Production Control Lead
Advantage MetalworkCompany Overview Advantage Metalwork is a custom sheet metal fabrication company with machining, fabrication, finishing, and assembly operations. It serves a wide range of industries with custom, high-quality, low-volume, high-mix products. Overview As Production Control Lead, you’ll coordinate production planning and scheduling to keep work moving across manufacturing operations. You’ll use production management systems and supply chain information to align priorities, communicate across teams, and support reliable delivery. Your impact: Clear schedules and timely coordination help production teams meet customer needs while supporting quality and efficient use of resources. Duties Work with Purchasing, Engineering, Operations to ensure all material is here in a timely manner using lead time offsets such that product is produced in a timely manner. This means schedule the job in the priority order agreed upon with management Provide Machining with direction as to what Fabrication deliverables are required each month and develop a plan/schedule – visibility to this schedule needs to be provided and if something needs to be outsourced then work with Purchasing to have these delivered from the outside. Ensure Master schedule is accurate and current using Management and Analysts who will provide clerical updates. Communicate to Analyst monthly objectives out of S&OP meeting. Develop and track on time delivery performance KPI and other metrics Provide Sales Team with required updates on status as required Communicate critical issues to Management in a timely manner Provide tools and necessary reports to provide visibility/direction to Management to ensure we meet our monthly goals/targets Chair and lead daily production meeting Requirements Experience in production management, manufacturing management, production control, or operations management. Ability to schedule customer jobs in a low volume, high mix, custom sheet metal fabrication operation Utilization of best practices such as OTD metrics, capacity planning, etc Strong use of MRP (Material Requirements Planning) 5-10 Operations experience; Metal fabrication and paint a plus Strong communications and organizational skills Ability to facilitate and work in a multi-functional team environment Expected hours: 40.0 per week Benefits: 401(k) Dental insurance Health insurance Health savings account Life insurance Paid time off Parental leave Vision insurance Work Location: In person