Master Scheduler

Eliason Corporation; Wilmington (NC); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Eliason Corporation is seeking a Master Production Scheduler to determine and set daily, weekly, and monthly manufacturing schedules. You will examine orders, staff, inventory, and machinery to effectively schedule and manage production across Glass, Insulated Glass, Door and Frame departments at all facilities.

You will monitor performance, adjust schedules for equipment failures or shortages, and look for efficiency gains to reduce costs through smarter scheduling, collaborating with sales,

Qualifications

• Strong organization, prioritization, and planning skills.
• Experience using data to inform production decisions.
• Proven process enhancement skills.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees.

Responsibilities

• Creates master production schedule partnering with sales, supply chain and operations.
• Reports on key metrics including on-time delivery, quality and production efficiency.
• Establishes priorities for specific customer orders.
• Revises schedule according to work orders, priorities, and availability of workers, parts, material, machines, and equipment.
• Manages SIOP process and resolves related issues.
• Optimizes and schedules identical processes to eliminate duplicate machine setups.
• Identify problems to improve efficiency
• Ensure company deadlines are met
• Distributes work orders to departments with numbers and proposed completion dates.
• Communicates with department supervisors about progress and changes in processing methods.
• Compiles reports on progress and downtime to inform planning staff.
• Maintains inventory of materials and parts.
• Expedites production of spare parts and sets delivery dates.

Skills

Organizationskills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering or Business Management

Job description

Overview

Master Production scheduler will determine and set daily, weekly, and monthly manufacturing schedules. To perform this role successfully, one will examine customer orders, available staff and inventory, and machinery capabilities to effectively set and manage production schedules. In addition, the Master Production Scheduler monitors manufacturing performance and actively adjust schedules in response to equipment failures or supply shortages. They also identify opportunities to make processes more efficient and cut down on production costs through more effective scheduling. This role is responsible for scheduling the production for Glass, Insulated Glass, Door and Frame departments. all production facilities.

Position Summary

Master Production scheduler will determine and set daily, weekly, and monthly manufacturing schedules. To perform this role successfully, one will examine customer orders, available staff and inventory, and machinery capabilities to effectively set and manage production schedules. In addition, the Master Production Scheduler monitors manufacturing performance and actively adjust schedules in response to equipment failures or supply shortages. They also identify opportunities to make processes more efficient and cut down on production costs through more effective scheduling. This role is responsible for scheduling the production for Glass, Insulated Glass, Door and Frame departments. all production facilities.

Responsibilities

• Creates master production schedule partnering with sales, supply chain and operations.
• Is accountable for and reports on key metrics, including on-time delivery, quality and production efficiency.
• Establishes priorities for specific customer orders.
• Revises schedule according to work order specifications, established priorities, and availability or capability of workers, parts, material, machines, and equipment.
• Manages SIOP process and resolves related issues.
• Optimizes and schedules identical processes to eliminate duplicate machine setups.
• Identify problems to improve efficiency
• Ensure company deadlines are met
• Distributes work orders to departments, denoting number, type, and proposed completion date of units to be produced.
• Communicates with department supervisors to determine progress of work and to provide information on changes in processing methods received from methods or engineering departments.
• Compiles reports concerning progress of work and downtime due to failures of machines and equipment to apprise production planning personnel of production delays.
• Maintains inventory of materials and parts needed to complete production.
• Expedites production of spare parts and establishes delivery dates for spare parts orders.

Requirements

Education

Bachelors degree in Supply Chain, Engineering or Business Management or related experience.

Experience

• 2-4 years of Supply Chain/Production Scheduling experience.
• LEAN and Continuous Improvement experience, specifically value-stream and process mapping.
• Strong organization, prioritization, and planning skills.
• Ability to use software to create routine reports, schedules, and correspondence.
• Experience reviewing reports and using data to make informed production decisions
• Proven process enhancement skills
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Ability to collaborate in a team to ensure that schedules, inventory availability & delivery dates are balanced
• Ability to adapt & adequately respond to issues like material shortages, equipment failures or changes to customer orders
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Skills

Strong organization, prioritization, and planning skills.

Ability to use software to create routine reports, schedules, and correspondence.

Experience reviewing reports and using data to make informed production decisions

Proven process enhancement skills

Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Ability to collaborate in a team to ensure that schedules, inventory availability & delivery dates are balanced

Ability to adapt & adequately respond to issues like material shortages, equipment failures or changes to customer orders

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.