Strategic Master Scheduler & MRP Planner

mercurysystemscareers; Arizona; On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury Systems is seeking a Master Scheduler to align production plans with demand, materials, capacity and policy constraints across the organization. This role drives the SIOP process, creates executable master schedules, and collaborates with Procurement, Engineering, and Operations to resolve supply issues.

The ideal candidate has deep ERP/MRP experience, strong analytical skills, and a proven ability to manage complex schedules, lead cross-functional teams, and maintain data integrity in

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business or equivalent and 7+ years' experience in Production Planning and Inventory Control within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience in ERP/MRP systems.
• Experience maintaining MRP data integrity, including planning parameters, lead times, and inventory controls.
• Team Player: Collaborates with key stakeholders, gains commitment to meet timelines and influences others without direct authority.
• Driver and Goal Oriented: With limited guidance, identifies tasks needed to support desired outcomes, and challenges potential delays to drive necessary actions for results.
• Organized: Demonstrated ability to stay organized with multiple responsibilities and deadlines. Good decision making and problem-solving skills. Detail-oriented. Time management and workload prioritization capabilities are key.

Responsibilities

• Develops a working knowledge of the company's products and process to ensure optimal master schedule stability and load leveling.
• Creates a master schedule that satisfies customer demand with optimum inventory levels and resource utilization. Ensures that the master schedule can be used for detailed material and capacity planning.
• Responsible to hand over an executable master schedule plan to production planners for execution.
• Analyzes the demand and supply balance at the product family and master schedule levels, determining out-of-balance conditions, identifying alternatives and recommending corrective action.
• Anticipate supply problems and implement resolution in collaboration with business functions such as Procurement, Product Management, Operations Program Management, Engineering, Finance and Operations.
• Chairs periodic master scheduling meeting for the purpose of identifying, negotiating and resolving conflicts with respect to material and capacity availability and order promising.
• Seeks ways to reduce internal lead times as well as lead times to customers through performance improvement projects.
• Works with planning team and operations team to identify critical "bottleneck" operations or resources and determine the capacities for each resource.
• Acts as single point of contact with the demand control team to determine future work plan based upon demand forecast, order trends and abnormal demands.
• Develops and maintains the rules of engagement for demand control, including master scheduling policy. Assists in developing and implementing improvements to production scheduling functions.
• Assess risks and gaps within the schedule and communicate appropriately the risks within the organization.
• Co-ordinate the aggregation of planned production via planning bills and link it to the overall supply plan and SIOP process, highlighting differences in volume and costs versus the agreed SIOP plans.
• Creates and maintains the critical resource file and load profiles for each resource in the rough-cut capacity planning system of ERP.
• Summarizes daily and weekly master schedules for released and firm planned orders and compares these to the production plan to ensure consistency.
• Respond in a timely manner to action messages generated by the master scheduling software.
• Assuring that no master scheduled item will have a release or firm planned order date that is not executable
• Responsible for the inventory levels for each product line under their control.
• Creation of a financial summary of over planned and or safety sock inventories to ensure that they are within budget.
• Authorizes all planning strategies and options over planned items and determines the quantity for each.
• Maintains scheduling parameters such as, manufacturing calendar, lot sizes, safety stocks, delivery times, and order file data for all master scheduled items.
• Lead the S&IOP process

Skills

Master scheduling

Forecast coordination

Cross-functional

Problem solving

Time management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business or equivalent

Tools

Kinaxis

Rapid Response

Oracle ERP

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Mercury Systems is seeking a Master Scheduler to align production plans with demand, materials, capacity and policy constraints across the organization. This role drives the SIOP process, creates executable master schedules, and collaborates with Procurement, Engineering, and Operations to resolve supply issues.

The ideal candidate has deep ERP/MRP experience, strong analytical skills, and a proven ability to manage complex schedules, lead cross-functional teams, and maintain data integrity in