Production Control Scheduler – F9 Structures

Production Control Scheduler – F9 Structures

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 1+ years of manufacturing scheduling, planning or operations experience OR 3+ years of manufacturing scheduling, planning or operations experience

Responsibilities

• Take complete ownership of production scheduling for a given production work center, including managing both tactical day-to-day tasks as well as projecting long-term high-level rate needs for the department
• Coordinate and review input from engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, and business development to support and maintain Master Schedules for products using Microsoft Office or applicable software as required
• Work across all departments to understand critical work requests ahead and behind targets to mitigate schedule impact risks
• Work across all departments to ensure MRP dates align with current vehicle products
• Utilize our Factory Scheduler application and other applicable tools to ensure work is scheduled and prioritized accurately and efficiently, and resources allocated appropriately
• Prepare daily work schedules, track work progress, update and communicate project critical path schedules, and advise leadership of needed adjustments to daily work activities
• Ensure fixture, tooling, and test equipment requirements are properly scheduled to facilitate an efficient production process
• Support accuracy of internal logistics movement of critical work
• Push/pull work into the shop to improve lead times, reduce stagnation, and meet schedule needs
• Use established schedule to create and generate stakeholder buy-in on various scenarios to determine optimal hardware allocation between new/refurb hardware that take into account customer needs, current mission manifest, and customer quality requirements
• Build strong relationships with customers as well as internal/external suppliers and establish high-accuracy means of communication for both estimated hardware needs and completion dates

Preferred Qualifications

• Remarkable problem-solving skills with a bias for speed and accuracy
• Self-motivated, quick learner, and ability to prioritize efforts to meet customer and company goals
• Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and external supplier/customer relationships in a fast-moving and ever-changing environment
• Technical knowledge and skills in coding and computer applications (e.g. MS Office Suite, VBA, Smartsheet, SQL, Confluence, JIRA, Power BI, etc.)
• Strong track record of implementing continuous improvement efforts, ideally using problem solving frameworks including lean principles, six sigma, or Kaizen concepts
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams working on strategic problems
• Project management professional certification