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About The Position

Requirements

• 13 years of experience in production planning, production control, scheduling, materials management, or a closely related role.
• Hands-on production planning and scheduling experience in an industrial manufacturing environment.
• Experience using an ERP or MRP system for planning, scheduling, and work order management; any ERP system is acceptable.
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, and formulas.
• Ability to develop and manage build schedules that support customer demand and production capacity.
• Strong understanding of inventory, work-in-progress, and material flow in a manufacturing setting.
• Ability to track jobs through multiple production stages and identify delays, bottlenecks, and constraints.
• Strong communication skills to coordinate with Production, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Customer Service, and Sales.
• Ability to respond quickly to demand changes, expedited orders, and production issues by adjusting schedules and priorities.
• Attention to detail in maintaining production schedules, bills of material, routings, and related documentation.
• Strong ownership and accountability for on-time delivery and schedule adherence.
• Comfort working in an industrial and metals-focused environment and regularly interacting on the manufacturing floor.
• High school diploma.
• Ability to work effectively within a smaller, close-knit team environment.
• Comfort representing customer needs and priorities in planning and production control activities.

Nice To Haves

• Associate or bachelor's degree.
• Experience in manufacturing environments handling metals, such as machine shops or metals-focused production facilities.
• Experience in aerospace, defense, or semiconductor-related manufacturing.
• Familiarity with production planning, scheduling, and supply chain processes in a wire or metals manufacturing context.
• Experience generating and interpreting reports related to on-time delivery, lead times, work-in-progress aging, and inventory discrepancies.
• Exposure to continuous improvement initiatives focused on throughput, cost reduction, lead-time improvement, and production control.

Responsibilities

• Plan, schedule, and release manufacturing work orders based on customer demand, sales forecasts, material availability, production capacity, and business priorities.
• Monitor work orders from release through completion, including the movement of materials and work-in-progress throughout production.
• Coordinate with Production, Purchasing, Warehouse, Logistics, Quality, Engineering, Customer Service, and Sales to align schedules, priorities, materials, resources, and customer commitments.
• Track jobs through production stages to identify delays, bottlenecks, material shortages, quality holds, and other constraints affecting on-time delivery.
• Maintain production schedules in the ERP/MRP system and communicate schedule changes, priority shifts, and recovery plans to stakeholders.
• Monitor inventory levels, safety stock, raw material availability, and component readiness to support schedules and reduce shortages or downtime.
• Adjust schedules and escalate concerns in response to changes in customer demand, expedited requests, late jobs, production constraints, material rejections, or quality issues.
• Collaborate with Quality and Engineering on bills of material, routings, documentation, travelers, certifications, and quality records.
• Apply approved material substitutions when needed to support production continuity and prevent avoidable downtime.
• Provide updates in daily production meetings on key orders, schedule status, constraints, work-in-progress, late jobs, and delivery risks.
• Communicate with Customer Service and Sales about order status, customer changes, expedited requests, and potential delivery impacts.
• Generate, maintain, and review reports and tracking tools for on-time delivery, lead time, work-in-progress aging, schedule adherence, inventory discrepancies, and production flow.
• Assist with inventory audits, ERP data accuracy, work order integrity, and corrective actions for inventory or scheduling discrepancies.
• Coordinate with operations leadership, supply chain leadership, and other planners on priorities, resource planning, and production execution.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives involving throughput, visibility, data accuracy, cost reduction, lead-time improvement, schedule adherence, and production control.
• Represent customer needs within planning and production control activities to help meet customer commitments.
• Plan production at the machine level and manage orders as they move through specific equipment on the shop floor.
• Walk the manufacturing floor regularly after releasing schedules to check progress and address issues affecting production flow.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, subject to eligibility and plan terms.
• Critical illness, accident, and hospital coverage, subject to eligibility and plan terms.
• 401(k) retirement plan with pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions, subject to eligibility and plan terms.
• Voluntary life insurance and AD&D for the employee and dependents, subject to eligibility and plan terms.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage, subject to eligibility and plan terms.
• Health Spending Account (HSA), subject to eligibility and plan terms.
• Transportation benefits, subject to eligibility and plan terms.
• Employee Assistance Program, subject to eligibility and plan terms.
• Time off or leave, which may include PTO, vacation, or sick leave, subject to eligibility and plan terms.