Shop Floor Scheduler

Job Summary

Translate the Master Production Schedule into a feasible, sequenced, and controlled shop-floor execution plan for assigned value streams, products, and production lines.

Balance customer need dates, production priorities, capacity, labor, materials, tooling, fixtures, maintenance, quality constraints, and work-in-process to protect product safety, configuration integrity, on-time delivery, and efficient resource utilization.

Provide timely, fact-based visibility of schedule risk and coordinate recovery actions across operations, planning, procurement, quality, engineering, maintenance, logistics, and program teams.

Job Responsibilities

1. Production Sequencing and MPS Execution

• Sequence and release work orders in line with the approved MPS, customer need dates, program priorities, and the physical and staffing constraints of assigned production lines.
• Maintain a rolling, time-phased shop-floor schedule that is feasible, balanced, visually communicated, and understood by Team Leaders and value-stream stakeholders.
• Incorporate known downtime, holidays, preventive maintenance, line closures, calibration, qualification, inspection, tooling, fixture, packaging, staffing, and material constraints into shop floor schedule.
• Coordinate changes in sequence or priority through established planning and change-control processes; communicate the operational and customer impact of changes.

2. Constraint, Capacity and Readiness Management

• Confirm that scheduled work is supportable by available raw material, components, tooling, fixtures, equipment, approved process capability, trained labor, documentation, and quality resources.
• Maximize use of shared and constraint resources while maintaining coherence with MPS product mix, required availability dates, batch rules, changeovers, and controlled-process requirements.
• Identify capacity overloads, bottlenecks, shortages, competing priorities, or readiness gaps and develop data-supported scenarios for escalation and decision.
• Coordinate with Procurement, Material Control, Engineering, Quality, Maintenance, and Operations to address conditions that could create supply failure or customer disruption.

3. Daily Performance Control and Recovery

• Monitor actual manufacturing output and performance against the schedule each day; investigate deviations from standard and update the execution plan using approved priorities.
• Track schedule adherence, past-due operations, WIP aging, queue time, yield/rework impact, downtime, run dates, batch quantities, and changeover performance.
• Lead or support recovery planning for missed milestones, material shortages, quality holds, equipment downtime, resource conflicts, rework loops, and urgent customer requirements.
• Provide daily and weekly reporting that distinguishes symptoms from verified causes and assigns clear actions, owners, and escalation dates.

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4. Inventory, WIP and Material Flow

• Monitor stock cover and material availability to prevent shortages while avoiding unnecessary overproduction, excess WIP, aging inventory, or premature starts.
• Adjust sequencing within approved authority when conditions change; escalate decisions that could affect the MPS, customer commitments, inventory policy, contractual priorities, or financial performance.
• Coordinate rework, inspection, hold, and release queues so nonconforming or awaiting-disposition material is not inadvertently scheduled as available production.
• Maintain visual controls and aging reviews that make blocked, at-risk, or excess work visible to responsible owners.

5. Aerospace and Defense Production Control

• Protect product safety, approved configuration, traceability, serialization or lot control, special-process sequencing, inspection points, and customer-specific requirements when building or changing the schedule.
• Ensure scheduling actions do not bypass required quality gates, first-article or production-readiness requirements, training, authorization, controlled documentation, or formal release status.
• Handle program, customer, technical, and production information in accordance with applicable export-control, security, access, and information-handling requirements.
• Support audit readiness by maintaining accurate planning records, rationale for priority changes, schedule status, and evidence of timely escalation and closure.

6. Systems, Analytics and Continuous Improvement

• Maintain accurate actual run dates, quantities, changeover data, order status, constraints, and planning master data in applicable systems.
• Use Excel, ERP/MRP, visual management, and analytical tools to identify schedule risk, constraint performance, and recurring causes of non-adherence.
• Apply root-cause analysis and Lean methods to improve scheduling stability, flow, launch discipline, WIP control, and cross-functional response.
• Standardize recurring planning work through documented routines, review cadence, definitions, and clear handoffs across shifts and functions.

Job Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED equivalent.
• Five or more years of production planning, shop-floor scheduling, material planning, production control, or related manufacturing experience.
• Demonstrated experience sequencing work against capacity, material, labor, tooling, equipment, and delivery constraints.
• Working proficiency with Microsoft Excel and enterprise planning or manufacturing systems used for MPS, MRP, work-order, inventory, and production-status control.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, written communication, and cross-functional coordination skills.
• Ability to work on-site in an active manufacturing environment and respond to changing priorities with accuracy and discipline.
• Must satisfy all position-specific employment eligibility, export-control, site-access, and security requirements applicable to the work performed, including ITAR/EAR or program requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience scheduling aerospace or defense manufacturing, aircraft transparencies, special processes, controlled production, or other high-mix regulated operations.
• Experience with SIOP, MPS, MRP, capacity planning, master data, inventory management, internal logistics, and warehouse interfaces.
• Knowledge of aerospace quality-system expectations, including configuration control, product safety, traceability, nonconformance controls, and on-time delivery.
• Experience working in a matrix organization with Operations, Programs, Quality, Engineering, Procurement, Maintenance, and Finance.
• Lean, APICS/ASCM, CPIM, CSCP, or related training or certification.
• Advanced Excel, ERP/MRP, dashboard, or data-visualization capability.

Compensation Data

Compensation Range: $74,054.00 - $92,567.00