Job Title: Manufacturing Production Scheduler
Type of Engagement: 6-month contract (Not open to 3rd party C2C consultants. Visa sponsorship is not available)
Work Location: Newark, DE
Job Overview:
Accountable for day-to-day activities required to create and maintain detailed production/supply schedules based on the master scheduling input or established pull signals. Point person between the supply organization and plant to clearly define / understand short term production issues and supply needs between the organizations. Utilizes detailed capacity plans, and interfaces with area managers and supervisors and/or production teams.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
• Issue detailed schedule for each asset based on a final time-phased production plan.
• Manage daily production schedules during planning horizon.
• Manage production details in line with business strategy (cost, rate, inventory and uptime).
• Assure schedule is continually maintained and communicated throughout the supply chain.
• Highlight and actively participate in the identification and resolution of inventory, customer order issues, and quality issues as they develop. Work closely with Master scheduler and order planning personnel.
• Communicate production issues, supply changes, deviations from plan and potential resolutions to appropriate parties.
• Coordinate secondary processing of finished product (e.g., rework and repackaging).
• Manage performance standards and analysis methods to compare actual production performance against the established standards.
• Monitoring process orders & assuring closed as needed, accurate process orders are used to maintain system & data integrity.
• Primary interface between manufacturing and supply chain.
• Works with manufacturing to optimize the plant schedule along with manufacturing capabilities.
• Co-ordinates the production planning with maintenance planning and scheduling needs.
• Validate material availability against asset schedule.
Required Skills & Experience:
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain or Engineering preferred, OR
• 2- 3 Year equivalent SC or manufacturing plant experience with proven capability (Material Planner, First Line Supervisor, Product Planner/Coordinator, administrative, customer service representative)