Production Controller
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Salary: $80,000+ annually, depending on experience
Schedule: Monday–Friday | 7:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Employment Type: Full-Time | Direct Hire
- Develop and maintain the master production schedule based on customer demand, materials, labor, equipment capacity, and engineering releases.
- Plan, schedule, coordinate, and release production orders to manufacturing.
- Maintain accurate customer promise dates and communicate production status.
- Monitor daily work-in-process (WIP) and address shortages, delays, and changing priorities.
- Lead weekly production backlog meetings with Operations, Sales, and Engineering.
- Identify capacity bottlenecks and coordinate corrective actions.
- Manage production reschedules and communicate changes across departments.
- Maintain accurate ERP/MRP planning data, routings, scheduling information, and reporting tools.
- Track schedule attainment, capacity utilization, backlog, and on-time delivery performance.
- Partner with Purchasing on material shortages, inventory, WIP aging, and outsourced machining or fabrication.
- Coordinate with Engineering on job costs, routings, and engineering release timing.
- Review work order closeouts and analyze labor, material, and routing variances.
- Identify opportunities to improve production planning processes, scheduling tools, and ERP data accuracy.
- Participate in daily Gemba walks and demonstrate strong safety leadership.
- 5+ years of production planning, scheduling, materials management, production control, or manufacturing operations experience.
- Advanced knowledge of ERP/MRP-driven manufacturing planning.
- Epicor experience strongly preferred.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel; PivotTable experience is a plus.
- Knowledge of discrete and continuous manufacturing principles and operations.
- Experience in make-to-order, engineer-to-order, or low-volume/high-mix manufacturing preferred.
- Experience supporting fabrication, machining, welding, assembly, or vertically integrated manufacturing strongly preferred.
- Strong planning, organization, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to interpret production data and make timely decisions.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive accountability without direct supervisory authority.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining a consistent planning cadence.
- Bachelor's degree in Operations, Engineering, or a related field, or additional relevant manufacturing production-control experience.
- APICS, Lean, or Six Sigma certifications are a plus.
- Climate-controlled manufacturing facility.
- Moderate noise levels within OSHA limits.
- Ability to lift 25–50 lbs.
- Ability to walk, sit, stand, talk, and communicate throughout an 8-hour workday.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k).
- PTO/Vacation.
- Long-Term Disability (LTD).
- Life insurance.
- Professional growth opportunities.
- Collaborative manufacturing environment.
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