, absenteeism, WIP, tooling, equipment, and outside processing to identify over- and underloading.
• Compare required hours with available productive hours by station and week; flag bottlenecks and recommend sequencing, overtime, or staffing changes for CEO/Cody decision.
• Walk the floor daily to reconcile reported and actual vehicle status and escalate gaps early.
• Create, sequence, release, monitor, and transactionally close vehicle MOs and their station operations from the frozen, approved base and option configuration.
• Create separate, demand-driven build-to-stock and build-to-order MOs for parts requiring internal machining, fabrication, powder coating, subassembly, or other processing before receipt into inventory.
• Define each internal MO’s finished part/revision, quantity, input materials, routing/operation owner, specification, required date, planned labor, quality acceptance, and inventory-receiving transaction.
• Publish the internal MO queue in Velocity View or an approved system with electronic request, department acceptance, committed delivery date, actual completion, and escalation.
• Coordinate with Supply on raw-material readiness and outside operations.
• Track internal processing milestones and make at-risk completed-component dates visible on the same shortage report.
• Ensure the executing department records material and labor consumption, Quality accepts where required, Warehouse receives completed stocked parts, and Finance reconciles discrepancies.
• Run readiness reviews using Engineering-approved BOMs, released options, work instructions, kits, internal MO availability, and labor capacity.
• Route off-BOM items, designs, engineering changes, and customer options to Engineering/Sales approval; update open orders only after release.
• Maintain an integrated station-impact view of shortages, pre-shorts, and internal MO delays; make schedule impacts and proposed recovery visible while Supply owns sourcing and material resolution.
• Escalate unresolved constraints before releasing work to a station and define exceptions requiring CEO/Production authorization rather than silently starting incomplete work.
• Recommend schedule and capacity adjustments; obtain leadership/Sales approval for significant customer promise-date changes.
• Track scheduled versus actual station start/finish, WIP age, bottlenecks, MO timeliness, and open internal orders; communicate changes to functional owners.
• Coordinate rework MOs from documented Quality disposition so material and labor are visible without owning the technical corrective action.
• Coordinate accurate MO closure, as-built status, labor/material variance, and monthly WIP review with Production and Finance.
• Document scheduling SOPs, train backup coverage, and create repeatable dashboard reporting.
• Identify systemic planning errors and process improvements.
• Audit the schedule, station routing and standard-hour data, staffing assumptions, open MOs, and internal-order workflow; present a baseline and first weekly capacity dashboard during the first 30 days.
• Publish a rolling master schedule and controlled frozen weekly schedule; implement build-to-stock internal MOs and electronic ownership/date tracking; start daily readiness and weekly variance reviews during days 31–60.
• Demonstrate accurate weekly manpower loading and station variance reporting, reliable internal MO completion/receipts, SOPs and backup coverage, and corrective actions for top planning/root-cause misses during days 61–90.
• Adapt quickly, step beyond standard role boundaries, contribute to company-wide priorities when needed, and maintain continuous improvement and accountability in support of shop operations.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability, and Aflac coverage available after 60 days.
• 401(k) with company match after 6 months at the next enrollment period.
• Paid time off and paid holidays.
• Company-sponsored events.
• Tool program.
• Merchandise discounts.
• Friendly team environment. Compensation is based on experience and qualifications.

What This Job Offers

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