Description
Ascentec Engineering is hiring a Planner Scheduler II for our Tualatin headquarters! This advanced scheduling role will be responsible for managing complex production schedules, resolving scheduling conflicts, analyzing capacity constraints, and supporting cross-area and/or cross-site schedule alignment.
This position is onsite (not remote/not hybrid) and is not eligible for Visa sponsorship or transfer of Visa sponsorship. Periodic travel to our Dallas, Oregon facility.
Requirements
Advanced Schedule Management:
- Manage complex daily, weekly, and mid-range production schedules for assigned areas
- Balance due dates, capacity, material availability, operational constraints, quality, and customer priorities
- Recommend sequencing tradeoffs and recovery actions when demand exceeds capacity or disruptions occur
- Maintain schedule stability while enabling controlled priority-driven changes
Capacity and Constraint Analysis:
- Analyze work center capacity, resource loading, utilization, and constraint areas using Planet Together APS, Epicor Kinetic, and supporting reports
- Validate schedule feasibility against machine, labor, shift, and operational constraints
- Partner with production leadership to confirm actual capacity and execution assumptions
- Recommend and escalate corrective actions with clear customer and output impact
Schedule System Governance and Data Integrity:
- Ensure schedule data integrity in Planet Together APS and Epicor Kinetic for assigned areas
- Review job dates, priorities, operation dates, resource assignments, scheduling attributes, and dispatch logic for accuracy
- Identify system data issues that create inaccurate schedule output and coordinate corrections
- Support schedule data audits, standard work, and system configuration improvements
- Help train others on scheduling process, system usage, and schedule update standards
Risk Management and Recovery Planning:
- Identify schedule risks related to material shortages, quality holds, engineering changes, equipment downtime, labor availability, or customer priority shifts
- Develop and communicate recovery plans for late or at-risk jobs
- Coordinate with planning, purchasing, production, quality, engineering, and customer-facing teams to remove blockers
- Lead or support schedule conflict resolution meetings for assigned areas
- Escalate unresolved risks with recommended decision options
Cross-Functional Leadership:
- Serve as a senior scheduling point of contact for assigned product lines, customers, or manufacturing areas
- Support daily and weekly production alignment meetings with schedule status, risks, and recovery actions
- Partner with Master Scheduler on schedule strategy, capacity analysis, and priority alignment
- Mentor Scheduler I and planning roles on scheduling logic, system usage, and escalation discipline
- Support customer expedite and delivery risk discussions by providing credible schedule analysis
Reporting and Continuous Improvement:
- Develop or maintain schedule performance reporting including schedule adherence, past-due backlog, capacity loading, and at-risk jobs
- Identify recurring causes of schedule disruption and recommend corrective actions
- Support improvements to Planet Together APS, Epicor Kinetic, dispatch reporting, and schedule governance
- Document scheduling standards and help reduce tribal knowledge dependency
- Demonstrate readiness for Master Scheduler by managing schedule strategy, cross-functional tradeoffs, and broader capacity decisions
Qualifications & Experience:
Required:
- 5 or more years of production scheduling, planning, production control, or manufacturing operations experience
- Strong understanding of finite scheduling, MRP/MPS logic, capacity planning, production flow, and schedule tradeoffs
- Experience working with ERP and scheduling systems to manage jobs, priorities, resources, and production dates
- Ability to analyze capacity constraints and recommend schedule recovery actions
- Strong communication skills with production, leadership, and cross-functional teams
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, production reporting, and schedule analysis
Preferred:
- Experience with Epicor Kinetic
- Experience with Planet Together APS or equivalent advanced planning and scheduling software
- Experience in aerospace, semiconductor, precision machining, or contract manufacturing
- Experience in high-mix, low-to-mid-volume production environments
- Experience supporting cross-site scheduling or complex customer demand changes
- APICS/ASCM certification or coursework
Competencies:
- Advanced systems thinking and schedule judgment
- Analytical and detail-oriented with strong decision support skills
- Strong communicator across shop floor, management, and leadership audiences
- Proactive risk manager and problem solver
- Comfortable operating in high-change manufacturing environments
- Capable mentor for junior planning and scheduling roles
Compensation/Benefits:
- $80,000 to $95,000 DOE
- Medical / Dental / Vision
- 401k with company match up to 4%
- Tiered Quarterly Bonus Program
- Short-term and Long-term Disability
- Tuition Assistance or Reimbursement
- Life Insurance
- Paid time off / paid holidays
- Employee Assistance Programs
Applicant must be able to pass a drug screen and criminal background check prior to employment.
ITAR REQUIREMENTS: To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
Ascentec Engineering is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Ascentec Engineering is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
