Master Schedule Supervisor - SSBO

Precision Castparts Corp.


Precision Castparts Corp., a worldwide manufacturer of complex metal components and products, serves a wide variety of industrial and aerospace applications.

Tracking Code: 173595-950
Job Location: Portland, OR

To develop and supervise the implementation, coordination and maintenance of a valid and realistic Master Production schedule supporting the Business Operation’s Sales and Operations Plan and to provide feedback to the Operations Staff regarding the plant's ability to execute the plan based on resource requirements.

Responsibilities:

  • MASTER SCHEDULE DEVELOPMENT - typical activities:
  • Maintains fiscal year forecast, product families and planning bill of material and releases the production plan to the master schedule in the data base.
  • Uses a computer based MRP system and other feedback to locate and analyze data, identify trends and make realistic assumptions concerning manufacturing capacity, material availability, lead times and other operating variables.
  • Approve and monitor estimated ship dates for products and communicates to sales, marketing, order entry and the customer.
  • Maintains the Resource Capacity Profiles for the plant used by Rough Cut Capacity Planning and runs the rough cut capacity planning program in the data base.
  • Participates in the development and implementation of the Sales and Operations Plan and the MPS policies and procedures which will contribute to the overall effectiveness of a closed loop MRP system.
  • Manage the forecast consumption process assuring appropriate coordination between Planning and Sales/Marketing.
  • CUSTOMER SERVICE SUPPORT - typical activities:
  • Serves as a focal point for establishing Customer Order ship dates in compliance with the master schedule.
  • Manages abnormal demand to the master schedule, assures availability of materials, manufacturing, and engineering resources.
  • Resolves master schedule and customer requirement conflicts.
  • Supervises the liaison between the customer and PCC regarding schedule commitments and deviations and represents PCC in meetings with the customer both in house and at the customer's site.
  • Assign/maintain customer responsibility among Customer Service Planners.
  • MASTER SCHEDULE MAINTENANCE - typical activities:
  • Continually monitors the sales and operations plan, the master schedule, customer order backlog and the business aberrations delivery performance against the plan to identify changes, trends, short term deviations and/or forecast errors.
  • Maintains MPS time fences and other MPS system defaults in the data base by verifying manufacturing and purchasing lead times with manufacturing, engineering and purchasing.
  • Assures part number load profiles are useable and are a reflection of the part routing based on feedback from the Bill of Material Administrator, manufacturing engineering and manufacturing.
  • Produces regular management reports to communicate changes in the product mix, customer ordering trends, potential capacity problems, planned orders vs. actual orders and plant customer delivery performance to Sales and Operations group.
  • Maintains two way feedback with the capacity management and scheduling group regarding any changes and exceptions.
  • INVENTORY CONTROL - typical activities:
  • Supervises the liaison between planning, vendors, and/or Purchasing in communicating order requirements with respect to quantity and delivery date.
  • Supervises the maintenance of sufficient inventories of dependent demand items to prevent stock out occurrences at the production work centers.
  • Supervises the maintenance of order planning data for dependent demand items to assure appropriate responses to the master schedule while maintaining a minimal inventory investment.
  • DEPARTMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES - typical activities:
  • Directs and/or has responsibility for hiring, timely performance evaluations, salary changes, promotions, disciplinary action and transfers for the master scheduling personnel within established guidelines and company policy.
  • Provides input for the annual departmental budgeting process.
  • Assists in the training and orientation of new department employees, may provide work leadership to other department personnel through the assignment of work, monitoring of progress, review of results, orientation and technical instruction.
  • Responsible for employee development by providing the means for and encouraging advanced professional education.

Requirements:

  • Bachelors degree in a technical and / or business related field preferred OR equivalent experience.
  • Minimum four (4) years related professional experience with at least two (2) of those years in a related planner/scheduler/analyst position. Finite Capacity Modeling/Scheduling manufacturing areas (1-2 years minimum).
  • Advanced skills in Excel including creating user friendly data reports with macro's, pivot tables, lookups, logic formulas, and graphs.
  • Excellent skills and aptitudes in data analysis and critical path method for creating schedules.
  • Lean manufacturing, TOC, and constraint scheduling.
  • Technical aptitude with good communication and problem solving skills.
  • At least four (4) years demonstrated successful managerial experience.
  • Highly self motivated and able to work independently.
  • Demonstrated good organizational skills.
  • APICS certification required.

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