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Production Control Manag

The Production Control Manager drives execution of the short-term Supply Plan/Sales for a specific asset grouping/grouping of production areas, ensuring efficient flow of material and escalation/resolution of any road blocks or missed expectations. This role is expected to have high visibility on the production floor, collaborating with production supervisors on master scheduling, and in management execution tracking meetings, highlighting progress, loss and impact of operational execution trade-off scenarios. VISIBILTY TO MGMT

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Drives output of large asset grouping to meet forecast expectations through efficient flow of material and stewardship of the master production schedule.
• Owns and considered responsible subject matter expert on Lean Flow production in-process line-balancing kanbans in Asset Grouping which govern production asset loading levels.  Alters in-process kanban designs for mix changes/builds for major outages.    Works with Planning on needed Supermarket safety stock sizing.
• Identifies/Reports leading and lagging indicators to demonstrate daily/weekly progress to execution plan, keeping within manufacturing spend and inventory targets; communicates impact of any fall-behind and catch-up plans
• Has wider view of all other Asset Groups that affect own execution to drive best scenario outcome with other PC Managers, Identifies, resolves or escalates between-work cell flow challenges and quantifies impact. escalating to Operations Managers and Site Managers as needed.
• Manages MRP Planner/Schedulers under Asset Grouping to rectify work cell system data such as work center capacity, outages, production order scheduling, and production order late risk that drive both short term execution progress, and mid-term leadtime quoting for forecast planning.
• Escalates impact concerns and true view of the production floor (production plan adherence) to Operations and Supply Chain management.  Expected to be called upon weekly (Monthly, Quarterly) to report directly to Leadership on progress to forecast and trade-off execution scenarios.
• Other tasks as required

Qualifications

Education – Indicate the level of education required and preferred for this position, including major area of study, special training & certifications.

• Required: Highschool Diploma or equivalent.
• Preferred: College Educated -OR- commiserate experience in production environments.

Experience – Describe experience required and preferred, including years of experience.  Experience can include types of work, prolonged schooling, environments or situations/settings. 

• Required: Experience as production coordinator or higher AND scheduling background.
• Preferred: Experience as production supervisor AND Planning/scheduling background.
• Years of Experience: 10
• Understanding of end-to-end planning and supply chain management
• Experience in using and improving systems (SAP ERP and Oracle preferred)
• Proven people and line management experience
• Knowledge of processes in sales, marketing operations, finance and manufacturing.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects at once.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve KPIs like plan accuracy improvement, process adherence, stock turns, return on investment and project completion

​Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Required: Ability to influence outside direct reporting structure, ability to comprehend downstream and commercial impact of changes in production plan, direct experience planning and/or scheduling in manufacturing environments
• Preferred: Experience with reporting tools such as PowerBI, experience creating leading indicators/tools to predict production plan adherence,
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders team to evaluate multiple options and transparently communicate options, making recommendations where appropriate.
• Quickly identify deviations from expected results and other disruptions and can promptly lead their teams to resolve any issues, fostering a high performance and engaged culture.

KPI Management

• Developing, implementing and monitoring key execution KPIs impacted by demand and supply planning activities and outputs
• Determining methods to address and correct any demand and supply planning group behaviors that adversely affect S&OP KPIDevelop, manage, and monitor optimized inventory targets and KPIs or inventory levels and inventory health in line with organizational objectives.

The selection of the person to be hired for this position is contingent on the candidate having export compliance eligibility for access to U.S. controlled technology which comes under the licensing jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of State, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Administration Regulations (EAR).

The candidate selected will have to qualify as either a U.S. citizen, a U.S. National, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., a Person Admitted into the U.S. as an Asylee or Refugee., a National of a country that is not prohibited from having access to U.S. controlled technology (via a letter of assurance), or a Person to be approved for an export license by the governing agency whose technology comes under its jurisdiction. Please understand that any job offer that requires approval of an export license will be conditional on Materion’s determination that it will be able to obtain an export license in a time frame consistent with Materion’s business requirements.

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