Master Production Scheduler, Sr

Master Production Scheduler, Sr

Description

Master Production Scheduler - Senior

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We are looking for a talented Master Production Scheduler- Senior to join our team specializing in Supply Chain Planning for our Components Business Segment in Fletcher, NC.

• Establish, manage, and maintain a valid Master Production Schedule for selected items or family of products. Collaborate with other functional teams to ensure customer's expectations and requirements are met.
• Analyze the demand and supply balance at product family, part number, and sub-assembly levels as appropriate.
• Create the Master Production Schedule that satisfies customer demand while optimizing inventory levels and plant capacity utilization.
• Review and manage change requests from customers, plants, or suppliers, making appropriate reschedules in line with the policy.
• Determine the impact of daily customer orders and adjusts the daily production schedule to ensure maximum order fulfillment.
• Work with external and internal cross functional stakeholders to develop and implement short and mid-term tactical improvements.
• Comply with communication plans and processes to ensure stakeholders' needs are met.
• Leverage common processes tools, and information systems.
• Maintain and advise on changes to planning systems parameters as required. Ensures accuracy of the parameters.
• Analyze and interpret KPIs to identify areas for improvement and action plans.
• Lead Six Sigma and functional process improvement teams.
• Mentor and coach Production Schedulers and/or Production Coordinators.
• Ensure common processes are being utilized and internal controls are in place.

• Optimizes work processes - Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Ensures accountability - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Detailed Capacity Planning - Converts and translates the Master Production Schedule into detailed resource requirements resulting in optimized internal capacity utilization and identified constraints; negotiates changes to the schedule or available resources when demand exceeds demonstrated or installed capacity with a focus on meeting Available-to-Promise (ATP) dates; considers different options such as overtime, adding a shift or headcount, etc. to increase capacity during periods of constraint.
• Master Supply Scheduling - Establishes and maintains a valid Master Production Schedule for a family of products, which meets customer's expectations and requirements while maximizing operational efficiency; validates procurement scheduling, production scheduling, and replenishment planning are aligned to manufacturing and assembly assets for conversion.
• Materials KPI Management - Operates in relation to recent or historical outputs as compared to expectations of the organization to determine next steps to drive improvement; assesses gaps to the supply chain performance against the expectation of achieving target deliverables; interprets KPIs to understand end-customer impact; strategically balances trade-offs to influence one KPI while minimizing the impact to others.
• Materials Planning System Utilization - Uses the materials planning system to manage supply and demand plans taking long-term corrective action on exception messages and other alerts based on root cause analysis; occasionally refers to adhoc tools such as Excel, Access, TOAD, OMS, etc. in performing problem solving, while leveraging the materials planning system as the primary tool in day-to-day operations.
• Part Change Control Management - Evaluates and implements engineering change request (obsolescence, supersessions, new part release, etc.) to meet customer delivery requirements while minimizing excess and obsolete inventory.
• Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) - Converts the Demand Plan and Master Supply Plan into critical resource (labor, machine, and materials) requirements resulting in negotiations and/or changes to the plan or available resources to balance supply and demand; focuses on longer term resource planning, not detailed.

• B.S or BA in applicable field
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

• Intermediate level of relevant work experience required
• This is an onsite position