Production Scheduler

Safran Group•Grand Prairie, TX

32d

About The Position

Summary of Job Purpose: The Production Scheduler will be responsible for creating and maintaining the manufacturing schedule to ensure timely and efficient production to meet the demand of the customers. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to track progress, mitigate risks, and drive schedule compliance aligned with contract and program requirements. • Contribute to process improvement initiatives to enhance scheduling accuracy and efficiency. • Ensure compliance with company scheduling procedures to set and maintain baseline schedules • Prepare schedule narratives describing the status of assigned projects with weekly deliverables • Work closely with all departments to ensure best reactivity to situations such as QA rejections, Quote approval, part shortages, engineering stoppage, etc. • Ensure consistent and effective production planning and inventory control with particular emphasis on improving material productivity, manufacturing productivity, and inventory management • Participate in continuous monitoring of internal controls where necessary and ensure compliance. • Prepares required reports for external customers, internal customers and others in order to comply with contract reporting requirements • Develops and implements short and long-term procurement strategies • Outline objectives & milestones for weekly production target • Identify roadblocks and mitigation strategies to meet deliverables • Travel may be required - 5%, including international.

Requirements

5 years experience with Bachelors in related field or a High School Diploma or equivalent and 5 years relevant experience.
AS9100 experience and ERP (SAP knowledge is a plus).
Knowledge of professional practices, sources of information, and rules and regulations that must be interpreted, adapted and applied to the unique requirements of the organization and process
Must have experience and knowledge with Microsoft office.
Excellent organizational skills and strong attention to detail.
Strong understanding of production workflows and scheduling best practices.

Nice To Haves

SAP knowledge is a plus

Responsibilities

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to track progress, mitigate risks, and drive schedule compliance aligned with contract and program requirements.
Contribute to process improvement initiatives to enhance scheduling accuracy and efficiency.
Ensure compliance with company scheduling procedures to set and maintain baseline schedules
Prepare schedule narratives describing the status of assigned projects with weekly deliverables
Work closely with all departments to ensure best reactivity to situations such as QA rejections, Quote approval, part shortages, engineering stoppage, etc.
Ensure consistent and effective production planning and inventory control with particular emphasis on improving material productivity, manufacturing productivity, and inventory management
Participate in continuous monitoring of internal controls where necessary and ensure compliance.
Prepares required reports for external customers, internal customers and others in order to comply with contract reporting requirements
Develops and implements short and long-term procurement strategies
Outline objectives & milestones for weekly production target
Identify roadblocks and mitigation strategies to meet deliverables