Production Scheduling Lead

Description

Thread-Craft is looking for an experienced Production Scheduling Lead to take ownership of production scheduling across our manufacturing operation.

This is more than maintaining a schedule. You will be responsible for developing a structured, visible, and effective production scheduling process that helps our team understand priorities, identify constraints, communicate risks, and ultimately improve our ability to deliver products to customers on time.

You will work across Operations, Sales, Engineering, Purchasing, Quality, and Leadership to understand what needs to be produced, what resources are available, what may prevent production from moving forward, and what needs to happen to keep customer commitments on track.

We are looking for someone who is willing to learn, willing to put in the work, adapts well to technology and changing priorities, and has the initiative to identify problems and drive them toward resolution.

Requirements

What you will do

• Own and maintain the production schedule for the manufacturing facility.
• Develop and maintain a structured, visible scheduling system that clearly communicates production priorities.
• Establish daily and weekly production priorities while maintaining rough-cut production plans several months into the future.
• Schedule production based on customer requirements, capacity, material availability, machine availability, labor, tooling, outside processing, and other manufacturing constraints.
• Monitor production progress against the schedule and adjust priorities when conditions change.
• Maintain visibility of late orders and orders at risk of becoming late.
• Identify capacity constraints, bottlenecks, and potential delivery risks before they impact customers.
• Communicate schedule changes clearly and quickly to the people affected.
• Work closely with supervisors and shop-floor employees to ensure the production schedule reflects actual operating conditions.
• Coordinate with Sales when customer priorities or delivery requirements change.
• Work with Engineering, Quality, Purchasing, Operations, and other departments to resolve issues preventing production from moving forward.
• Manage expedited work and changing priorities while minimizing unnecessary disruption to production.
• Provide leadership with clear visibility into production status, upcoming workload, constraints, and delivery risks.
• Help improve the accuracy of production routings, standard times, capacity information, and other scheduling data.
• Develop and improve production reports, dashboards, production boards, and other visual management tools.
• Continuously evaluate the production scheduling process and identify opportunities for improvement.

What you will accomplish

Your work will directly impact how effectively the manufacturing operation executes its production plan and meets customer commitments.

You will accomplish this by

• Creating clear daily and weekly production priorities.
• Making sure supervisors and operators understand what needs to run next.
• Improving visibility of late and at-risk customer orders.
• Identifying capacity constraints and bottlenecks before they become delivery problems.
• Improving communication between Operations and supporting departments.
• Establishing a scheduling process that is organized, visible, and easy for the organization to understand.
• Improving the accuracy and reliability of production scheduling information.
• Helping the organization respond effectively when priorities, materials, capacity, or customer requirements change.
• Creating better visibility for leadership into production performance and potential delivery risks.

You will achieve this by

Success in this position will be measured by operational results. Two of the primary measures of success will be On-Time Delivery and Days Late.

You will achieve this by taking ownership of the production schedule, understanding the current state of the operation, identifying opportunities for improvement, and working with the team to implement meaningful changes.

Key performance measures include:

• On-Time Delivery
• Average Days Late
• Past-Due Backlog
• Visibility and communication of production priorities
• Identification and escalation of delivery risks
• Schedule stability and effectiveness

The expectation is not that you accomplish these results alone. You will work closely with Operations and supporting departments, but you will be responsible for leading the scheduling process and driving accountability around the production plan.

Communication & Leadership

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