Master Scheduler Lead (Ciudad Apodaca)

What you will do

• Serves as a primary point of contact for and liaison with sales, logistics, and manufacturing departments.
• Collaborates with these departments to establish schedules and plans that allocate available resources to best serve client or customer needs.
• Periodically compares current and anticipated orders with available inventory of raw materials; uses judgment to anticipate demand for and to acquire additional supplies as needed.
• Integrates sales orders with master schedule; coordinates availability of raw materials, supplies, equipment, and staff as needed to meet delivery dates.
• Maintains master distribution schedule for the assigned facility; revises as needed and alerts appropriate staff of schedule changes or delays.
• Participates in periodic forecasting meetings with sales, marketing, and other related departments; leads additional planning meetings with sales, production, shipping, purchasing, and customer service staff.
• Performs other related duties, as required.

How you will do it

• Create the assembly line specific build schedules over the near-term horizon (0-12 weeks).
• Align with Sales & Demand planning on the sales & deliverable build requirements that drive the plan.
• Align with the Manufacturing Engineers assigned to each shop to understand shop constraints and incorporate these into the scheduling algorithm.
• Support the Supply Chain Planning to include supply constraints (capacity / mix limitations, logistics issues) and, similarly, incorporate these into the scheduling algorithm.
• Build the plan using Theory of Constraints & Optimization techniques to ensure that the following objectives are achieved: build mix is achieved each week, plan is structured so shops can run as efficiently as possible and critical supply chain constraints are accounted for (supplier capability issues & logistics costs, i.e. expediting) so that the lowest cost build plan is achieved.
• Lead the cross-functional change management process when issues occur inside the frozen window (1 week).
• Build the model and run the analysis to identify the most effective solution for the plant (minimizes costs / maximizes revenue opportunity) given the issue (such as): urgent sales change requests (demand re-balancing, delivery schedule changes); Production (equipment breakdown) or supply chain (material shortage) issues.
• Coordinate the introduction of NPI into the production system.
• Attend program launch meetings to understand impacts of new variants to the production and ensure that the launch timing solves given other factory priorities.
• Participate in the daily plant operational review to understand and maintain the health of material flow through the plant.
• Own reporting on plant status & performance (weekly, monthly & quarterly) out to production management & key partners / stakeholders in the organization.
• Pull data from the ERP & the production management systems to understand status.
• Use data visualization tools such as Tableau and PowerBI to generate the status reports.
• Support operational report out to the weekly Sales & Operational Execution (S&OE;) meeting.
• Define the business requirements & generate the use cases to drive software development.

What we look for

Required

• A bachelor's degree or higher in Industrial Engineer, business administration, computer science, or a certification in operator or vendor management, such as the APICS Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) or the APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) required.
• 3-5 years related experience in materials management, production planning, or material scheduling in a manufacturing company is required.
• Strong analytical capabilities - including data analysis to optimize plans relative to different constraint factors (equipment capacity, staffing plans, material availability) is required.
• Travel: 5%-10%.

Preferred

• Proficiency in SAP.
• Proficiency in analytical and reporting tools (MS Excel, Tableau) is strongly desired.
• Has demonstrated high level performance in current and previous positions.
• Has shown initiative, the desire to drive change and is motivated to exceed expectations.
• Has a solid grasp of manufacturing principles, including Process, Information, and Material flow.
• A strong interest in process and quality improvement and the ability to provide leadership.
• Ability to communicate effectively.