Production Readiness Coordinator

Key Responsibilities

• Review Assembly projects 3 to 4 weeks before production start.


• Review BOMs, engineering drawings, and build plans for completeness and manufacturing readiness.


• Identify missing drawings, incomplete BOMs, engineering issues, shortages, and other risks to production.


• Evaluate material shortages based on when the material is required within the build, rather than treating all shortages equally.


• Understand the planned sequence and phases of the build well enough to distinguish between:
  
  
  
  • Items required at production start
  
  
  • Items required during early Assembly
  
  
  • Items required later in the build
  
  
  
  


• Provide a documented recommendation of:
  
  
  
  • Go
  
  
  • Go with Exceptions
  
  
  • No-Go / Hold
  
  
  
  


• Present readiness risks and recommendations to Planning and Engineering Managers for final decisions.


• Communicate open items to responsible stakeholders.


• Assign ownership and resolution dates for readiness gaps.


• Escalate issues that may impact the production sequence.


• Prepare a production handoff package for Assembly Supervisors.


• Conduct or support the pre-production handoff with Assembly leadership.


• Support the project through the first week of Assembly to ensure a smooth transition to execution.


• Capture lessons learned from initial Assembly for future readiness reviews.

Material Readiness Responsibilities

The Production Readiness Coordinator will establish material readiness expectations for Material Coordinators and shop personnel.

This includes helping shift the organization from simply asking:

"Is the part here?"

to:

"Is the part available when the production sequence requires it, and if not, what is the actual impact to the build?"

The Coordinator will improve visibility of shortages, required-by dates, ownership, recovery plans, and escalation needs.

The role will establish expectations for material identification, staging, shortage communication, and issue escalation.

Production Handoff

Prior to Assembly, the Production Readiness Coordinator will provide the Assembly Supervisor with a project package that communicates:

• Current drawing and engineering status


• BOM and material readiness


• Known shortages and the build phase affected


• Manufacturing Engineering build-plan requirements


• Significant sequencing considerations


• Known project-specific risks or exceptions


• Open engineering or supply-chain items


• Owner and expected resolution date for each significant open item


• Items requiring attention during early build stages

The objective is for the Assembly Supervisor to begin the project with a clear understanding of what is being built, how it is intended to be built, what risks remain, when those risks may affect production, and who owns their resolution.

Decision Authority

The Production Readiness Coordinator is responsible for independently assessing project readiness and making a go/no-go recommendation.

Final authorization to proceed or delay production remains with the Planning Manager and Engineering Manager.

When recommending that a project proceed with unresolved items, the Coordinator is responsible for clearly documenting the associated risk, affected build phase, responsible owner, and expected resolution date.