Master Scheduler - Poromerics

2261 DuPont Electronic Materials CMP, LLC

Newark (NJ)

On-site

USD 95,000 - 130,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Qnity is seeking a Master Production Scheduler to develop and manage the Poromerics Master Schedule at its Newark area facility. You will coordinate with commercial, customer service, manufacturing, product marketing, and supply chain teams to ensure alignment of demand, inventory, and capacity with business priorities.

The role requires deep SAP PP/MM knowledge, strong cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to translate strategic plans into executable weekly production schedules across

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, Business, or related field.
5+ years of experience in production planning, scheduling, manufacturing operations, or supply chain planning.
Deep knowledge of SAP PP and MM (SAP ECC).
Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications including Excel, Teams, Power BI and Copilot.
Ability to collaborate across multiple time zones in a global business.

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and publish a Master Production Schedule for the Poromerics business.
Translate the Balanced Plan into a feasible production and inventory plan.
Evaluate monthly and weekly production requirements and inventory targets.
Balance customer demand with inventory policies and manufacturing constraints.
Lead weekly cross-functional reviews of the Master Schedule with relevant functions.
Perform rough-cut capacity planning and identify future capacity gaps.
Own validation of planning data and planning assumptions for the Poromerics unit.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Global teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, Business, or related field

Tools

SAP PP MM (SAP ECC)

Power BI

Copilot / Microsoft 365 tools

Job description

Are you looking to power the next leap in the exciting world of advanced electronics? Do you want to help solve problems that drive success in the rapidly evolving technology and connectivity landscape? Then bring your problem-solving, passion, and creativity to help us power the next leap in electronics. At Qnity, we’re more than a global leader in materials and solutions for advanced electronics and high-tech industries – we’re a tight-knit team that is motivated by new possibilities, and always up for a challenge. All our dedicated teams contribute to making cutting-edge technology possible. We value forward-thinking challengers, boundary-pushers, and diverse perspectives across all our departments, because we know we play a critical role in the world enabling faster progress for all. Learn how you can start or jumpstart your career with us.

Position Summary / Overview

The Master Production Scheduler is accountable for developing, maintaining, and communicating a single, integrated Master Production Schedule for the Poromerics unit at CMP Technologies. As a manufacturing site supplying a global network, Newark supports dependent demand requirements from multiple regions and manufacturing locations. The role serves as the focal point between commercial, customer service, manufacturing operations, product line marketing, and supply chain team to ensure customer requirements, inventory objectives, and operational constraints are properly reflected in the Master Schedule. The position translates the monthly Balanced Plan into a capacity-feasible and executable weekly production plan while ensuring alignment with planned maintenance activities, production trials, qualification activities, resource constraints, inventory policies, and business priorities. The role owns the accuracy and validation of planning data used within the Master Scheduling horizon and facilitates the cross-functional alignment required to continuously validate assumptions and maintain schedule feasibility.

Key Responsibilities

Master Production Scheduling

Develop, maintain, and publish a Master Production Schedule for the Poromerics business.
Translate the Balanced Plan into a feasible production and inventory plan.
Evaluate monthly and weekly production requirements and inventory targets.
Balance customer demand, inventory policies, manufacturing constraints, and available capacity.
Ensure the transition from volume planning to detailed scheduling is executable and stable.
Conduct scenario analysis and evaluate alternatives to support business decisions.
Provide recommendations regarding production prioritization, inventory recovery, and constraint management.
Maintain a valid time-phased schedule and communicate plan changes to stakeholders.

Cross-Functional Schedule Validation

Lead weekly cross-functional reviews of the Master Schedule with relevant functions.
Validate production assumptions related to planned maintenance, asset availability, trials and qualification activities, inventory recovery plans, material constraints, and labor availability.
Ensure production requirements are actively challenged and reconciled prior to publication of the Master Schedule.
Escalate risks, assumptions, and business impacts whenever demand requirements exceed realistic manufacturing capability.
Drive alignment between production plans and downstream requirements from global receiving sites.

Capacity & Constraint Management

Perform rough-cut capacity planning and identify future capacity gaps.
Evaluate machine, labor, material, and operational constraints.
Identify demand-capacity imbalances and develop mitigation strategies.
Drive supply requirements smoothing and level-loading to improve schedule stability.
Provide decision-ready recommendations to leadership.

OMP Planning Process Ownership

Act as the business owner of the Poromerics Master Scheduling process within OMP.
Review solver outputs and evaluate planning exceptions.
Monitor delayed demand, inventory conflicts, infeasibilities, and planning exceptions.
Maintain planning parameters, rules, and policies within approved governance frameworks.
Support continuous improvement of planning processes and planning-system utilization.
Own business process execution.

Planning Data Validation & Schedule Feasibility

Own validation of planning data and planning assumptions for the Poromerics unit.
Validate planning calendars, production rates, planning parameters, inventory policies, lead times, lot-sizing rules, campaign windows, and capacity assumptions used in the planning process.
Identify schedule-feasibility issues created by inaccurate or outdated manufacturing master data.
Partner with other functions and designated data owners to resolve issues affecting planning accuracy and schedule execution.
Participate in Management of Change reviews to evaluate planning impacts.
Escalate gaps in work centers, production versions, recipes, BOMs, routings, and related manufacturing master data when such gaps impact planning outcomes.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, Business, or related field.
5+ years of experience in production planning, scheduling, manufacturing operations, or supply chain planning.
Deep knowledge and experience using SAP PP and MM (SAP ECC).
Demonstrated ability to identify demand-supply imbalances, quantify business impacts, and facilitate cross-functional alignment and decision making.
Proficiency in Microsoft 365 applications, including Excel, Teams, Power BI and Copilot.
Ability to support a global business requiring periodic collaboration across multiple time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with advanced supply chain planning solutions such as o9, Kinaxis, or OMP is highly preferred.
ASCM CPIM certification preferred, must be obtained once in the role.
Experience with both, discrete and process manufacturing highly preferred.
Experience with high supply variability preferred.

Qnity is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability or any other protected class.

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