Senior Supply Chain Planning & Scheduling Consultant

Implementation Engineers; Georgia; On-site; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Implementation Engineers seeks an experienced Supply Chain Planning & Scheduling Consultant to join our project team for a manufacturing transformation engagement at a Canadian aerospace and defense manufacturing site.

This opportunity is designed for a seasoned consultant who can diagnose, redesign and help implement improvements across material planning, MRP, production planning and shop-floor scheduling, collaborating with client teams to drive measurable stability and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on manufacturing planning and scheduling experience.
• Deep understanding of MRP, master scheduling, multi-level BOMs, dependent demand, production orders and capacity planning.
• Experience in complex discrete manufacturing, ideally aerospace, defense, industrial equipment, automotive, electronics or engineered products.
• Demonstrated ability to redesign and implement planning processes -- not simply recommend improvements.
• Experience working directly with manufacturing planners and shop-floor teams.
• Strong analytical capabilities using ERP data, Excel, Power BI or similar tools.
• Excellent facilitation, communication and executive-presentation skills.
• Ability to challenge legacy practices constructively and build client ownership of the solution.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose current material-planning, MRP and production-scheduling processes.
• Determine whether problems originate in the system, master data, planning processes or execution.
• Evaluate BOM structures, lead times, lot sizes, safety stock, order policies and planning parameters.
• Analyze planned orders, production orders, shortages, exception messages and planner actions.
• Improve production-order planning and release practices.
• Develop practical planning horizons, time fences, frozen periods and scheduling rules.
• Align material availability with production schedules.
• Incorporate realistic work-center capacity and constraints.
• Reduce schedule churn, expediting, shortages and excess WIP.
• Design future-state planning processes, standard work, KPIs and management routines.
• Work directly with planners, schedulers, supervisors, procurement and operations leadership.
• Communicate findings, recommendations and implementation progress to senior client leaders.

Skills

MRP

Master scheduling

Capacity planning

BOMs

Shop-floor collaboration

ERP data analysis

Excel

Power BI

Executive presentation

Facilitation

Tools

Excel

Power BI

ERP systems

Job description

Implementation Engineers seeks an experienced Supply Chain Planning & Scheduling Consultant to join our project team for a manufacturing transformation engagement at a Canadian aerospace and defense manufacturing site.

This opportunity is designed for a seasoned consultant who can diagnose, redesign and help implement improvements across material planning, MRP, production planning and shop-floor scheduling, collaborating with client teams to drive measurable stability and efficiency.