Production Coordinator

The Production Coordinator plays a critical role in bridging the gap between planning and execution by ensuring the seamless flow of orders, materials, and documentation. Operating in a fast-paced environment, this role serves as a key communication link between Production, Sales, and Shipping to provide real-time updates on product availability and order status. Responsibilities include interpreting schedules, coordinating raw materials, executing daily production plans, and preparing essential quality and run documentation.

This position is ideal for an organized, detail-oriented communicator who thrives on solving logistical challenges and supporting continuous improvement initiatives to optimize operational efficiency.

• Standardize Documentation:
  Ensure all production run paperwork, including required safety and regulatory check-sheets, is accurate, complete, and readily available before job launch.
• Support Workplace Audits:
  Maintain organized, compliant records for all production activities to support internal quality, safety, and regulatory audits.

• Optimize Order Fulfillment:
  Utilize real-time order data and dynamic production schedules to verify product availability and meet client delivery timelines.
• Expedite Critical Orders:
  Partner closely with production teams to prioritize, fast-track, and troubleshoot urgent customer orders.
• Provide Order Visibility:
  Act as the central point of contact for all production-related order status updates, ensuring internal transparency.
• Execute Production Plans:
  Support the daily and weekly execution of master production plans to maintain reliable, on-time delivery.

• Protect Production Flow:
  Proactively identify, flag, and mitigate scheduling conflicts or material bottlenecks that threaten manufacturing continuity.
• Drive Efficiency Initiatives:
  Actively support and contribute to continuous improvement projects aimed at boosting production efficiency and streamlining order workflows.
• Manage Fast-Paced Priorities:
  Successfully navigate multiple competing deadlines and shifting priorities in a high-velocity operational environment.

• Manage Material Availability:
  Coordinate raw material stocking levels to ensure all necessary inputs are available to meet production demands.
• Facilitate Material Transfers:
  Identify inventory gaps and execute material transfers between facilities to dynamically support shifting regional demands.
• Prepare Quality Documentation:
  Generate and distribute accurate production documents, product labels, and quality control forms to the floor prior to manufacturing runs.

• Facilitate Cross-Functional Communication:
  Bridge the gap between operations and commercial teams by communicating product availability, constraints, and delivery timelines to Sales and Shipping.
• Interpret Data Collaboratively:
  Analyze production schedules and complex order data to provide actionable insights to plant leadership and departmental peers.

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Experience managing multiple tasks and competing priorities in a fast-paced work environment.
• Ability to review and interpret data, tracking sheets, or schedules to determine availability or timelines.
• Proven history of sharing updates, answering inquiries, and coordinating work across different teams or departments.
• Experience preparing, verifying, and distributing accurate paperwork, labels, or forms.

• Prior experience in a coordination, scheduling, logistics, or operations support role.
• Experience monitoring stock levels,…