Production Planning Assistant

BHP, Inc dba Global Power Components; Street (MD); On-site; USD 38,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Power Components is seeking a detail-oriented Production Planning Assistant to support the production planning team across multiple facilities. You will create, maintain and distribute production documentation, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery to each department.

The role requires the ability to interpret technical drawings (or willingness to learn) and strong organizational skills, with a service-oriented mindset toward internal stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience in an administrative or manufacturing support role.
• Ability to interpret and work with technical drawings (or willingness to learn quickly).
• Strong organizational, time management, and problem-solving skills.
• A service-oriented approach to internal (production) stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain production documentation across multiple facilities.
• Ensure documentation is accurate and tailored to each department's needs.
• Distribute production packets to facilities and coordinate delivery.
• Review ECNs and ensure updates are applied to active production documentation.
• Replace drawings and documents in packets based on ECNs.
• Prioritize workload based on production schedules and deadlines.
• Coordinate with internal teams to provide required documentation and improve workflows.

Skills

Administrative experience

Manufacturing support

Interpret drawings

Organizational skills

Time management

Problem solving

Stakeholder service

Tools

Excel

Adobe

SharePoint

Smartsheet

Job description

Title: Production Planning Assistant

Company: Global Power Components – www.globalpowercomponents.com

Location: Milwaukee, WI (onsite 5-days/week)

Hire Type: Direct Hire

Overview

Global Power Components is a privately held, financially sound, growing manufacturer of UL heavy gauge steel fuel tanks, trailers, large generator enclosures, and modular metal enclosures for housing fully equipped electrical distribution and control equipment. As a result of our continuing expansion and continued organization growth, we are looking for a motivated Production Planning Assistant to join our team.

Description

We are seeking a detail-oriented Production Planning Assistant to support our Production Planning team. This role is responsible for creating, maintaining, and distributing production documentation, across multiple facilities. This role ensures that all departments have accurate and up-to-date information to support ongoing manufacturing operations. This position plays a critical role in keeping production running smoothly by managing documentation workflows, handling engineering changes (ECNs), and coordinating across departments and locations.

Responsibilities

• Create and compile production paperwork packets for multiple departments
• Ensure all documentation is accurate, complete, and tailored to the needs of each department
• Distribute production packets to multiple facilities and coordinate delivery
• Review and process Engineering Change Notices (ECNs), ensuring updates are correctly applied to active production documentation
• Replace drawings and documents in existing production packets, based on ECNs
• Prioritize workload based on production schedules and deadlines
• Coordinate with internal teams to ensure all locations have the required documentation to maintain production flow
• Identify opportunities to improve documentation processes and efficiency

Required Skills

• Experience in an administrative or manufacturing support role
• Ability to interpret and work with technical drawings (or willingness to learn quickly)
• Strong organizational, time management, and problem-solving skills
• A service-oriented approach to internal (production) stakeholders.

Preferred

• Familiarity with Engineering Change Notices (ECNs)
• Experience handling production documentation / engineering drawings
• Experience with ERP systems
• Proficiency with Excel, Adobe, SharePoint, or Smartsheet

About GPC

At Global Power Components, our mission is simple: Inov8OrDie Driven by this mindset, GPC has grown from 200 to more than 2,000 employees in just five years, expanding from one manufacturing facility to four locations across the Milwaukee area, including our new 500,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in West Milwaukee.

We design and manufacture the critical infrastructure that surrounds and supports power generation. But what sets GPC apart isn't just what we build — it's how we work. We move fast. We make decisions. We solve problems. We challenge ourselves to continuously improve, raise the bar and deliver quality work on time. We look for ways to remove unnecessary complexity and make work easier for our customers, our partners and each other. And through it all, we protect our people, our workplaces and the reputation we've built.

GPC isn't a traditional corporate environment — and we don't want to be. We expect people to take ownership, speak up, make decisions and get things done. As GPC continues to grow, our people have opportunities to take on significant responsibility, solve bigger problems and make a visible impact on the business. If you're energized by growth, comfortable with change, willing to roll up your sleeves and want to help build what's next in power generation, GPC is a place where you can make an impact.