Director of Planning and Production Coordination

POSITION: Director of Planning and Production Coordination

SHIFT: Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Additional hours based on business demand

SALARY: $139362 - $155161.50 (DOE) Full Benefits Package

LOCATION: On-site in office in Fargo ND

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES

The Director of Planning and Production Coordination leads enterprise planning and production coordination across CSP Tank and Structural product lines. The role establishes consistent planning standards aligns demand with capacity ensures production readiness balances workloads across sites and supports reliable customer commitments. The role owns the planning system and coordination processes.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Embrace and demonstrate the qualities of the TrueNorth Steel Game Changer definition.
• Comply with all safety quality environmental and workplace requirements.
• Lead coach and develop the CSP Tank and Structural Planning Leaders and the Production Coordinator Supervisor establishing clear expectations accountability and succession coverage.
• Establish and continuously improve an integrated planning and production-coordination system with common standards planning horizons terminology decision rights data requirements and escalation paths.
• Align customer demand forecasts backlog inventory labor equipment material availability and site capability into executable production plans.
• Confirm customer commit-date feasibility using verified readiness material capacity outside-processing site and delivery information.
• Provide an enterprise view of capacity and constraints leading approved workload-balancing actions such as site transfers priority changes outsourcing overtime and staffing adjustments.
• Define and enforce production-readiness requirements for drawings bills of material routing material CNC and nesting information quality requirements outside services job packets shipping information and approvals.
• Lead regular site product-line and enterprise planning reviews that surface demand capacity backlog readiness schedule performance risks and decisions requiring action.
• Partner with Manufacturing Sales Project Management Estimating Drafting Engineering Purchasing Inventory Control Quality Shipping Logistics Finance and other functions to resolve planning constraints.
• Govern planning and production coordination data and transactions in SyteLine Tekla and other approved systems including capacity assumptions work-center data production status and readiness information.
• Define performance measures and dashboards for schedule backlog capacity readiness equipment use changes and failure-related costs. Use data to improve delivery throughput material utilization and profitability.
• Establish repeatable standard work documentation training cross-training and backup coverage to reduce dependence on individual knowledge.
• Serve as the escalation point for significant cross-site cross-product and cross-functional planning issues. Elevate unresolved matters with facts alternatives risks and recommendations.
• Support annual business capacity capital workforce and budget planning along with strategic manufacturing initiatives.
• Provide the VP of Manufacturing with regular updates on planning risks delivery capacity material organizational needs trends and recommended actions.
• Travel to manufacturing sites is required to understand processes build relationships support teams and ensure consistent implementation of planning and production-coordination standards.
• Prompt and dependable attendance.
• Other duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND QUALITIES

• Strong knowledge of manufacturing planning scheduling capacity management production coordination inventory and shop-floor execution.
• Ability to lead leaders and standardize planning processes across multiple manufacturing sites or business units.
• Working knowledge of ERP-supported planning bills of material routing work centers job release inventory and production transactions.
• Strong analytical judgment and ability to balance customer commitments manufacturing capability cost and business risk.
• Effective communication facilitation change leadership and cross-functional influence skills.
• High integrity accountability attention to detail sound judgment and bias toward action.
• Commitment to safety quality customer service teamwork and continuous improvement.

EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE

• Bachelors degree in Operations Management Supply Chain Management Engineering Manufacturing Business Administration Construction Management or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
• Minimum of ten years of progressive responsible experience in manufacturing operations planning scheduling supply chain project coordination or a related field preferred including five years of leadership experience.
• Experience leading multi-site planning or operational processes ERP-supported planning and cross-functional improvement preferred.
• Experience in steel fabrication metal manufacturing project-based manufacturing or a related industrial environment preferred.

Required Experience:

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