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 and cyber, and Simulation. Metrea Management provides central services to 12 global business units via Operations, Solutions, Strategy, Legal, and Finance teams. 

Position Summary 

The primary purpose of this position, PRODUCTION CONTROLLER, is to perform a variety of production planning and 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.

Essential Functions Statements 

• 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 both immediate and long-range requirements based on current workload forecasts and conditioned-based maintenance and develops plans for obtaining 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.

Competency Statements

•    Proven and demonstrable attention to detail skills.

•    Excellent problem-solving skills, being able to determine 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.

Supervisory Responsibility
 This role has no supervisory responsibilities. 

Work Environment
This job operates within flight line maintenance parameters. This role routinely carried outdoors and uses standard equipment such as electronic and pneumatic test equipment, hand tools, ground power units for aircraft, integrated maintenance information systems, lifts, metal cutters, power drills, rivet tools, portable computing devices, and protective headsets/ear plugs.  

Physical Demands
This is a largely physical role; however, some physical abilities may be required.  

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
This is a Part-time position with varying working hours to meet the US government customer requirements, and department and business needs. typical working hours of Monday through Friday. Hours and work shifts may change by department and business needs.  Non-exempt employees may be required to work over 29 hours per week with approval from the department manager. This job operates in an office/warehouse facility.  This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets. 

Facility Location:  

Metrea Strategic Mobility 

17301 Heacock Street, Moreno Valley, CA 92551 

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