Production Manager - Inventory Control

Overview

Do you want to join a team that's changing the world? Do you have a strong background as a Production Manager
- Inventory Control? Then we're looking for you!

Production Manager
- Inventory Control

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Shift: Monday
- Friday Day Shift

Department: Assembly

Job Summary:

Leads and delivers Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, and People (SQCDP) performance for Production Manager – Inventory Control across PECNA Operations. Expected to serve as a leader who sets clear expectations, holds people accountable, removes barriers, and inspects what you expect with courtesy and respect. Ensures end-to-end supply chain value-stream accountability by collaborating upstream and downstream to maintain proper inventory control levels and healthy WIP.

Personal Safety is imperative and the mandate of Quality is the foundation of everything we do—neither will be compromised under any circumstances.

• Owns execution and governance of incoming/outgoing inventory for operations to ensure material availability, inventory accuracy, and compliant transactional discipline.
• Maintains visibility of RAW/WIP/FG positions and validates that inventory status/location controls enable production execution.
• Runs dashboards and early warning triggers (upper/lower limits) to prevent stockouts, excess, or unhealthy WIP.

• Drives discrepancy investigations and corrective actions; documents and sustains countermeasures to prevent recurrence.
• Partners with Finance and Supply Chain to align inventory reporting, reconciliation, and audit readiness.

• Builds capability and accountability for inventory discipline across operations teams and material movement partners.
• Trains stakeholders on inventory control routines, system transactions, and escalation triggers.

• Coordinates with Receiving/Shipping, Production, Quality (holds), and Supply Chain to ensure inventory integrity and FIFO discipline.
• Collaborates upstream and downstream to ensure smooth value-stream flow and correct WIP/inventory control levels.

• Ensures inventory handling and storage follow safety rules and quality requirements (including holds, segregation, and disposition).
• Ensures all inventory transactions are completed timely and accurately; maintains audit-ready records.

• Leads inventory control analysts/specialists or assigned team members; provides functional leadership to inventory-related execution partners.
• Owns weekly cycle count execution/governance and discrepancy investigation cadence.

• Minimal travel as required for business needs.

• To ensure the health and safety in the workplace and for the protection of our employees, wearing PPE is a possibility and may include equipment such as a full Tyvek suit, safety shoes, gloves, safety glasses, face mask, bump cap, and a full hazmat suit that includes a respirator.

The foregoing description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills and efforts or work conditions associated with the job. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the general nature and level of the job.

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Business Administration, or a related technical field. Relevant work experience may be substituted for required education.

• Master’s degree (MBA or MS) in a related discipline
• Lean Six Sigma Certification (Green Belt or higher)
• OSHA 30-Hour General Industry certification

• 5+ years of manufacturing leadership experience.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multi-shift execution and drive plan attainment.

• Experience in regulated/traceable environments and with cycle count/physical inventory governance.
• Working knowledge of ERP/MES/WMS inventory transactions and documentation discipline.

Physical

Activities:

Percentage of time (equaling 100%) during the normal workday the employee is required to:

• Sit: 10%
• Walk: 50%
• Stand: 40%

• Rare (