Highlights
Assisting Planning in connecting with sales, engineering, production, and materials teams — ensuring that manufacturing orders (MOs) are created accurately, tracked through every stage of production, and closed out (transacted) correctly in our ERP/MRP system. Create Packing Slip and Certificate of Conformance paperwork in ERP system ensuring alignment of corresponding customer PO lines to Packing Slip lines.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Hood River, OR |
| Industry | Aerospace and Defense |
| Company Size | 5,000 to 9,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1957 |
| Website | https://www.heico.com/ |
Description
POSITION SUMMARY
The Production Control Assistant is responsible for managing the full lifecycle of production orders within our composites manufacturing operation. Assisting Planning in connecting with sales, engineering, production, and materials teams — ensuring that manufacturing orders (MOs) are created accurately, tracked through every stage of production, and closed out (transacted) correctly in our ERP/MRP system.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:
Order Creation:
- Create manufacturing orders (work orders/travelers) in the ERP/MRP system based on sales orders, forecasts, or engineering releases
- Print manufacturing orders (MO) and production travelers as scheduled
- Verify bill of materials (BOM), routings, and revision levels are current before order release
- Confirm material availability and flag shortages to Materials/Purchasing
- Kit, issue and deliver components and parts directly to departmental manufacturing orders
- Validate released documentation is correct and included with each work order
- Support order priorities and due dates in line with the master production schedule
Order Monitoring:
- Track manufacturing orders through each stage (layup, trim, assembly, paint/finish, inspection, packaging)
- Monitor work-in-process (WIP) against schedule, assisting to identify and escalate delays
- Maintain accurate status updates in the ERP system and shop floor tracking tools
- Provide regular status reports to Planning and Production
Order transacting / Closeout:
- Process labor and material against orders (issues, receipts, backflushing) as work is completed
- Reconcile actual material and labor consumption against standards; investigate and resolve variances
- Process and route approved QA components to the next production or shipping stage
- Close completed orders in the ERP system, ensuring accurate inventory
- Support month-end/quarter-end WIP reconciliation and inventory counts
Additional Responsibilities:
- Create Packing Slip and Certificate of Conformance paperwork in ERP system ensuring alignment of corresponding customer PO lines to Packing Slip lines
- Assist with local part deliveries
- Forklift operation, after internal training
- Assist Inventory Team with scheduled cycle counts
- Assist Shipping/Receiving Team, when necessary
- Ability to respond and react to pull stock signal system
- Continuous improvement efforts for Planning and Production processes
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- High level of computer proficiency and ability to learn new software systems
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, including sorting/filtering, basic formulas and working with production or inventory data
- Strong data entry accuracy
- Basic understanding of manufacturing processes, inventory control or production planning preferred
- Experience with ERP/MRP systems preferred
- Clear written and verbal communication across cross-functional teams
- Highly organized with good attention to detail
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify discrepancies and research data to resolve them
- Ability to anticipate and solve practical problems
- Demonstrated reliability and follow-through
- Team orientated, with a positive attitude
- Valid driver’s license
Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Protected Veterans/Disabled
About Company
HEICO Corporation is a successful and growing technology-driven aerospace, industrial, defense and electronics company. For more than 60 years, HEICO has thrived by providing customers with innovative and cost-saving products and services.
HEICO's products are found on large commercial aircraft, regional, business and military aircraft, as well as on a large variety of industrial turbines, targeting systems, missiles and electro-optical devices.
HEICO Corporation is a New York Stock Exchange listed company (NYSE: HEI and HEI.A) and has also been ranked as one of the 100 "World's Most Innovative Growth Companies", 100 "Best Small Companies" and 200 "Hot Shot Stocks" by Forbes over the past decade. With headquarters in Hollywood, Florida, and multiple locations around the world - HEICO provides over 1 million square feet of design, manufacturing, repair, overhaul, distribution, sales and support capabilities.
HEICO Corporation operates in two segments, the Flight Support group and the Electronic Technologies group. The Flight Support group designs, engineers, manufactures, repairs, distributes and overhauls FAA-approved parts that extend over the entire aircraft, from the engines all the way to hydraulic, pneumatic, electromechanical, avionic, structures, wheels and brakes and even interiors.
The Electronic Technologies group produces electrical and electro-optical systems and components serving niche segments of the aerospace, defense, communications, and computer industries. The Electronic Technologies group is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and sale of electrically and electro-optical engineered products used in the aerospace, defense, space, and electronics industries.
By combining state-of-the-art technologies, a team of highly skilled Team Members and an indisputable commitment to quality, both segments have constantly delivered invaluable solutions to customers over the years, helping to position them as leaders within their industries.