Strategic Steel Materials Planner & Production Control Lead

Novax Recruitment Group; Arkansas; On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Novax Recruitment Group is partnering with a leading U.S. structural steel fabricator to recruit a Production Control professional.

You will ensure correct steel is purchased, allocated, and released to fabrication shops, interfacing with detailing, purchasing, project management and production. The role focuses on reviewing drawings and BOMs, determining steel grades and quantities, and optimizing material flow across multiple shops.

Qualifications

• Background in production control, material planning, CNC programming or steel purchasing.
• Ability to read shop drawings and understand BOMs.
• Experience with beams, columns, plate and main-member material.
• Knowledge of nesting and cut optimisation.
• Tekla PowerFab/EPM, FabTrol or similar software experience.

Responsibilities

• Review fabrication drawings, BOMs and material requirements.
• Determine required steel grades, quantities and lengths.
• Purchase material from mills and service centres.
• Produce and check cut lists.
• Manually nest material to minimise waste.
• Allocate material across multiple fabrication shops.
• Coordinate drawing and work-package releases.
• Track inventory, shortages, remnants and replacement material.
• Support subcontracted fabrication packages.
• Work with detailing, purchasing, project management and production.

Skills

Reading drawings

BOM understanding

Material planning

Steel purchasing

Nesting optimization

Tekla PowerFab/EPM

FabTrol

Leadership potential

CNC programming

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Tekla PowerFab/EPM

FabTrol

Job description

Novax Recruitment Group is partnering with a leading U.S. structural steel fabricator to recruit a Production Control professional.

You will ensure correct steel is purchased, allocated, and released to fabrication shops, interfacing with detailing, purchasing, project management and production. The role focuses on reviewing drawings and BOMs, determining steel grades and quantities, and optimizing material flow across multiple shops.