Master Scheduler

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the master production schedule based on customer requirements, available capacity, material availability, and operational priorities.
• Schedule and sequence manufacturing jobs across CNC machining, finishing, assembly, inspection, and outside-processing operations.
• Review open orders, backlog, work-center capacity, material status, tooling requirements, and due dates when establishing production priorities.
• Translate customer demand and delivery commitments into achievable daily, weekly, and monthly production schedules.
• Monitor job progress and update schedules when priorities, capacity, material availability, or customer requirements change.
• Identify scheduling conflicts, capacity limitations, material shortages, and other risks that may affect production or customer delivery.
• Lead or actively participate in daily production and scheduling meetings.
• Communicate schedule changes and priorities clearly to production managers, supervisors, supply chain, quality, engineering, sales, and customer service.
• Cook with Supply Chain to ensure materials, purchased components, and outside services are available when required.
• Work with Production leadership to evaluate labor, machine, tooling, and setup capacity.
• Partner with Quality and Engineering to incorporate inspection, documentation, first-article, and technical requirements into the schedule.
• Maintain accurate scheduling, routing, work-center, lead-time, and production information within the ERP system.
• Maintain jobs that are behind schedule and coordinate recovery plans with the appropriate departments.
• Support decisions regarding overtime, alternate machines, job prioritization, outsourcing, and resource allocation.
• Analyze planned production against actual performance and identify recurring scheduling or workflow problems.
• Develop and report scheduling metrics, including schedule attainment, backlog, work-in-process, capacity utilization, past-due orders, and on-time delivery.
• Support continuous-improvement efforts focused on reducing lead times, improving workflow, limiting disruptions, and increasing schedule reliability.
• Ensure scheduling activities support applicable quality, customer, AS9100, ISO, ITAR, and export-control requirements.

Required Qualifications

• A high school diploma or equivalent.
• Three or more years of production planning, scheduling, supply-chain, or manufacturing operations experience.
• Experience scheduling work in a machining, precision manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, or contract-manufacturing environment.
• Working knowledge of ERP or manufacturing planning systems.
• Strong understanding of production capacity, routings, lead times, material requirements, work centers, and manufacturing constraints.
• Ability to organize and prioritize multiple customer orders and production requirements.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to communicate schedule priorities and changes clearly across multiple departments.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment where priorities may change.

Preferred Qualifications

• An associate or bachelor’s degree in supply-chain management, operations, business, engineering, or a related field.
• Five or more years of production planning or master-scheduling experience.
• Experience working in a CNC machining or aerospace manufacturing environment.
• Experience using E2 Shop System or a comparable manufacturing ERP system.
• Knowledge of lean manufacturing, capacity planning, finite scheduling, MRP, and constraint management.
• APICS/ASCM CPIM or CSCP certification.
• Experience working within an AS9100 or ISO-certified quality management system.