• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• 5 years Production Scheduling experience, including ERP/MRP.
• Manufacturing experience required, high volume manufacturing preferred
• Must have experience working with customers
• Tier 1 automotive, machining experience preferred
• APICS Certification preferred
• Advanced Excel skills
• Must have strong initiative, be a self-starter, adaptable, able to thrive in a fast-paced culture

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• 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 as well as financial planning.
• 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.
• Anticipates supply problems and implement resolution working jointly with the plant and the demand control teams.
• Provides alternatives and costs to production schedules based on change in demand as well as seek approvals. Manage costs in autonomy within the agreed budget.
• Seeks ways to reduce internal lead times as well as lead times to customers through performance improvement projects working directly with the plant and with the sales teams.
• Maintains scheduling parameters such as, manufacturing calendar, lot sizes, safety stocks, delivery times, and order file data for all master scheduled items.
• Develops and maintains shipment and revenue forecasts.
• Confers with Production staff to resolve problems affecting production schedules.
• Generates clear and easy to understand charts, graphs, and matrixes to convey information to Manufacturing staff.

Master Production Scheduler – Careers At Tekfor Inc (hrmdirect.com)