Master Scheduler (Berlin)

Summary of Position :

Reporting to the Department Manager, this position is primarily responsible for working in a functional Scheduling and Planning group. Working with a combination of firm orders, customer forecasts, and internal forecasting, the candidate will be able to create a complete schedule plan for manufacturing that will meet the delivery needs of the customer and optimize the capacity and workflow of manufacturing for multiple sites.

Essential Functions :

• Capable of establishing an S&OP program, defining operating procedures, and establishing an S&OP planning team from different parts of an organization.
• Assemble master schedule reporting regarding performance to the business plan, the shipment plan, the inventory plan and the production plan.
• Maintain and communicate production schedules across 3 business sites.
• Communicate changes to production teams affected by schedule changes.
• Understand output of materials requirement planning (MRP), capacity management, and advanced planning system technologies.
• Possess a full understanding of modern planning concepts and practices.
• Be capable of utilizing spreadsheet and ERP-type software in managing the planning process.
• Understand and manage make-to-stock, make-to-order, assemble-to-order, and engineer-to-order manufacturing requirements.
• Calculate production lead times.
• Have knowledge of how to level load a production schedule and handle bottleneck scheduling.
• Effectively analyze whether inventories need to be maintained, increased, or decreased.
• Be capable of scheduling demand based on the product mix.
• Identify parts that would be good candidates for safety stock and use ERP system to manage inventory associated.
• Manage schedule changes through system generated action messages.
• Be capable of translating the production plan into a time-phased build schedule.
• Coordinate information with other functional staff including sales, engineering, accounting and finance as needed.
• Ability to accept change and work well in a high pressure environment.
• Identify opportunities for improvements and drive change in the organization.
• Own the production schedule from order entry to shipment.
• Periodic travel as necessary.

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