Master Scheduler

Purpose

Duties and Responsibilities

• Designs, maintains, owns and continuously improves the detailed manufacturing schedule.
• Communication of short-term and long term schedule. Focused on delivering products on-time by identifying constraints and proposing scheduling modifications to relieve constraints.
• Coordinates personnel and resource requirements within manufacturing to ensure proposed schedules can be met. The role will ensure alignment with all Quality compliance, process requirements, readiness, timeline and revenue commitments, including asset availability to ensure schedule adherence and maximize efficiency and asset utilization.
• Requires scheduling meetings to update schedules and incorporate non-routine activities along with advanced levels of information sharing and interactions with all functional groups across Thermogenics for key inputs and for reporting outputs.
• Ensures that all KPI’s, metrics, and commitments are being managed and issues resolved in a timely manner to aide overall success for the group.
• Partners with manufacturing to schedule preventive maintenance, corrective/general maintenance, and CAPEX activities.
• Collaborates with Change Control team and supports the change control process as it applies to new products.
• Designs, coordinates, and executes minor scheduling projects related to scheduling process. Scheduler formalizes all key inputs, requirements and parameters into a short-term detailed production schedule.
• Develops and implements scheduling best practices (Heijunka boards, Kanban pull signals, Shop floor visual management).
• Lead problem solving efforts associated with production planning; determine root cause of problems and implement short and long term corrective actions.