Master Scheduler

Subzero Engineering; Wilmington (NC); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Subzero Engineering in Wilmington, NC is seeking a Master Scheduler to develop daily, weekly and monthly production plans for Glass, Insulated Glass, Door and Frame departments, coordinating with sales and operations. You will analyze orders, available staff and inventory, monitor performance and adjust schedules to minimize downtime, meet deadlines and control production costs.

The role requires collaboration across teams, reporting on on-time delivery and efficiency, and leading continuous

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of Supply Chain/Production Scheduling experience.
• LEAN and Continuous Improvement experience (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 the organization.
• Ability to collaborate to balance schedules, inventory, and delivery dates.
• Ability to adapt to issues like material shortages, equipment failures, or changes to orders.
• Ability to perform in all units of measure and interpret data.

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 order specifications and availability of workers, parts, materials, machines.
• Manages SIOP process and resolves related issues.
• Optimizes identical processes to reduce machine setups.
• Identify problems to improve efficiency.
• Ensure company deadlines are met.
• Distributes work orders with quantities and expected completion dates.
• Communicates changes in processing methods to supervisors and engineering.

Skills

Production scheduling

LEAN / CI

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Forecasting

Scheduling software

Education

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

Job description

We are searching for an experienced Master Scheduler at our Wilmington, NC facility.

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

Job 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.

Duties & 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.

Required Qualifications

Required 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.

Required Education

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

Salary, Exempt

Annual Salary

Our company provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.