Production Coordinator

Production Coordinator

The Production Coordinator serves as the frontline support for production operations, ensuring the production floor runs efficiently, stays on schedule, and meets performance expectations. This role acts as the primary point of contact on the floor for questions, urgent concerns, and work assignments, enabling production personnel to stay focused on their tasks while issues are captured, routed, and resolved quickly and effectively.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for all floor-level requests, questions, and concerns, providing timely support to production personnel.
• Capture and document needs and issues accurately, route them to the appropriate person or team, and follow through to ensure resolution.
• Create inputs by logging problems and improvement opportunities in the input system so they can be tracked and addressed.
• Prevent and resolve issues on the production floor by following established procedures and the Situation Handling Guide.
• Refer personnel to the appropriate team or resource when issues fall outside the coordinators scope or authority.
• Identify high-risk situations and escalate them to leadership in alignment with the Basic Escalation Guide.
• Enforce the production schedule by aligning the right jobs with the right machines at the right time to keep the department on track.
• Assign personnel and resources so team members are in the right place, working on the right tasks, at the right time.
• Manage work movement and organization by scanning jobs and reconciling locations to maintain accurate area and job tracking.
• Ensure all documentation related to jobs, assignments, and production activities is complete, accurate, and up to date.
• Lead a production team of approximately 15-20 employees, providing direction, clarity, and assertive leadership to keep operations running smoothly.
• Support continuous improvement by identifying operational issues and opportunities and communicating them through appropriate channels.

Essential Skills

• Proven experience in production scheduling and planning, with the ability to coordinate multiple jobs and resources effectively.
• Hands-on experience managing production employees, including leading teams of 10 or more people in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to lead and coordinate a team of approximately 15-20 production personnel with confidence and assertiveness.
• Practical knowledge of production operations, workflows, and floor-level problem solving.
• Experience using ERP systems to support production planning, scheduling, and inventory tracking.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage work assignments, documentation, and job tracking accurately.
• Effective communication skills to serve as the primary point of contact for questions, concerns, and urgent issues.
• Ability to identify, document, and escalate high-risk situations in a structured and timely manner.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience with production scheduling and planning tools such as monday.com.
• Experience in inventory management within a production or warehouse environment.
• Experience in the aerospace industry is preferred but not required.
• Bilingual Spanish language skills are a plus but not required.
• Comfort working with laptops and digital tools to log issues, track jobs, and manage documentation.
• Ability to work in a short-term, temp-to-hire arrangement with the potential to transition into a longer-term role based on performance.

Work Environment

This role is fully onsite in a warehouse and production environment, working directly on the production floor. Typical shifts are 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. or 1:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., and there is a need to fill two positions across these schedules. The Production Coordinator will use a laptop and work at a mobile standing desk, moving throughout the production floor to support operations and stay close to the team. The environment is fast-paced, hands-on, and focused on meeting production schedules while maintaining accurate job tracking and documentation.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Commerce, CA.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $30.00 - $38.50/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Oct 31, 2026.

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Commerce, CA.