Job Details
Leidos
Production Control Manager
Description
Job Description:
Leidos' Security Enterprise Solutions (SES) operation is seeking a Production Control Manager to join our team in Vista, CA. Check out this link to learn more about Security Enterprise Solutions (SES), formally known as Security Detection & Automation. https://www.leidos.com/markets/aviation/security-detection
The Production Control Manager is responsible for the distributed team that manages these activities:
• Managing Manufacturing Order release and scheduling within Costpoint.
• Leading meetings and analysis to ensure production schedules are met.
• Ensuring schedule changes from ECO’s, Make/Buy decisions, and revision changes are implemented efficiently, and impacted Manufacturing Orders are updated.
• Identifying and resolving material shortages prior to production need dates.
• Communicating material shortages to Planning and Purchasing.
• Facility utilization planning.
• Maintain status information for projects and products that are in production.
• Coordinate with Planning, Procurement and Logistics teams to ensure delivery schedule is met.
• Maintain and monitor performance metrics.
• Maintain and develop production cost tracking data.
• Defect tracking and MRB representation.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree or 10+ years of production control, planning, materials management, or manufacturing management.
• Prior experience with the manufacturing of capital, security or aviation related products.
• Experience in planning activities and vendor management
• Ability to communicate effectively and efficiently, both in writing and verbally, to a wide-range of audiences
• Ability to solve complex problems, often with limited information and guidance
• Experience with MES and ERP tools, ideally Costpoint.
Competencies:
• Personal sense of integrity and trust
• Ability to identify, prioritize, and manage critical issues, to avoid escalations/conflicts at a later stage
• Effective time management skills
• Ability to translate data into actionable information
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Driven by our talented workforce, the Security Enterprise Solutions (SES) is the cornerstone of Leidos’ comprehensive suite of fully integrated security detection and automation solutions for aviation, ports and borders, and critical infrastructure customers around the world, with more than 24,000 products deployed across 120 countries. Leidos is positioned to address emerging and evolving threats through rapid development of innovative solutions for our global customers.