Production Control Specialist

What You Will Do

Q-6 is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented individual to serve as a Production Control Specialist within the Detonation Science and Technology Group. This position provides critical support for inventory management, material accountability, material readiness, and production control functions for high-explosive, classified, controlled, and inert materials used in research, development, and testing operations.

The selected candidate will work collaboratively with operations, safety, security, quality, material management, and programmatic organizations to ensure materials and equipment are properly received, tracked, stored, staged, issued, returned, reconciled, and documented in accordance with Laboratory and Division requirements. The role supports high-consequence work environments that involve high explosives, hazardous materials, classified matter, controlled components, test assets, spare parts, consumables, and a broad range of inert inventory.

The Detonation Science and Technology Group enables critical national security missions through detonation science, testing operations, material control, and operational readiness. The Production Control Specialist directly contributes to these mission objectives by ensuring that materials, equipment, controlled items, and Measuring and Test Equipment (M&TE) are available, traceable, compliant, and ready to support ongoing R&D and test activities.

This position supports inventory and production control activities across Q-6 facilities, including high-explosive material areas, classified material control locations, and inert storage environments. Responsibilities may include supporting material readiness for test activities; maintaining accurate and auditable inventory records; managing M&TE tracking and calibration-status control; performing cycle counts and physical inventories; resolving inventory discrepancies; supporting material disposition; and helping maintain clean, organized, and compliant storage and staging areas.

• Provide material management, logistics, and operations support in a controlled work environment consistent with institutional requirements.
• Maintain accountability and positive control of high explosives, classified matter, controlled components, test assets, consumables, spare parts, inert inventories, and Measuring and Test Equipment (M&TE).
• Conduct material control activities including receipt, verification, labeling, storage, staging, issuance, return, transfer, reconciliation, and disposition in accordance with approved procedures.
• Perform cycle counts, physical inventories, and inventory reconciliations; maintain accurate shelf-life, lot, and serial-number tracking; ensure M&TE identification, calibration status, and control are compliant with institutional processes.
• Utilize approved production, inventory, database, spreadsheet, and resource-planning systems to maintain accurate, complete, and auditable records, including those associated with M&TE.
• Coordinate with operations, safety, security, quality, material management, craft, and programmatic organizations to ensure material and M&TE availability to support mission execution.
• Prepare, maintain, and retain required documentation, including inventory records, material forms, transaction logs, work-control documents, configuration management and quality records, and M&TE control documentation.
• Implement safe, secure, and compliant work practices in facilities that involve high explosives, hazardous materials, classified matter, controlled inventories, and calibrated or non-calibrated M&TE.
• Maintain storage, staging, and inventory areas in an orderly, hazard-free, and compliant condition, including appropriate segregation, housekeeping, material organization, and coordination of waste or excess materials.
• Exercise Stop Work authority when conditions arise that may challenge safety, security, material control, M&TE control, or compliance requirements.

Minimum

Job Requirements:

• Reliability, attention to detail, willingness to learn, and ability to follow approved procedures in a controlled work environment.
• Sound knowledge and experiance in inventory control, material management, logistics, warehousing, procurement support, or operations support.
• Ability to assist with receiving, labeling, storing, staging, issuing, returning, reconciling, and dispositioning materials.
• Ability to learn accountability and positive-control practices for high explosives, classified matter,…