Shop Floor Scheduler

GKN•Garden Grove, CA

11d•Onsite

About The Position

Translate the Master Production Schedule into a feasible, sequenced, and controlled shop-floor execution plan for assigned value streams, products, and production lines. Balance customer need dates, production priorities, capacity, labor, materials, tooling, fixtures, maintenance, quality constraints, and work-in-process to protect product safety, configuration integrity, on-time delivery, and efficient resource utilization. Provide timely, fact-based visibility of schedule risk and coordinate recovery actions across operations, planning, procurement, quality, engineering, maintenance, logistics, and program teams.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED equivalent.
Five or more years of production planning, shop-floor scheduling, material planning, production control, or related manufacturing experience.
Demonstrated experience sequencing work against capacity, material, labor, tooling, equipment, and delivery constraints.
Working proficiency with Microsoft Excel and enterprise planning or manufacturing systems used for MPS, MRP, work-order, inventory, and production-status control.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, written communication, and cross-functional coordination skills.
Ability to work on-site in an active manufacturing environment and respond to changing priorities with accuracy and discipline.
Must satisfy all position-specific employment eligibility, export-control, site-access, and security requirements applicable to the work performed, including ITAR/EAR or program requirements.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
Experience scheduling aerospace or defense manufacturing, aircraft transparencies, special processes, controlled production, or other high-mix regulated operations.
Experience with SIOP, MPS, MRP, capacity planning, master data, inventory management, internal logistics, and warehouse interfaces.
Knowledge of aerospace quality-system expectations, including configuration control, product safety, traceability, nonconformance controls, and on-time delivery.
Experience working in a matrix organization with Operations, Programs, Quality, Engineering, Procurement, Maintenance, and Finance.
Lean, APICS/ASCM, CPIM, CSCP, or related training or certification.
Advanced Excel, ERP/MRP, dashboard, or data-visualization capability.

Responsibilities

Sequence and release work orders in line with the approved MPS, customer need dates, program priorities, and the physical and staffing constraints of assigned production lines.
Maintain a rolling, time-phased shop-floor schedule that is feasible, balanced, visually communicated, and understood by Team Leaders and value-stream stakeholders.
Incorporate known downtime, holidays, preventive maintenance, line closures, calibration, qualification, inspection, tooling, fixture, packaging, staffing, and material constraints into shop floor schedule.
Coordinate changes in sequence or priority through established planning and change-control processes; communicate the operational and customer impact of changes.
Confirm that scheduled work is supportable by available raw material, components, tooling, fixtures, equipment, approved process capability, trained labor, documentation, and quality resources.
Maximize use of shared and constraint resources while maintaining coherence with MPS product mix, required availability dates, batch rules, changeovers, and controlled-process requirements.
Identify capacity overloads, bottlenecks, shortages, competing priorities, or readiness gaps and develop data-supported scenarios for escalation and decision.
Coordinate with Procurement, Material Control, Engineering, Quality, Maintenance, and Operations to address conditions that could create supply failure or customer disruption.
Monitor actual manufacturing output and performance against the schedule each day; investigate deviations from standard and update the execution plan using approved priorities.
Track schedule adherence, past-due operations, WIP aging, queue time, yield/rework impact, downtime, run dates, batch quantities, and changeover performance.
Lead or support recovery planning for missed milestones, material shortages, quality holds, equipment downtime, resource conflicts, rework loops, and urgent customer requirements.
Provide daily and weekly reporting that distinguishes symptoms from verified causes and assigns clear actions, owners, and escalation dates.
Monitor stock cover and material availability to prevent shortages while avoiding unnecessary overproduction, excess WIP, aging inventory, or premature starts.
Adjust sequencing within approved authority when conditions change; escalate decisions that could affect the MPS, customer commitments, inventory policy, contractual priorities, or financial performance.
Coordinate rework, inspection, hold, and release queues so nonconforming or awaiting-disposition material is not inadvertently scheduled as available production.
Maintain visual controls and aging reviews that make blocked, at-risk, or excess work visible to responsible owners.
Protect product safety, approved configuration, traceability, serialization or lot control, special-process sequencing, inspection points, and customer-specific requirements when building or changing the schedule.
Ensure scheduling actions do not bypass required quality gates, first-article or production-readiness requirements, training, authorization, controlled documentation, or formal release status.
Handle program, customer, technical, and production information in accordance with applicable export-control, security, access, and information-handling requirements.
Support audit readiness by maintaining accurate planning records, rationale for priority changes, schedule status, and evidence of timely escalation and closure.
Maintain accurate actual run dates, quantities, changeover data, order status, constraints, and planning master data in applicable systems.
Use Excel, ERP/MRP, visual management, and analytical tools to identify schedule risk, constraint performance, and recurring causes of non-adherence.
Apply root-cause analysis and Lean methods to improve scheduling stability, flow, launch discipline, WIP control, and cross-functional response.
Standardize recurring planning work through documented routines, review cadence, definitions, and clear handoffs across shifts and functions.