Production Control Lead

Production Planning & Scheduling

• Develop,manage, and communicate master production schedules, balancing demand with material availability and factory capacity.
• Maintain up-to-date order information to ensure all partners (including upstream factories and downstream customers) receive the information and updates needed to manage their business effectively and efficiently.
• Monitor daily, weekly, and monthly production performance against plan, identify gaps, and drive timely corrective actions.

Quotation Management & Pricing Administration

• Manage the end-to-end process for receiving, reviewing, and maintaining supplier quotations, ensuring alignment with technical specifications, commercial terms, and company requirements.
• Validate pricing, lead times, MOQs, and payment terms; coordinate with suppliers on clarifications and revisions, and escalate risks or discrepancies to relevant stakeholders.
• Maintain and update pricing and quotation validity in ERP/PLM systems, ensuring data accuracy, traceability, and proper version control.
• Monitor quotation expiration and proactively drive renewals to avoid supply or pricing gaps.
• Support cost analysis, benchmarking, and sourcing decisions while maintaining a complete and auditable record of all quotations and communications.

Product Ramp & Production Readiness

• Cross-functional coordination to ensure all documentation, materials, and resources are fully aligned for a smooth and on-time production ramp.
• Verify readiness of all ramp-critical elements, including BOMs, drawings, specifications, work instructions, quality standards, material availability, and production capacity prior to pilot and mass production.
• Drive readiness reviews with internal teams and manufacturing partners; validate schedules and enforce disciplined production date commitments based on secured materials and dependencies.
• Monitor ramp milestones and proactively identify, escalate, and mitigate risks impacting timing, cost, or quality.
• Support pilot builds and early production to ensure stable processes, rapid issue resolution, and capture of lessons learned for continuous improvement.

Material & Inventory Control

• Ensure material readiness for all production orders to support uninterrupted manufacturing.
• Partner with procurement and external partners to identify and communicate risks, then plan and execute agreed upon mitigation actions to material and capacity shortages before they happen.
• Maintain accurate visibility of inventory, including on-hand, WIP, and allocated materials.
• Reconcile and prevent discrepancies between factory ERP systems and internal systems.

Factory Coordination & Execution

• Serve as the primary point of contact for production control with assembly factories.
• Lead regular production review meetings to track progress and address issues. Document discrepancies and participate in retrospectives and corrective action planning to improve processes.
• Identify, assess, and escalate production constraints (e.g., capacity, processes, component shortages).
• Proactively propose and own implementation of solutions to risks affective on-time, in-full delivery of orders (e.g., overtime, alternative sourcing, priority shifts).

Data Management & Reporting

• Ensure accuracy and integrity of production data within ERP and other company systems. Maintain and respect strict version control for BOM to ensure accurate, consistent production.
• Develop and maintain production tracking tools, reports, and dashboards.
• Monitor and report key production KPIs, including on-time delivery, schedule adherence, material availability, and delay root causes with recovery actions.

Process & SOP Management

• Establish, implement, and enforce production control processes and SOPs to meet business goals.
• Ensure timely and accurate production status updates from factories and internal stakeholders.
• Standardize reporting mechanisms for delays and root cause analysis.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Procurement, Product Development, Sales, and Logistics to align on production plans, material readiness, and delivery commitments.
• Communicate clearly and frequently so stakeholders are all on the same page.