Master Production Scheduler

Emerson•Elyria, OH

9d•Onsite

About The Position

The Master Scheduler is responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing the master production schedule to ensure customer demand, inventory targets, and operational capacity requirements are met. This role serves as a critical link between Supply Chain, Procurement, and Operations to balance supply and demand while driving inventory optimization and service level performance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree and 5+ years of Supply Chain Planning, Production Planning, Master Scheduling or related experience.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret data and make recommendations.
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, complex formulas, and data analysis and modeling.
Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Comfortable with ambiguity and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Legal authorization to work in the United States - sponsorship will not be provided for this role.

Nice To Haves

Experience with inventory optimization, capacity planning and S&OP.
Applied experience planning using ERP systems (JDE, Oracle, SAP).
Experience with BI and reporting tools such as Domo, Power BI, Tableau or similar systems.
Experience collaborating in a plant environment.

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain and manage the Master Production schedule (MPS) to support business objectives and sales requirements.
Collaborates with plant leadership, engineering, production planning, sourcing and others to develop capacity plans to ensure MPS can be executed. Identifies additional capacity needed, helps drive make/buy decisions, or overtime needs as necessary.
Monitor Schedule adherence and identify risks to the plan, constraints and capacity issues. Works with the appropriate production owner or vendor to drive remedial action.
Perform scenario analysis and provide recommendations to address supply shortages, excess inventory and make/buy decisions.
Track and report key performance metrics including schedule attainment, excess and obsolete inventory and other Supply Chain performance metrics.
Support the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes through planning analysis and reporting.