Role Summary:
As a Master scheduler, your primary function involves planning and scheduling requires to meet customer specifications and deadlines. You will coordinate across various departments such as engineering, purchasing, sales and operations to ensure all customer expectations are met.
Responsibilities:
- Function as planning subject matter expert and coach junior planners
- Balance shop-floor capacity, manpower, and machine loading to meet output plans.
- Check materials, capacity, customer requirements and schedule the work order/commit delivery date to customer
- Using demand plan, create & manage constrained supply plan & rolling production schedule for rolling 6 to 18 months
- Maintain product standard lead time matrix
- Support new product introductions & end of life initiatives by planning material, capacity, and production milestones.
- Improve planning processes and close gaps to achieve Planning maturity targets
- Improve inventory usage by reducing obsolete and slow moving inventory and supporting Just-in-Time material flow.
- Drive Lean/OPEX initiatives to reduce waste, improve productivity & shorten lead times and improve on time delivery & Inventory turns.
- Communicate with internal and external customers to provide updates on order status and expedite requests
- Control incoming and outgoing inventory against the orders.
- Release production orders in Oracle based on customer demand and material availability.
- Coordinate with procurement, stores/kitting, assembly, quality, and suppliers.
- Track material shortages and take action before they delay production.
- Other duties as assigned(Cross-functional meeting and reporting )
Requirements:
- BE or Diploma in engineering or relevant field.
- 8-15 years relevant planning/scheduling experience
- 2+ years experience as Master scheduler
- 3+ years’ experience in Oracle/SAP ERP
- Experience in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, Sharepoint)
- Ability to deal with complex contexts, efficiently planning material availability and capacities
- Experience in industrial engineering
- Strong organizational skills
- Adaptable and flexible
- Demonstrates ownership