Global Process Digital Authority - Production Planning & Scheduling

Job Description Summary

Define and own the global digital standard for production planning and scheduling across Gas Power manufacturing sites. This role translates the network supply plan into a sequenced, capacity-constrained factory schedule and owns the tools and processes that support that conversion globally. Works primarily with production control leaders, master schedulers, and buyers, and partners closely with the Integrated Planning GPDA upstream and the Shopfloor Execution GPDA downstream to ensure the planning chain flows without gaps or manual intervention.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Global Standard Definition & GPDA Authority

• Define and own the global digital blueprint for production planning and scheduling across Gas Power manufacturing sites. Establish the global standard and partner with local production control and planning teams to adopt and implement it consistently across all sites.
• Own the digital standard for rough-cut capacity planning at the factory level, serving as the bridge between the network supply plan produced by the Integrated Planning GPDA and the detailed factory schedule. Ensure the factory capacity view is structured, visible, and actionable before demand is committed to a schedule.
• Partner with the Integrated Planning GPDA as the primary upstream interface: receive the validated supply plan and translate it into an executable, capacity-constrained factory schedule. Partner with the Shopfloor Execution GPDA as the primary downstream interface: ensure released work orders are structured in a way that execution tools can consume without manual intervention.
• Partner with the Warehousing and Material Flow GPDA to confirm material availability aligns to schedule requirements before work orders are released to the floor.

• Own the digital standard for the full production planning and scheduling process: master production scheduling, detailed capacity planning, work order sequencing, short-interval scheduling, and schedule adherence tracking.
• Lead the functional evaluation, piloting, and global standardization of an Advanced Planning and Scheduling solution. Own the business requirements, functional specifications, user acceptance criteria, and functional sign-off across the full implementation lifecycle, in partnership with Digital Technology and the New Technology Introduction team.
• Translate current scheduling practices into structured digital requirements: capacity constraints, sequencing logic, material availability checks, exception management, and schedule performance reporting. Maintain a platform-agnostic global process standard so the standard survives tool changes and platform decisions.
• Own the integration standard between the scheduling system and ERP, ensuring work orders, capacity data, and material signals flow reliably without manual intervention. Partner with the Master Data Governance team to confirm scheduling master data, including routings, work centers, cycle times, and capacity parameters, aligns to global data standards before go-live.
• Co-own application selection and solution design with Digital Technology and the New Technology Introduction team.

• Build and coordinate a global network of site-level production planning and scheduling process owners and subject matter experts. Lead a formal Community of Practice across production control and planning teams to drive standard adoption, share scheduling best practices across sites, and prevent local workarounds from becoming embedded practice.
• Serve as the primary escalation point when sites diverge from the global standard. Monitor post-deployment scheduling outcomes and identify gaps between the standard and actual production planning execution, driving controlled updates to the global standard as needed.
• Conduct process walks with production control leaders, planners, and buyers at each site before deployment to validate readiness. Develop training materials and job aids aligned to the global standard, and support pilot and deployment phases in partnership with the Digital Program Manager. Ensure lessons learned from each site are incorporated into the global standard so every subsequent deployment improves on the last.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years in production planning, scheduling, or manufacturing operations in an industrial environment, with direct accountability for scheduling outcomes or process standards.
• Hands-on experience with production scheduling in ERP environments (SAP or Oracle) and working knowledge of Advanced Planning and Scheduling concepts and tools.
• Proven experience defining process standards and driving adoption across multi-site manufacturing networks.
• Experience translating scheduling and capacity planning requirements into functional specifications for technology teams.
• Strong influencing and facilitation skills with production control leaders, master schedulers, and buyers across a global manufacturing organization.

• Familiarity with Advanced Planning and Scheduling platforms in a discrete or complex manufacturing environment. Experience supporting APS evaluation or implementation is a strong differentiator.
• Exposure to MES integration requirements and how schedule data flows into shop floor execution systems.
• Lean manufacturing background; familiar with pull scheduling, takt-based planning, and short-interval scheduling principles.
• Familiarity with ERP scheduling integration requirements across SAP and Oracle environments.
• Comfortable operating in a role where the digital standard and the tool are being defined simultaneously, and where influencing without direct authority is the primary mechanism for driving change.