Production Control Manager

About Comlux America Comlux America is a world-class VIP aircraft completion and refurbishment center located in Indianapolis, Indiana. The company designs, engineers, and installs custom luxury interiors and advanced aircraft systems for airliner-derivative business jets. Comlux also offers scheduled and unscheduled maintenance services. Specializing in highly customized aircraft, Comlux transforms aircraft into personalized flying environments that reflect exceptional craftsmanship, precision engineering, and uncompromising safety. Role Description The Production Control Manager provides strategic and operational leadership for the four core Production Control functions: Scheduling, Production Planning, Material Planning, and Production Control. This position has overall accountability for integrating production schedules, planning activities, material requirements, and production execution to support on-time aircraft delivery and efficient utilization of labor, materials, equipment, and other operational resources. The Production Control Manager oversees aircraft and fabrication flow from induction through final delivery, using production data, performance metrics, and cross-functional collaboration to identify constraints, mitigate schedule risks, resolve issues, and improve operational performance. The position works closely with Operations, Production, Engineering, Procurement, Quality, Project Management, Finance, and other functional leaders to align production objectives with company priorities and customer commitments. Essential Job Functions Provides overall leadership and accountability for the Scheduling, Production Planning, Material Planning, and Production Control functions. Develops, implements, and maintains integrated production schedules and plans that align aircraft completion requirements, production capacity, material availability, engineering requirements, and customer delivery commitments. Oversees aircraft and fabrication flow from induction through final delivery and proactively identifies constraints, risks, and opportunities that may impact schedule performance. Establishes production control priorities and ensures planning and scheduling activities support organizational and customer commitments. Leads the development and maintenance of production schedules, milestones, forecasts, and recovery plans. Monitors production progress against established schedules and directs appropriate actions when performance falls behind plan. Works with Production leadership to identify capacity constraints, labor requirements, production bottlenecks, and resource conflicts and develops appropriate recovery strategies. Oversees material planning activities to ensure required materials, parts, components, and equipment are available when needed to support production schedules. Partners with Procurement, Inventory Management, Warehousing, and Planning to identify and resolve material shortages, long-lead requirements, supplier delays, and other supply constraints. Ensures effective coordination of material procurement, kitting, staging, and delivery to support uninterrupted production operations. Develops and maintains production control metrics and reporting systems to monitor schedule performance, production status, material availability, capacity, constraints, and on-time delivery. Utilizes data analysis to identify trends, bottlenecks, recurring constraints, schedule risks, and opportunities for operational improvement. Establishes and monitors key performance indicators (KPIs) for Production Control and uses performance data to drive accountability and corrective action. Analyzes production performance and recommends corrective actions to improve schedule attainment, throughput, resource utilization, and on-time delivery. Leads cross-functional coordination among Production, Planning, Scheduling, Procurement, Engineering, Quality, Project Management, and other departments to resolve production constraints and ma…

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