Production Control Supervisor

 
Job Title: Production Control Supervisor
Department: Materials
Reports to: Materials Manager
Position Type: FT Exempt

Job Purpose:
Compiles and maintains production records to perform data analysis and drive process improvements. Evaluates operational strategies to identify inadequacies, recommend changes for improvement, and provide technical guidance for internal stakeholders. Ensures adequate inventory levels and maintains production schedules to ensure efficient production flow. Prepares reports concerning production flow for upper management. Serves as the liaison for engineering, sales, manufacturing, and upper management to ensure timely production flows.
Essential Functions:

• Hands-on Supervision of the Production Control Department ensuring that production has a clear schedule and that raw materials are available to meet the designated schedules.
• Contributes to the Sales and Operation Planning process by using data and analysis of orders, inventory levels, economic trends, and supplier sources to provide reports and information to help the decision-making process to meet customer expectations are while ensuring that the operation runs efficiently. while
• Monitors the raw material inventory to ensure the organization operates efficiently by ensuring that raw materials are available to meet designated production schedules.
• Tracks and report department milestones/goals including On-Time Delivery, Inventory Turns, Schedule Attainment and Scrap/Remakes to accomplish Pelican Wire’s quality, cost, delivery, and safety targets, while adhering to approved budgets and strategic objectives.
• Develops production capacity forecasts (both machine and labor) by considering sales orders/forecasts, production rates, and maintenance schedules.
• Supervises staff of direct and indirect reports in planning, procurement, warehouse, and operations through training, regular feedback, performance reviews and developmental activities to ensure movement toward a high-performance organization.
• Develop, maintain, and follow ISO 9001 policies and procedures in the areas of material management, purchasing and inventory control.

Skills/Qualifications:

• Strong written and verbal communications skills.
• Demonstrated project management, analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to engage the materials team, delegate effectively, and build collaborative relationships.     
• Proficient in various computer programs including Microsoft Office (Excel expert is a must have).
• Intermediate to advanced level of ERP /MRP usage and understanding.  Knowledge of M1 is a plus.
• Product knowledge in the wire industry.

Education and Experience:
A 3 years’ experience in the materials function in a manufacturing environment or a combination of equivalent education and experience.

Work Environment: 
Work is primarily indoors in a climate-controlled manufacturing/office building; noise level is moderate. Occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts.

Physical Demands:
While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk, hear, stand, and walk. The employee is frequently required to sit, stand walk, and use their hands and fingers, to handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, reach for, handle and grasp objects.

Travel Required:
Occasional travel to visit with suppliers and customers and attend industry meetings and training programs as requested.

Conclusion:
This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the job and the general nature and level of work performed by job holders within this job. But this job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of qualifications, skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities or working conditions associated with the position.

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