Production Controller

Pay Range:$40 - $54/hr. The pay rate may differ depending on your skills, education, experience, and other qualifications.

Featured Benefits:

• Medical Insurance in compliance with the ACA.
• 401(k).
• Sick leave in compliance with applicable state, federal, and local laws.

Work Shift: 1st Shift (5/40); Some overtime may be required during the week. There is no travel or on call options. The standard work hours are 7am 3:30pm Monday through Friday. There is no shift differential.

Job Description:

• Looking for a Production Controller 3 to support our laser manufacturing floor. As a member of the Production Control department, you ll work in a fast-paced team environment alongside material planners, stockroom, laser technicians and assemblers. This position will serve on-site at the Apopka site in Apopka, FL.

Responsibilities:

• Support program meetings daily with program management, manufacturing management, quality, and procurement.
• Daily updates and reports on shortages, part replacements, backorders & other material challenges that could impact weekly customer deliveries.
• Prompt Fulfilment of replacement material
• Prioritize/Expedite make items in commodity areas to support program weekly customer deliveries.
• Lead effort to ensure program aged WIP 60 days or less
• Floor Counts and reconciliation
• Work with stockroom partners and prioritize kits needed on the floor to support weekly deliveries.
• Create rework work orders
• Facilitate material transfers between projects when needed
• Mentor, coach, and work closely with jr. production control team members
• Ability to lift and move hardware when needed, some of which may weigh up to 30 lbs.
• Capable of working weekends or extended hours if notified in advance

Basic Qualifications for Production Controller 3:

• High School Diploma or equivalent with 4 years of experience in a production control, inventory control, or stockroom role.
• Experience with Microsoft Office (Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• PPE experience.
• Experience working on multiple projects and adjust priority changes within a dynamic work environment.

Preferred Qualifications for Production Controller 3:

• 5 years experience in a manufacturing environment.
• 4 years experience working in an ERP system.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Maintains schedules for material requirements and availability for the manufacture of industrial and commercial products to support production control.
• Compiles records concerning quantity, cost, and type of material received, shipped, in stock or inventory, and/or in production.
• Expedites flow of materials, parts, and assemblies within or between departments by production and shipping schedules.
• Assists in determining possible and actual shortages and may initiate action to correct these deficiencies.
• Uses knowledge of production, procurement, and engineering departments to alert proper authorities regarding potential problems and appropriate remedial action. Estimates and logs production rate and time expenditures and may be required to establish sequence and lead time of each operation to meet shipping dates.
• The ideal candidate must have strong prioritization, interpersonal, and communication skills; pay attention to detail, collaborate across the organization, willing to learn new tasks, and have strong problem solving skills.