Master Scheduler / Planner

What you'll do

• Communicate with customer to receive and understand forecasts
• Input forecast to computer system and analyze the impact of changes
• Prepare input for Sales Forecasting and Production Planning processes
• Establish master production schedule
• Maintain planning data including lot sizes, lead times, and capacity plans
• Cook with Customer Product Specialist for quotes, ECO's and NPI
• Communicate with customer to manage sales order changes
• Provide priorities and resolve issues for stockroom, production, and shipping to meet customer requirements
• Input, allocate, and release manufacturing orders
• Analyze potential shortages to manufacturing orders and work with program team, purchasing, and production to determine action plan
• Conduct weekly scheduling meeting with production and provide feedback to customer
• Monitor daily commitments for completion
• Conduct analysis of potential excess and obsolete inventory and material availability

Requirements

• Ability to develop and communicate plans and schedules
• Ability to make conclusions and judgements about feasibility and impact of plans and requests
• Positive attitude with the ability to work well under deadlines in a dynamic work environment
• Ability to manage and analyze numerical data
• Excellent oral communication skills to present plans, analysis, and conclusions
• Good negotiating skills
• Ability to assimilate large quantities of numeric and verbal data
• Ability to work in a team environment with a wide range of functional areas including production, purchasing, customer service, and material handling

Education and/or Experience

• High School Diploma, GED or Equivalent
• Experience Master Scheduling for an electronics company
• Strong working knowledge of ERP Systems, both at tactical and strategic levels
• Experience manipulating and analyzing data using Excel and other software tools
• High proficiency of MS Office products - Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Word

Preferred Qualifications

• APICS certification
• 2 or 4 year Business degree
• Contract manufacturing experience