Master Scheduler - Poromerics

Qnity; Newark (DE); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Qnity is seeking a Master Production Scheduler in Newark, Delaware to develop and maintain a single integrated Master Production Schedule for the Poromerics unit. You will coordinate between commercial, operations, and supply chain to ensure customer demand and inventory targets are reflected in the master plan.

You will translate the Balanced Plan into a feasible weekly production plan, validate planning data, and drive cross-functional alignment across time zones to optimize schedule stability

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 SAP MM (ECC).
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 apps including Excel, Teams, Power BI and Copilot.
• Ability to collaborate across multiple time zones.

Responsibilities

• Develop 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 inventories.
• Balance demand, inventory policies, constraints, and capacity.
• Ensure scheduling is executable and stable, coordinating with maintenance and trials.
• Lead weekly cross-functional reviews of the Master Schedule.
• Validate production assumptions related to maintenance, assets, and inventory.
• Escalate risks and align with global supply chain requirements.

Skills

Scheduling

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Communication

Education

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

Tools

SAP PP

SAP MM

Excel

Power BI

Copilot

Microsoft Teams

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.

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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.

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