Production Control Lead

The Company:

This is an opportunity to join a global manufacturing organisation that supplies highly engineered products to customers around the world. With a strong focus on innovation, operational excellence and continuous improvement, the business is looking to strengthen its planning and scheduling capability within a complex manufacturing environment

The Role:

Reporting into the manufacturing leadership team, the Production Control Leader will be responsible for developing and managing production schedules to ensure customer requirements, operational priorities and business objectives are achieved. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and maintaining short-term manufacturing and production schedules. 
• Leading daily production planning meetings and monitoring adherence to plan.
• Identifying potential delivery risks and implementing corrective actions.
• Working closely with Operations, Manufacturing Engineering and Material Planning teams to resolve capacity, resource and material constraints.
• Producing production performance data, utilisation reports and forecasting information.
• Supporting on-time delivery performance and reporting key metrics to senior leadership. 
• Running schedule simulations and scenario planning to improve manufacturing performance and reduce risk.