Production Controller (Scheduling)

Air National Guard Units • Elmendorf AFB, AK

1d

About The Position

The Production Controller advises, plans, and coordinates aircraft maintenance requirements and utilization scheduling across maintenance, operations, and external organizations. The role participates in the Wing Flying Hour Working Group, supports planning and execution of the Wing’s Flying Hour Allocation process, and verifies flying-hour allocations with Wing Operations Group and, as directed, NGB AVDO and the Flying Hour Analyst. The position manages assigned commodity areas, including airframe, engine, components, and special projects, and uses maintenance information systems and databases to prepare reports, charts, and graphs for senior maintenance management.

The role supports daily, weekly, and monthly scheduling as well as quarterly and annual planning. It evaluates workload forecasts, maintenance requirements, and resource availability; allocates resources and work; monitors work in process; and coordinates changing priorities with work-center supervisors. The Production Controller also supports aircraft availability, configuration management, aircraft records accuracy, aircraft transfers, programmed depot maintenance schedules, job standard master listings, and weapon-system time compliance and time change programs.

This is a T5 Excepted Service appointment with the Alaska National Guard. The position is designated as Essential Personnel and may be called to duty in preparation for or response to a state emergency or disaster. Irregular or overtime hours may be required. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, meet federal employment suitability requirements, and obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance. A one-year trial period applies with veterans’ preference, or a two-year trial period without it.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship.
• Federal employment suitability as determined by a background investigation.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance for the position.
• Ability to establish effective professional working relationships with coworkers and customers and contribute to a cooperative working environment.
• Must be registered for Selective Service when applicable.
• GS-09: At least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-07 grade level.
• General experience, education, or training demonstrating quantitative reasoning, clear oral and written communication, and understanding of repair-operations terminology and production-process characteristics.
• Experience scheduling workflow in more than one area and coordinating products or materials from support activities.
• Experience performing or supervising journeyman-level work in a production facility.
• Experience preparing job or work orders; scheduling project phases; monitoring progress; and arranging adjustments to materials, machine processes, or work sequencing when conditions change.
• Experience using current automation support programs to input data, report equipment status, monitor job-order status and work priorities, requisition repair parts, and track repair-parts status.
• Resume must provide complete employment dates and hours worked per week for each civilian and military position; year-only dates may result in disqualification.
• Resume must describe duties in sufficient detail to substantiate the required specialized experience.
• Irregular and/or overtime hours may be required, including hours outside the normal duty day.
• May be required to serve in preparation for or response to a state emergency or disaster, subject to the stated limits and approvals.

Responsibilities

• Advise, plan, and coordinate aircraft maintenance requirements and utilization scheduling among maintenance, operations, and external organizations.
• Participate in the Wing Flying Hour Working Group and plan, schedule, and execute the Wing’s Flying Hour Allocation process.
• Verify and reconcile unit flying-hour allocations with Wing Operations Group and, as directed, NGB AVDO and the Flying Hour Analyst.
• Manage assigned major commodity areas: airframe, engine, components, and special projects.
• Develop, analyze, and evaluate maintenance information system reports and database outputs, including charts and graphs, for senior maintenance management.
• Participate in daily, weekly, and monthly scheduling and quarterly and yearly planning programs and meetings.
• Communicate potential over-utilization conditions to leadership.
• Analyze and improve repair processes, methods, procedures, and standards.
• Research the causes of missed maintenance-related scheduled events and document findings as required.
• Develop local procedures for scheduling engines and support equipment, and write and publish guidance for aircraft document reviews.
• Review immediate and long-range requirements using workload forecasts and condition-based maintenance information, and develop plans to obtain resources for production requirements.
• Allocate resources and distribute work to meet production commitments as scheduled.
• Evaluate progress and resource availability, communicate changing priorities to work-center supervisors, and deconflict maintenance activities.
• Monitor and update work-in-process status.
• Coordinate extension requests with the office of primary responsibility to maximize aircraft availability; initiate, validate, and submit time-change extension requests as needed.
• Manage the Configuration Management program and maintain historical documents and maintenance data for accurate aircraft records.
• Review and report the status of decentralized records to the maintenance operations flight supervisor.
• Serve as wing Aerospace Vehicle Distribution Officer, coordinate aircraft transfers between organizations, and generate required documentation, including AFTO Form 103.
• Participate in developing and maintaining the Programmed Depot Maintenance schedule for assigned aircraft and equipment.
• Develop and maintain job standard master listings for assigned equipment in the maintenance information system in coordination with functional work centers.
• Manage assigned weapon-system Time Compliance Technical Order programs and chair TCTO planning meetings.
• Manage assigned weapon-system Time Change Items programs, identifying, monitoring, forecasting, and scheduling items specified in applicable regulations and instructions.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package available to the employee and family, subject to eligibility and position type.
• Cost of Living Allowance of 1.49% in addition to base salary, subject to change.

What This Job Offers

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