At Expo Technologies

Simplifying Complexity. Delivering Safety.

With over 70 years of experience and deep knowledge of hazardous area standards, Expo Technologies develops and delivers simple, robust, certified solutions that improve safety and save our customers time and cost.

About The Role

As our Production Controller, you will be responsible for the effective planning, scheduling, and progression of customer orders, from receipt of sales order through production and final shipment.

Working closely with stakeholders across the business, you will coordinate activities to ensure excellent On-Time Delivery (OTD) and On-Time In-Full (OTIF) performance. You will maintain the accuracy and integrity of production planning data within our Epicor Kinetic ERP system, ensuring that schedules, capacity planning, and order status information remain up to date and reliable.

The role also includes direct line management responsibility for the Shipping and Packing team, ensuring orders are dispatched accurately, efficiently, and in line with customer requirements.

What You'll Do

• Prepare, maintain and communicate accurate production schedules, capacity plans, material availability and delivery status information.
• Participate in Production, Sales, Engineering and Operations meetings to identify risks, coordinate actions and support informed business decisions.
• Act as the central coordination point between Production, Purchasing, Engineering, Quality, Dispatch, and Sales.
• Own and maintain the master production schedule within Epicor Kinetic.
• Schedule work according to labour capacity, production capability, material availability and customer requirements to meet delivery dates.
• Challenge and validate delivery commitments, ensuring production schedules remain achievable and aligned with capacity, material availability, and business priorities.
• Develop and coordinate recovery plans where production schedules are at risk, ensuring priorities reflect customer and business requirements.
• Provide recommendations to management regarding delivery commitments, resource requirements, and production priorities.
• Maintain rolling capacity plans and labour capacity versus demand models, identifying future bottlenecks and resource constraints.
• Maintain the integrity and accuracy of production planning, scheduling, and delivery data within Epicor Kinetic.
• Promote and maintain compliance with Epicor processes and procedures.
• Manage MRP messages and planning recommendations, ensuring actions are reviewed, communicated, and completed.
• Expedite issues affecting production delivery, such as shortages, missing data, engineering queries, and capacity constraints.
• Advise on long lead-time purchased parts with support from the Procurement department and ensure they are considered when agreeing delivery dates with Sales and Engineering.
• Provide Purchasing with advance warnings of priority parts and material requirements.
• Work closely with Stores and Purchasing to ensure material availability, inventory accuracy, kit readiness, and production continuity.
• Maintain visibility of job progress and escalate concerns to achieve delivery commitments.
• Support Sales and Customer Service by providing accurate production status, delivery forecasts, and recovery plans to support customer communications.
• Ensure Production teams have access to correct drawings, BOMs, routings, work instructions, and planning information.
• Develop and maintain Epicor BAQs, dashboards, and KPI reporting to support operational decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Monitor OTD and OTIF performance and coordinate recovery actions for delivery risk.
• Support Production Manager, Purchasing Manager, and Operations Director in developing and maintaining reports and KPI metrics for labour, materials, delivery performance, quality, and operational efficiency.
• Manage, coach, and develop direct reports ensuring clear objectives, meeting performance expectations, and maintaining training and development plans.
• Lead Packing and Shipping functions, ensuring customer orders are prepared, packed, documented, and dispatched accordingly.
• Prioritise Packing and Shipping activities in line with production schedules and customer commitments.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives that enhance planning accuracy, production flow, and operational efficiency.