Master Scheduler

Job Summary

Responsible for the management of the weekly production plan in order to balance demand and supply within available capacity and set Inventory targets.

Orchestrate the cross-functional MPS activities following the GKN Aerospace standard.

Job Responsibilities

• Ensuring the efficient and effective scheduling of maintenance operations, optimizing resource allocation, and enhancing overall productivity in line with customer demands and organizational goals.
• Work closely with various departments, including production, procurement, and engineering, to create, maintain, and adjust schedules that balance capacity and workload while minimizing delays and maximizing safety and quality.
• Create and maintain the production schedules according to Programmes’ customers’ requirements while maintaining Inventory targets and optimizing capacity for each processes.
• Schedule production for all related products in line with the understanding of all and manning constraints.
• Ensure that Master Production Schedule:

• • Is feasible and balanced against resource / demonstrated capacity.,
  • Includes all phase-in / out, transfer plans as well as new programmes development.
  • Is based on agreed working calendar and includes all planned downtime (Holiday, routine maintenance, Line closures, etc.)
  • Production Past Dues are re-scheduled

• Monitor output/performance daily against the schedule, challenging and understanding whenever performance differs from standard.
• Maximize shared manufacturing resource output/utilization while ensuring full coherence with MPS product mix, volumes and required shipment dates.
• Proactively communicate/escalate to the management team any potential MPS issues / constraints to trigger preventive actions in order to mitigate supply failure risk.
• Support the team in analyzing WIP levels in order to optimize / challenge current status and search for improvement opportunities.
• Provide communication / feedback to Group Leader and Team Leaders in case of any potential supply issues and also in order to improve Forecast accuracy.
• Ensure relevant KPI’s are monitored and PDCA approach applied with A3 in case of deviation to ensure targets are delivered in a sustainable way (e.g.: Master Schedule Adherence, Customer Past Dues, Days Inventory Outstanding),
• Support continuous improvement projects / activities,
• Ensure required information is up to date for all planning and scheduling purposes.
• To update the shipment vs plan visual dashboard daily

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 2-4 years’ experience in production scheduling, operations planning, or a similar role within the MRO or manufacturing industry.
• Strong understanding of MRO processes, including maintenance workflows, resource planning, and inventory management.
• Early career graduate for MPS lead roles
• APICS CPIM Part1
• Expert level for: Operations Supply Planning / MPS / MRP
• Practitioner level for Forecasting & Demand Planning, Daily Scheduling & Execution, Master Data Mgt., Inventory Management, Internal Flow & Warehousing+ “soft skills” from leadership framework
• Graduate level
• Entry level for Strategic Planning, Transportation Management, Inbound / Outbound Flow, End-to-End visibility and data exchange, Industry & Product acumen, Project Management, Leveraging IT solutions, Lean Mind-set & Business Excellence, People Excellence, Business Process Excellence, Operations Excellence