Sr. Production Scheduler
About the role
The Senior Production Scheduler is responsible for materials planning, scheduling, and ordering activities associated with delivering specific customer products. This role involves balancing current and future demand requirements with manufacturing and supplier capabilities/capacities to ensure customer requirements are met. Key responsibilities include initiating required documentation, analyzing data, managing inventory levels, and supporting cost reduction projects.
Responsibilities
- Balance current and future demand requirements with manufacturing and supplier capabilities/capacities to ensure completion of customer requirements.
- Initiate required documentation and/or system transactions to allocate, purchase, internally manufacture or reschedule material as required.
- Expedite material, where required, to meet shortfall between current plan and customer order requirements.
- Analyze data, including enterprise requirements planning information, and prepare reports as needed to facilitate and recommend actions to ensure optimal supply chain execution.
- Maintain planning parameters in order execution systems (such as MFGPro) to ensure proper order generation.
- Identify material cost and schedule impact of proposed engineering changes and take necessary actions to ensure successful implementation and incorporation of approved engineering releases.
- Manage inventory levels in relation to customer requirements to meet profit and inventory targets and goals.
- Support cost reduction projects and improvement initiatives to achieve overall business objectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
- Minimum of three (3) years experience in supply chain.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship, now or in the future.
- Experience in Supply Chain supporting a manufacturing environment.
- APICS CPIM certification.
- Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) experience.
Qualifications
- Strong experience and knowledge of MRP/ERP concepts.
- Possess sound knowledge and experience in successfully deploying purchasing strategies and driving cost-out.
- Ability to analyze, identify, and implement opportunities and corporate initiatives for improvement that have measurable dollar impact annually.
- Strong written and oral communications skills.
- Knowledge of lean manufacturing.
- Knowledge of MS Office applications.
Skills
- Strong experience and knowledge of MRP/ERP concepts.
- Possess sound knowledge and experience in successfully deploying purchasing strategies and driving cost-out.
- Ability to analyze, identify, and implement opportunities and corporate initiatives for improvement that have measurable dollar impact annually.
- Strong written and oral communications skills.
- Knowledge of lean manufacturing.
- Knowledge of MS Office applications.
Benefits
This position is also eligible for a variable incentive program. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations. For details on Eaton’s benefits, please visit: Eaton Benefits Overview.
Pay
The expected annual salary range for this role is $86,000 - $126,000 per year.
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Equal Opportunity Employer
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Disability Accommodation
We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.