Shop Floor Scheduler

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Date: May 28, 2026

Location: Chihuahua, MX

Company: GKN Aerospace Careers

Job Summary

Manages Shop Floor Scheduling activities in the Production Area. It includes the management of visual systems to communicate / monitor the sequence of production orders, ensuring the availability of resources (tooling, raw material, etc.), create and maintain the optimal production sequence.

Job Responsibilities

  • Monitor monthly and yearly S&OP (Sales and Operations) for the designed customers.

  • Maximize production / utilization of shared manufacturing resources while ensuring full consistency with the mix of MPS products, volumes, and required availability dates.
  • Track manufacturing performance / daily performance against schedule, challenging and understanding whenever performance deviates from standard.
  • Monitor stock coverage daily to avoid out-of-stock and overstock by adjusting the run sequence if possible or by raising the issue with the Master Scheduler.
  • Sequence work orders according to high MPS demand requirements for specific products and production lines, understanding all the physical and personnel limitations of these lines.
  • Create and implement integrated systems and tools for carrying out production processes, such as inventory control, cost analysis; logistics, material flow, and production coordination.

Job Qualifications

  • Education: Bachelor in Engineering or Administration. 
  • English: Fluent.
  • Experience: 
  • At least 3 year experience in similar position.
  • Understand  ERP / MRP environment with productive and nonproductive parts.
  • Strong skills in shortages and impact analysis.
  • Monitoring inventory levels (Obsolete, high runners, tendencies).
  • Material transactions, level loading, BOM.
  • Excel level Medium/High for quick decision making, reports and front-end pages for production users.  Power BI and Power Query (desirable).
  • Skills: Strong interpersonal skills, effective communication, Leader & soft skills for team management, self-motivated, problems solving, teamwork, sense of urgency, results oriented, continuous improvement, capable of working independently.
  • Requirement: Schedule flexibility, availability to travel. Visa and Passport (desirable).