Production Control Manager Position Available In Greenwood, South Carolina

Production control manager (scheduling and planning)

Summary of Duties:

The Production Control Manager manages the organization’s planning, scheduling, forecasting, and production dispatch activities to ensure customer commitments are met.

Job Duties Include

• Manges the Production Control department in line with customer needs
• Work with Sales, Material Management, and Operations to ensure information flow, material flow, and manpower/machine capacity is adequate to support customer needs
• Responsible for production schedules with Operations in line with customer needs
• Correspond with upper management when projects are forecasted to be late, and work to address issues through root-cause corrective action
• Correspond with all departments regarding project needs (as needed.
• Responsible for ensuring raw materials and related components are available to meet production requirements
• Relay lead times to customers
• Review manufacturing plans and communicate with Sales and Supply chain when plans are not correct (as needed.
• Responsible for the direction of outside services and ensuring that timing requirements are met
• Review and update production schedule as necessary to meet customer needs
• Handle special projects as required
• Conducts necessary research on customer-related issues and reports findings within the department and plant management
• Develop and implement new approaches to improve efficiency in the production control activities
• Provide comprehensive reports on plated or fabricated parts on-hand or deliveries as per customers’ request
• Plan and/or attend scheduling meetings with other departments, and/or customers as necessary to meet/establish scheduling needs
• Work with production and quality staff to assist with the flow of non-conforming materials, such as scheduling rework and recording scrap
• Responsible for the entering of Purchase Orders through all platforms utilized in the Order Entry Process.

Minimum Job Requirements

• 5+ years of progressive experience in a related Manufacturing environment
• Action and detail oriented
• Strong verbal and non-verbal communication skills
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite and Preferably Sage, Syteline, Visual, or Oracle ERP systems
• Must be a person of passion and integrity who has the drive to excel and deliver exceptional results
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Prior experience with inventory controls and production planning.