Production Control and Expeditor

Business Unit PCC Fasteners offers comprehensive product lines that cover virtually every aerospace fastening application, we produce fasteners, precision components, tooling, and engineered system solutions for the automotive, defense, industrial machinery, and other performance-driven markets.

PCC Fastener products' manufacturing operations are spread over four continents, forming a network of industry-leading companies, which enables our customers to utilize our experience and deep product knowledge wherever they need it. Embedded in a culture of continuous improvement, our assets and industry leadership ensure that we will consistently deliver our customers the best value in the markets we serve.

Location Profile:

Headquartered in Irvine, CA, Shur-Lok manufactures fastening systems with superior locking devices for critical requirements including engine module assembly, structural assembly, rotor blade attachment, and aircraft engine shaft and spindle applications. Operations at the Irvine location include: CNC Machining, CNC Waterjet Cutting, Laser Marking, Heat Treating, NDT, and EDM.

Work Location:

This is a full-time, on-site position based in Irvine, CA. Standard work hours are Monday through Friday, 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM with overtime and weekend availability as directed.

The Production Control and Expeditor level is responsible for ensuring the timely release, movement, and tracking of work orders through the production process. This role requires a high sense of urgency, strong communication skills, and close coordination with Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Purchasing, and Sales teams. The Production Expeditor will play a critical role in identifying and resolving bottlenecks to meet customer delivery schedules.

The Production Control and Expeditor manage customer critical and expedites orders to ensure operational prioritization, timely completion, accurate system and documentation processing, parts and documentation handoff, from order start to ship.

• Responsible to locate orders, prioritize production sequence and move parts throughout manufacturing operations
• Reviews component availability and customer requirements to release shop orders based upon optimized lot sizes
• Utilize a complete knowledge of applicable scheduling procedures, techniques and documentation, and knowledge of assigned production activities and related supporting organizations.
• Analyze work center workload and workflow to ensure timely completion of order to meet milestones while coordinating schedules and staffing with leads, supervisors and area managers
• Maintains project trackers and action lists to engage additional stakeholders as required.
• Develop and initiate master or detailed schedules to support manufacture of standard parts or assemblies in assigned area. Verify predetermined methods or routing data, prepare or release optimum quantities for fabrication runs, screen parts for multiple usage to avoid schedule problems or to insure a steady flow of materials. Recalculate loads on departments or adjust master or detail schedules according to engineering or methods changes, new releases, priority upgrades, rework dispositions, part or assembly shortages, or supporting supply problems.
  
  Maintain product status data to compare or monitor schedule estimates with production capability or materials support.
• Frequent contact is required with marketing, methods engineering, document or production control, purchasing to obtain or present information applicable to assigned scheduling.
• Performs other duties as necessary or that may be assigned from time to time.
• Manages work order launch and system integrity.
• Identifies interdependencies between product types and operations by developing and maintaining integrated master schedule.
• Establish project schedule development, monitoring and analysis to identify critical path and resource allocation.

Required:

• Familiarity with Supply Chain metrics and MRP systems
• Ability to analyze production data and develop solutions
• Ability to work well in a cross-functional team setting
• High visible energy, sense of urgency, and ownership
• Effective…