Production Leadership | Planning & Scheduling | Operational Execution

Operational control.
Clear priorities.
Measurable results.

Experience across people leadership, quality planning, production, scheduling, materials, inventory, suppliers, and floor operations. My leadership style emphasizes clear, effective communication, accountability, and continuous improvement, keeping teams and stakeholders aligned around expectations, priorities, and measurable results.

20+Years in manufacturing
30+Production associates led
1,400+SKUs STABILIZED
Jason Connor
Jason ConnorTemperance, MI
01 / OPERATING PHILOSOPHY

Control the operation before the operation controls you.

01What needs to ship?Demand
02What is already late?Risk
03What material is missing?Constraint
04What can run right now?Execution
05Where is capacity tight?Capacity
06Where does labor need to be?Deployment
07What changed since the plan was made?Reality

What I lead

Where strategy meets the factory floor.

I work across the points where customer demand, labor, equipment, material, capacity, and priorities collide. I turn them into an executable operating plan.

01

Manufacturing leadership

Build trust, recognize potential, create opportunities for advancement, and hold people accountable to clear expectations. I believe in promoting from within when people are ready, while also bringing in outside talent when different experience and perspective can strengthen the team.

02

Production planning & scheduling

Demand, machine loading, sequencing, capacity, priorities, material readiness, schedule recovery, and execution controls that protect output and customer expectations.

03

Production operations

Daily floor leadership, labor deployment, machine and workload priorities, utilization, execution, accountability, and delivery performance.

04

Operational execution

Recovering past-due schedules, identifying hidden constraints, restoring priority discipline, and creating a more controlled operating rhythm.

05

Materials & inventory

Improving material availability, shortage visibility, inventory accuracy, replenishment, staging, receiving flow, and production readiness.

06

Cross-functional execution

Customers experience the company as one operation, not separate departments. I connect production, quality, materials, sales, purchasing, suppliers, and shipping so problems are resolved before they become customer failures.

07

Communication

Clear, direct communication across employees, leadership, and cross-functional teams. Skilled at turning complex issues into understandable expectations, priorities, and action.

Systems & tools

I build operating tools because the answer has to be usable.

ERP systems usually contain the data. The problem is getting the right answer fast enough to act. I build practical views around production, scheduling, material, status, capacity, and risk so managers can make decisions without digging through reports.

ERP / Shop-Floor DataOrders · Due Dates · Inventory · Routings · Current Status
→
Operational LogicPriorities · Shortages · Capacity · Exceptions · Operating Risk
Google Sheets / Apps ScriptAutomation · Live Views · Workflow · Decision Support
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Management ViewsWhat Needs Attention · Who Owns It · What Happens Next
The goal is faster, better operating decisions.A useful system turns ERP and shop-floor data into a clear answer managers can act on without digging through reports.

Career snapshot

Built across the full operating chain.

Production, scheduling, materials, supplier management, inventory, and international assembly experience create a broader view of why manufacturing plans succeed or fail.

2023 — Present

Production Manager

Bunting Bearings · Holland, Ohio

Daily production leadership, production scheduling, labor and capacity deployment, priority setting, schedule recovery, performance accountability, and real-time operating control.

2021 — 2023

Materials Manager

Axis Engineering · Britton, Michigan

Materials management, receiving, inventory control, material flow, shortage visibility, and team leadership.

2017 — 2021

Master Scheduler

Axis Engineering · Britton, Michigan

Supplier commitments, production and tooling schedules, risk recovery, sourcing, and supplier performance.

2016 — 2017

Production Scheduler

Bunting Bearings · Holland, Ohio

CNC and manual machining schedules, machine loading, production sequencing, and backlog recovery.

1998 — 2015

Assembly Coordinator — Taiwan Division

MAC Valves · Dundee, Michigan

International assembly operations, product growth, inventory management, and material-flow systems.