Lead Production Coordinator

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Production Planning & Scheduling

• Coordinate daily production schedules across manufacturing departments to achieve customer delivery commitments and operational efficiency goals.
• Analyze workload, labor availability, machine capacity, inventory levels, and material constraints to determine production priorities.
• Evaluate conflicting production demands and recommend schedule adjustments based on business impact, customer commitments, and available resources.
• Monitor order progress and take corrective action to address schedule risks and bottlenecks.
• Facilitate communication between production supervisors, planners, customer service, purchasing, and quality personnel regarding priority changes and schedule modifications.
• Serve as the point of contact for EDI customers related to priority order scheduling and following the process through production to delivery.
• Determines day-to-day production order priorities within established business guidelines.
• Recommends schedule modifications, inventory allocation decisions, and resource prioritization based on operational requirements.
• Identifies and resolves production control issues that may impact customer deliveries, inventory investment, or manufacturing performance.

ERP and Production Control Management

• Maintain integrity of production planning data within the ERP system.
• Review and resolve work order exceptions, shortages, routing discrepancies, transaction issues, and planning system errors.
• Determine appropriate actions for order releases, rescheduling, reallocating inventory, or modifying production priorities.
• Develop and implement improvements to work order processing and production control procedures.
• Analyze system-generated planning recommendations and determine appropriate execution strategies.

Operational Analysis and Continuous Improvement

• Analyze key production metrics, including schedule attainment, throughput, on-time delivery performance, work-in-process inventory, and resource utilization.
• Identify production flow constraints and recommend corrective actions to management.
• Lead or participate in process improvement initiatives designed to improve manufacturing efficiency and customer service performance.
• Develop reports and recommendations for operations leadership regarding production performance and scheduling effectiveness.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Serve as primary coordinator for resolving production and scheduling conflicts among departments.
• Work with purchasing to address material shortages and develop recovery plans.
• Collaborate with customer service regarding delivery commitments and order priorities.
• Coordinate with quality and engineering teams when production issues impact customer requirements or manufacturing schedules.
• Support management in capacity planning and workforce utilization decisions.

Leadership Support

• Provide recommendations to management regarding production priorities and resource allocation.
• Assist in developing standard operating procedures related to production planning and order management.
• Train users on ERP and production control processes as needed.
• Act as a subject matter resource for production control and work order management practices.
• Follow established quality, safety, and company policies and procedures.
• Perform other production and operational support duties as assigned.