Production Scheduler III

Greenheck Group•Tulsa, OK

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Production Scheduler III coordinates the activities of production scheduling team to ensure the manufacturing needs are met in accordance with company direction, sales, and operations. Identify capacity trends, make process improvements to increase efficiencies and accuracy, perform root cause analysis, and adapt as necessary.

Requirements

2 Year / Associate Degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Business Administration, or a related field of study or equivalent years of job experience required.
6-8 years of relevant work experience required.
Mastery in Excel required.
Prior ERP experience required.

Nice To Haves

4 Year / Bachelor Degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Business Administration, or a related field of study preferred.

Responsibilities

Communicate production schedule requirements with operations staff, supply chain, and all applicable business functions.
Identify trends, suggest, and/or initiate systematic capacity adjustments in accordance to strategic initiatives.
Lead and participate in continuous improvement activities.
Maintain capacity templates and adjust capacity/manpower as demand dictates.
Determine capacity for short lead time programmed orders.
Knowledge and ability to extract reports out of business intelligence software.
Interpret and/or organize the data to drive results.
May develop and maintain sales and operations plans with the assistance of the Scheduling Manager
Verify and adjust the schedule in accordance with the availability of critical parts.
Perform root cause analysis to determine if corrective action is required.
Provide support and communication between sales and production facility for schedule changes and cancelations.
Identifies trends in scheduling changes and cancellations and escalates as appropriate.
Communicate late shipments daily to sales and shipping departments.
May create and distribute daily status reports to all necessary business functions.
Establish schedules in accordance with the overall sales and operations plan.
Identify gaps within scheduling SAP processes and support SAP enhancements/improvements.
Recognize and implement changes to daily capacity and opportunities for labor reduction.
Implement changes resulting from engineering or customer requests.
Answer and assist with inquiries from the sales department pertaining to production status of an order.
May supervise production team members and/or schedulers.
Coordinate multiple production schedules to support shipping metrics and customer commitments.
This may include multiple production plants.
Collaborate with materials team to identify the need and set up new parts and materials.
Identify the need to subtract, expand, and re-organize product/material groupings.