Master Scheduler

About the role

The Master Scheduler role is an important part of Coilmaster's commitment to ensuring production schedules, material availability, customer priorities, and operational goals stay aligned in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain the master production schedule to support customer delivery requirements and production goals.
• Balance demand, capacity, labor, equipment, and material availability to optimize production flow.
• Monitor daily order status and communicate scheduling risks, delays, constraints, or material shortages.
• Partner with Sales, Engineering, Purchasing, Production, Finance, and Operations to support longer-term planning needs.
• Adjust schedules as priorities shift based on customer needs, production capacity, and material availability.
• Support visual scheduling processes on the production floor.
• Ensure work orders, ERP planning parameters, BOM structures, routings, and inventory data are accurate and maintained.
• Track inventory levels and identify shortages or excess inventory that may impact the production schedule.
• Manage level loading and bottleneck scheduling to improve efficiency and schedule attainment.
• Support Lean manufacturing, 5S, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Aid with process improvements as the business transitions to Microsoft Dynamics 365.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of production planning or scheduling experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience in job-based, custom, or engineered-to-order manufacturing preferred.
• Strong ERP/MRP system experience required; Microsoft Dynamics 365 experience preferred.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including data analysis and reporting.
• Intermediate Microsoft Access skills preferred.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing systems, capacity planning, inventory control, BOM structures, routings, and material planning processes.
• Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a high-pressure, deadline-driven environment.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work cross-functionally.
• Ability to communicate professionally with internal stakeholders and high-value customers.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations Management, or a related field preferred.

Qualifications

• The ideal candidate will be highly organized, analytical, collaborative, and comfortable working through ambiguity.
• Enjoy solving scheduling challenges and be able to quickly reprioritize based on production needs, customer impact, material availability, and business urgency.
• Strong attention to detail, sound judgment, follow-through, and the ability to remain calm and focused in a fast-paced manufacturing environment with multiple moving pieces.

Skills

• Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work cross-functionally.
• Ability to communicate professionally with internal stakeholders and high-value customers.

Benefits

• Visibility and partnership across Sales, Engineering, Operations, Purchasing, Finance, and Production.
• The chance to help improve scheduling processes during an ERP transition to Microsoft Dynamics 365.
• A role where strong planning, problem-solving, and communication skills can make an immediate impact.

Pay

Competitive compensation package, including base salary and performance bonuses.

Schedule

Full-time position with flexible hours to accommodate the needs of the manufacturing environment.