In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:
Build and maintain realistic production schedules that align customer demand with plant capacity, helping ensure on-time delivery without overloading operations.
Balance raw materials, WIP, and finished goods by working cross-functionally with Materials, Operations, and Customer Service to keep inventory flowing efficiently.
Anticipate and mitigate risks like downtime or material shortages, adjusting schedules proactively to minimize disruptions.
Take ownership of schedule performance, driving accountability across teams to improve schedule attainment and meet customer commitments.
Use data (bottlenecks, routing inefficiencies, Kanban gaps, etc.) to identify constraints and recommend practical process improvements.
Maintain high data accuracy by managing master data (BOMs, work centers, capabilities), strengthening planning reliability and execution.
Support quality outcomes by coordinating timely disposition of non-conforming materials and ensuring schedules reflect real production conditions.
Communicate clearly and consistently with cross-functional teams, enabling alignment, quick decision-making, and continuous improvement across the operation.
Responsibilities
To be successful, you will need to consistently demonstrate the following:
Communicate clearly across teams and levels, tailoring how you share schedules, risks, and updates so planners, operations, and leadership can all act quickly and confidently.
Keep the customer at the center of every decision, ensuring plans, changes, and trade-offs protect delivery commitments and strengthen trust.
Stay results-driven by consistently meeting planning targets, even when facing constraints like capacity limits, supply shortages, or shifting demand.
Take ownership of outcomes by holding yourself and cross-functional partners accountable for execution, schedule adherence, and KPI performance.
Navigate complexity by analyzing large, sometimes conflicting data sets (demand signals, capacity, inventory, constraints) to make sound planning decisions.
Leverage the materials planning system as your primary tool, using exception messages, alerts, and root cause analysis to maintain accurate supply-demand alignment while supplementing with tools like Excel when needed.
Manage part changes effectively by implementing engineering updates (e.g., obsolescence or new releases) in a way that protects customer supply while minimizing excess or obsolete inventory.
Apply PFEP principles to ensure the right part is in the right place at the right time, aligning master data, material flow, and planning parameters across the supply chain.
Translate high-level demand into realistic capacity plans (RCCP and detailed capacity planning), identifying constraints early and negotiating solutions like overtime or added resources.
Own and continuously refine the master production schedule, ensuring it remains feasible, aligned with operations, and optimized for both efficiency and customer delivery.
Use KPIs to guide decisions, balancing trade-offs across service, inventory, and cost while understanding the downstream impact on the customer.
Embrace diverse perspectives and collaborate inclusively, using different viewpoints to strengthen planning decisions and overall team performance.
Education, Licenses, Certifications:
High school diploma or certificate of completion of secondary education or equivalent experience to the extent such experience meets applicable regulations.
This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
Experience:
Requires some work experience and intermediate level knowledge obtained through training or on-the-job experience. 1-4 years of relevant work experience preferred.
Qualifications
Additional Info:
A scheduler provides operations with a clear build plan that meets customers needs. They will be working closely with internal and external cross functional teams to accomplish this. Communication via email, teams messages, and face to face.
Schedulers multitask and will need to prioritize their workload. Flexibility to adjust plans to coincide with customer needs, available components and capacity.
Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office is helpful.