Production Controller

Company Overview
Metrea is a defense company dedicated to translating commercial innovation into solutions for the hardest problems in national security. With deep mission expertise, Metrea focuses on delivering effects as-a-service across a spectrum of domains including Air & Space, Electromagnetic & Cyber, and Synthetic. Metrea Management provides central services to eleven (11) global capability units via Operations, Solutions, Strategy, Legal, and Finance teams.

Capability Unit 

Metrea Strategic Mobility (MSM) operates a fleet of KC-135 aircraft, offering an air-to-air refueling service that seamlessly, safely, and professionally integrates into military aviation training and operations. 

Position Summary 

The primary purpose of this position, Production Controller, is to perform a variety of production planning, scheduling, and material technician tasks, in direct support of maintenance programs and operations. These operations include the repair, overhaul, manufacture, and/or modification of various systems.

Role and Responsibilities 

• Research, analyze, plan, and initiate job acceptance for programmed/unprogrammed workloads.
• Manage shop capacity and calculate and establish shop hours based on workload mixture in systems to control input to maintenance.
• Responsible for advising, planning, and coordinating aircraft maintenance requirements and utilization scheduling between maintenance, operations, and external organizations.
• Monitor multiple shop operations, plan, and manage actual production start dates, manage assets in work, and monitor assets in-queue in support of the Maintenance Director.
• Provide material management support to production operations by ordering parts and materials.
• Identify developments in the field of production so that the department can benefit from the latest improvements available.
• Plan schedules for projects in alignment with production activity by liaising with the wider media production team and forecasting any budget or resource requirements in advance.
• Work professionally with production management to deliver and ensure buy-in to the company’s strategic priorities.
• Take responsibility for raising issues on printing costs and use a range of systems to monitor and track costs and schedules.
• Researches and determines cause for missed maintenance-related scheduled events and documents findings as required.
• Implements maintenance plans through the development and publication of maintenance schedules to include scheduled and unscheduled repair actions, time-sensitive inspections or modifications, component-time change replacement, and aircraft or system inspections.
• Reviews immediate and long-range requirements based on current workload forecasts and conditioned-based maintenance and develops plans to obtain resources to meet production requirements. Plans allocation of resources and distribution of work to ensure production commitments are accomplished as scheduled.
• All other duties assigned.

Skills and Experience 

Education: 

• High school diploma or equivalent. 

Experience: 

• 2+ years of working experience with a general knowledge of the functions and procedures of production control, records, references, and techniques for developing production control data. Knowledge of KC-135 maintenance procedures, supply, production control, or data entry.  

Skills: 

• Proven and demonstrable attention to detail skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, determining causes of errors and deciding on the course of action to solve.
• Comprehensive understanding of company philosophy and processes.
• Must be able to take initiative and work independently.
• Excellent communication skills, the ability to read and understand the information presented in writing, diagrams, and schematics.
• Must be able to accomplish all duties with little or no assistance.

Computer Skills: 

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite products (specifically Word and Excel) 

Certificates and Licenses: 

• Valid Driver’s License.