Production Control Manager LPC

Principal Area of Responsibility

This role reports directly to the General Manager and serves as the senior leader responsible for all production planning, scheduling, and fulfillment performance for the facility. Provides strategic direction and operational oversight of the master production schedule, and customer delivery commitments to ensure alignment with the plant sales plan, financial objectives, and customer expectations. Owns the end-to-end planning function, ensuring effective integration of demand, capacity, materials, and production execution. Leads and develops the planning organization, including a Planning Supervisor and Production Planners, driving accountability, capability development, and continuous improvement in planning processes and outcomes. Partners cross-functionally with Sales, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Quality leadership to balance customer priorities with operational constraints, optimize inventory and lead times, and enable efficient product flow. Drives disciplined production control, capacity planning, and supplier coordination to meet customer commitments while improving service levels, reducing cost, and supporting overall business performance.

Specific Duties

• Provides strategic direction and operational oversight of the master production schedule and customer delivery commitments.
• Ensures alignment with the plant sales plan, financial objectives, and customer expectations.
• Owns the end-to-end planning function, integrating demand, capacity, materials, and production execution.
• Leads and develops the planning organization, including a Planning Supervisor and Production Planners.
• Drives accountability, capability development, and continuous improvement in planning processes and outcomes.
• Partners cross-functionally with Sales, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Quality leadership to balance customer priorities with operational constraints, optimize inventory and lead times, and enable efficient product flow.
• Drives disciplined production control, capacity planning, and supplier coordination to meet customer commitments while improving service levels, reducing cost, and supporting overall business performance.

Required Skills

With more than 120 operations and approximately 20,000 employees worldwide, Precision Castparts Corp. is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components, aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications. In addition, we are the leading producer of airfoil castings for the industrial gas turbine market. We also manufacture extruded seamless pipe, fittings, and forgings for power generation and oil & gas applications; commercial and military airframe aerostructures; and metal alloys and other materials for the casting and forging industries. With such critical applications, we insist on quality and dependability – not just in the materials and products we make, but in the people we recruit.

Education & Experience

In 2016, Berkshire Hathaway, led by Chairman and CEO Warren E. Buffett, acquired Precision Castparts Corp.