Operations Support Service Lead, Production Control

Operations Support Service Lead, Production Control About this position

Beehive Industries is dedicated to Powering American Defense by revolutionizing the design, development, and delivery of jet propulsion systems to support the warfighter. Through the integration of additive manufacturing, the company aims to meet the growing and urgent needs for unmanned aerial defense by dramatically improving a jet engine’s speed to market, fuel efficiency, and cost.

Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Centennial, Colorado, with additional facilities in Knoxville, Tennessee, Loveland Ohio, and Mount Vernon, Ohio. Beehive is committed to grow and advance the defense industrial base while manufacturing exclusively in the USA. This role will be located at our Cincinnati, Ohio facility.

The OSSLeadis a key leadership role within the Production Control organization responsible for driving execution of the production plan and ensuring material, work orders, priorities, and operational support are aligned to meet manufacturing commitments.

This role leads the Operations Support Services (OSS) team and serves as a critical link between Production Control, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Manufacturing Engineering, and other supporting functions. The OSSLeadis responsible foridentifyingand resolving constraints that threaten production flow, establishing clear priorities, driving recovery actions, and ensuring the factory has the information and supportrequiredto execute the schedule.

The successful candidate will be a highly engaged operations leader who combines strong production-control discipline with a hands‑on understanding of aerospace manufacturing. This individual must be comfortable operating in a fast‑paced environment, managing competing priorities, escalating risks, and driving issues to closure.

• Lead the OSS organization supporting day-to-day execution of the manufacturing production plan.
• Translate the master production schedule and Production Control priorities into clear, executable actions for the OSS team and manufacturing organization.
• Maintain visibility to production status, schedule attainment, shortages, work-in-process (WIP), constraints, and recovery requirements.
• Partner closely with Production Control leadership toidentifyschedule risks andestablishpriorities based on customer commitments, production requirements, and overall factory needs.
• Drive resolution of material shortages, work-order constraints, documentation issues, nonconforming material impacts, and other barriers affecting production flow.
• Coordinate cross-functional recovery activities with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Manufacturing Engineering, Planning, and other support organizations.
• Establish daily operating rhythms for reviewing production status, constraints, priorities, and corrective actions.
• Ensure critical production issues have clear ownership, actions, due dates, and escalation paths.
• Monitor aging WIP and stalled work orders and drive actions necessary to restore production flow.
• Support shortage management and material allocation decisions to maximize schedule attainment and minimize disruption to critical production requirements.
• Identify systemic causes of production disruption and partner with appropriate functions to implement sustainable corrective actions.
• Develop andmaintainstandard work, visual management, and performance metrics for the OSS organization.
• Use ERP/MRP and manufacturing execution data toidentifyrisks, prioritize work, and support fact-based operational decisions.
• Provide clear andtimelycommunicationto
  
  Production Control and Operations leadershipregardingschedule risk, recovery status, and significant production constraints.
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