Shop Floor Scheduler
Date: Mar 15, 2023
Location: Bristol, GB
Company: GKN Aerospace Careers
Every day, around the world, we help aircraft fly further, faster and greener. We’re the world’s leading tier one aerospace supplier of systems and components. With over 15,000 employees across 38 manufacturing sites in 12 countries serving over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers with sales of £2.8bn. Together as “One GKN” we’re moving our business and industry forward developing technologies that rapidly decarbonise aircraft, and innovating to help build a new generation of planes that produce zero emissions. We’re putting sustainability at the heart of what we do; driving our objective to becoming a net zero greenhouse gas emissions business before 2050!
Making a Difference
It’s great to know you’re making a difference to the future of aviation! Whatever part you play you’ll be helping us deliver operational excellence to our customers.
The Opportunity
Based at our Filton site where we design and manufacture large complex structural wing assemblies, detailed metallic components and wing systems for a combination of both civil and military aircraft, our new Shop Floor Scheduler (Production Scheduler) will manage scheduling activities in the production area. You will manage visual systems to communicate / monitor the sequence of production orders, ensuring the availability of resources such as tooling and raw materials. You will ensure we create and maintain the optimal production sequence. Help us really make things fly!
How You'll Contribute
In this role, you will:
- Sequence work orders in line with latest demand requirements and aligned to MPS for specified products and production lines understanding all the physical and manning constraints of these lines.
- Monitor manufacturing output/performance daily against the schedule, challenging and understanding whenever performance differs from standard.
- Monitor Stock cover daily in order to avoid Stock outs as well as overstocks by adjusting the execution sequence if possible or raising the issue with the Master Scheduler.
- Maximize shared manufacturing resource output/utilization while ensuring full coherence with MPS product mix, volumes and required availability dates,
- Ensure that sequenced plan:
- Is feasible and balanced,
- Includes all scheduled downtime (Holiday, routine maintenance, Line closures, etc.),
- Is supportable with available packaging, tooling, fixtures, people
- Monitor availability of raw material / components and escalate as required to Procurement / Master Scheduler.
- Proactively communicate/escalate to the Master Scheduler / Area management potential production execution issues/constraints to trigger preventive actions against potential supply failure.
- Weekly track, challenge and report Schedule Adherence with reasons for deviation to Production Area Management and Master Scheduler.
- Responsible for the process and related scheduling activities on site
What You'll Bring
To help us make a difference, you’ll bring your passion and expertise/ talent for what you do along with the following skills, experience, qualifications and attributes:
Essential:
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications – high level of competence within Windows 10 specifically Excel & Powerpoint
Desirable:
- Experience in a scheduling role within a manufacturing environment including specifically Daily Scheduling & Execution.
- Working knowledge of Forecasting & Demand Planning, SIOP / MPS / MRP, Master Data Management, Inventory Management, Internal Flow & Warehousing
What We'll Provide
Once you’re on board you’ll get the following perks and benefits:
- Salary of £25,000 - £30,000 DOE
- Industry Leading Pension Scheme = we’ll match your contributions up to 8% on a 1 : 1.5 basis
- Life Assurance 8 x salary
- 25 days' holiday + bank holidays
- Income protection
- Shopping discounts
- Cycle To Work Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- A collaborative, dynamic working environment
As well as a competitive package we’ll offer you a world of opportunity. We want to see your career fly! We’ll support your career progression by providing you with learning and development opportunities. That’s the beauty of being part of a global business, once you’re on board you never know where you career journey may take you!
A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working
Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’ last year. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.
We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.
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