Senior Production Control Analyst

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 Knoxville, Tennessee facility.

Beehive Industries is seeking a Senior Production Control Analyst to drive production planning, scheduling execution, and real-time coordination of engine assemblies and components through the manufacturing process. In this senior-level role, you will proactively ensure efficient movement of work orders, resolve critical schedule challenges, and act as a technical resource for cross-functional teams including manufacturing, engineering, quality, and supply chain.

We are seeking candidates with significant experience in manufacturing or production environments, comfort on the shop floor and in systems, and a demonstrated ability to independently maintain production flow, address complex disruptions, and lead efforts supporting on-time delivery in a high-velocity, mission-driven operation.

• Lead tracking of engine assemblies, subassemblies, and components through the manufacturing process ensuring robust schedule execution and rapid response to issues
• Monitor and prioritize daily production activities ensuring work orders consistently progress according to planned schedules and serve as an escalation point for schedule risks
• Independentlyidentifyand escalatea production issues such as material shortages, quality holds, tooling delays, documentation gaps, and engineering clarifications and lead corrective actions and recovery planning
• Coordinate and facilitate daily production meetings gather cross-team updates oversee tracking of action items and communicate schedule priorities to all stakeholders
• Drive resolution of complex production disruptions by collaborating with manufacturing, engineering, quality, and supply chain leaders
• Track and report on key performance indicators such as schedule adherence work order completion WIP status and throughput and develop recommendations for schedule reliability
• Own recovery plans for delayed production coordinating corrective actions across all relevant teams
• Ensureaccurateandtimely maintenance of work order data within ERP MRP and MES systems and act as a SME for data integrity and reporting
• Communicate production priorities to supervisors and shop floor personnel and coach team members and promote clarity in workflow execution
• Identify and address bottlenecks capacity constraints and process inefficiencies and propose and help implement continuous improvement initiatives for production planning and scheduling
• Lead and support production reporting and data analysis efforts to drive schedule adherence improve forecasting accuracy and influence operational decisions
• Champion continuous improvement projects related to production control and factory operations and guide less experienced team members and promote knowledge-sharing best practices

• Bachelor’s degree required supply chain business engineering operations or related field preferred master’s degree a plus

• Minimum 5 years of experience in manufacturing production control supply chain operations or industrial engineering master’s…