Lead Production Coordinator

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.