Senior Production Scheduler: Drive On-Time Delivery

Nutanix; Jackson (MI); On-site; USD 86,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton is seeking a Senior Production Scheduler in Jackson, MI to optimize production schedules, manage shop floor activity, and coordinate cross-functional teams across procurement, design engineering, and manufacturing. The role focuses on achieving on-time delivery at optimal cost and improving supply chain performance.

Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree and 2+ years in supply chain with 1+ year in production scheduling, and be authorized to work in the United States.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• 2+ years of experience in supply chain.
• 1+ year of experience in a production scheduling role in a manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes material requirements; plans and initiates schedules to support customer production schedule and plans; manages shop floor scheduling.
• Manages work orders to ensure manufacturing has sufficient work at all times, communicates overtime requirements.
• Expedites orders for customers where possible; expedites shortages with buyers; communicates updates to customer service and supply chain program managers.
• Ensures work orders for areas of responsibility are current, not past due, not in pick status for long periods of time.
• Support potential meetings to ensure on-time completion of critical orders, be proactive with communication.
• For area of responsibility: monitors item parameters and settings in MRP system, minimizes past-due sales dollars, quality issues, resolves supplier shortages, customer on-time delivery.
• Liaison between operations and SCMs to ensure supply chain program milestones are met as established by the customer and program management office.
• Create and manage hardware tracking sheets for key programs.
• Lead, facilitate, and/or participate in hardware delivery status meetings with customers.
• Collaborate with Network team on master scheduling process and schedule periodic review meetings encompassing new program items.
• Manage key process metrics for new program hardware builds such as on time to release, on time to cycle, and on time delivery.
• Participate in daily schedule/delivery reviews and own any associated action items.
• Attend daily shop floor Tier 2 meetings with operations/HPWT as point of contact for NPD.
• Attend recurring managed program meetings and act as an extended integrated program team member.
• Support supply chain functions related to product transitions between Jackson and all other Eaton sites.
• Supports plant continuous improvement teams.

Skills

Production scheduling

Capacity planning

MRP

ERP systems

Work order management

Planning

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ERP

MRP

Job description

Eaton is seeking a Senior Production Scheduler in Jackson, MI to optimize production schedules, manage shop floor activity, and coordinate cross-functional teams across procurement, design engineering, and manufacturing. The role focuses on achieving on-time delivery at optimal cost and improving supply chain performance.

Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree and 2+ years in supply chain with 1+ year in production scheduling, and be authorized to work in the United States.