- Field
- Plant and production leadership
- Location
- Aliquippa, PA
- Work model
- Onsite
- Level
- Manager
- Pay
- $70k to $80k
About the role
The position is accountable for maintaining a reliable production schedule, accurate work orders, strong inventory discipline, and operational continuity.
What you would own
- Production Planning & Scheduling.
- Develop and maintain the production plan based on customer demand, forecasts, inventory targets, available capacity, labor, and material availability.
- Coordinate scheduling and production sequence across extrusion, drying/baking, and packing operations to optimize efficiency and minimize changeovers and downtime.
- Continuously adjust the plan based on production performance, equipment downtime, material availability, quality issues, and customer priorities.
- Monitor execution against plan and proactively identify and escalate capacity constraints, delays, and delivery risks.
- Supervise the accurate and timely creation, release, and closure of production work orders.
- Maintain planning and master data accuracy, including lead times, BOMs, routings, and inventory parameters.
- Material Planning & Inventory Control.
- Ensure raw materials, packaging, and other production requirements are availableCoordinate with Purchasing and Warehouse to anticipate and resolve material shortages or delays.
- Maintain accurate inventory levels and strong lot/batch traceability across raw materials, WIP, and finished goods.
- Lead cycle counts and investigate inventory discrepancies, focusing on root cause and corrective action.
- Ensure proper material storage, handling, FIFO practices, and timely return of unused production materials.
- Warehouse & Production Material Flow.
- Coordinate warehouse activities and material staging according to production priorities.
- Ensure materials are correctly identified, available, and delivered to production when required.
- Coordinate receiving, storage, transfers, and finished goods movements while maintaining accurate ERP transactions.
- Ensure non-conforming, damaged, or unidentified materials are properly segregated and coordinated with Quality.
- Ensure finished goods are properly identified, stored, and available for shipment.
- Cross-Functional Coordination & Execution.
- Act as the key link between Planning, Production, Warehouse, Purchasing, Sales, Customer Service, and Quality.
- Communicate production priorities, schedule changes, material constraints, and delivery risks clearly and proactively.
- Coordinate with Sales and Customer Service to align production priorities with customer requirements and realistic shipping commitments.
- Work with Production to improve schedule adherence and resolve execution issues.
- Team Leadership & Continuous Improvement.
Everything above is the hiring company’s own words, with the company name taken out. The name, the team, and the interview steps come with the first conversation.