TACOM (ANAD) Production Control Clerk (Contingency)

About the role

The U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) sustains the Army’s mission to develop, acquire, field, and sustain ground combat, tactical, and support systems throughout their lifecycle. The program focuses on ensuring operational readiness, reliability, and safety of automotive and ground support equipment critical to Army operations. Under this contract, personnel provide maintenance, repair, overhaul, and sustainment support in accordance with Army technical manuals, safety standards, and performance requirements. The Production Control Clerk provides administrative and technical support for maintenance and production control operations that underlie mission-critical TACOM activities. The role is responsible for tracking, documenting, and coordinating maintenance actions, workload schedules, and material requirements to ensure timely and efficient completion of maintenance operations. This position is contingent upon award. The position will be performed in office, maintenance facilities, depots, and field environments that require a combination of desk-based project work and hands-on operations. There is potential exposure to machinery, tools, fuels, oils, and outdoor conditions.

Responsibilities

• Helps develop cost estimates at the request of depot customers.
• Coordinates and assists with pre-production and pre-planning meetings.
• Assists in developing production schedules, keeps production schedules updated.
• Monitors program funding to include costs incurred and funds remaining.
• Reports any discrepancies in funding, schedules, or quality up to the higher-level production controller or the Logistics Management Specialist.
• Creates, maintains, and/or changes production routes, and bills of materials for the depot operating system with assistance from the higher-level GS 09 production controller.
• Sends out notifications to other depot organizations informing them when a maintenance program order is ready to be opened or closed.
• Works within the organization at the work center level to reconcile data, correct any cost issues, clear up any outstanding service charges, and ensure all labor hours are charged correctly prior to the program manager closing out a maintenance program.
• Assists higher level production controllers with estimates of man-hours and materials required for accomplishing the program by operation.
• Assists higher level production controllers in studying existing shop layouts, availability of special tools, equipment, facilities, manpower, and skills.
• Attends lower level production meetings and reports back any issues or taskers to the higher level production controller or Logistics Management Specialist.
• Assists higher level production controllers in determining if production is being accomplished according to schedule and meeting quality requirements by gathering completion data, by assisting cost centers and journeyman level specialists in identifying production issues such as manpower, available materials, etc.
• Helps determine causes such as improper layout, inadequate quality control procedures/processes, tooling, parts shortages or errors in man-hour standards.
• Assists higher level production controllers by gathering information to assist them in recommending parts/components for reclamation based on cost and/or usage.
• Assists higher level production controllers to determine if the cost of fabrication of parts is economical and does not exceed the estimated cost of material.