Shop Floor Scheduler
Datum: 7 jan. 2025
Plaats: Papendrecht, NL
Bedrijf: GKN Aerospace Careers
Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.
GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.35 bn.in 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.
Job Summary
As shop floor scheduler, you will manage all planning activities within a production area. This includes managing visual systems to determine and monitor the sequence of production orders, ensure the availability of resources and create and maintain the optimal production sequence.
Job Responsibilities
- Production planning: Create and maintain production schedules based on customer orders, inventory levels and production capacity.
- Resource allocation: Allocate resources such as labour, machinery and materials to meet production requirements.
- Coordination: Collaborate with various departments, including production, logistics and procurement, to ensure smooth production flow.
- Monitoring: Track the progress of production orders and adjust schedules as needed to meet changing requirements or solve problems.
- Inventory management: Manage inventory levels to avoid over- or shortages while minimizing inventory costs.
- Problem solving: Identify and address production bottlenecks, delays and other issues that may affect production schedules.
Job Qualifications
To best fulfil this role, we require the following:
- Bachelor degree preferably in Supply Chain/Logistics
- An advantage is having experience with day-to-day planning within an operations environment.
- As a type of person, you are stress-resistant. You can work both independently and in a team and you are eager to learn. You can work in a precise and planned manner.
- Good communication skills, you know how to create support for your ideas in order to get stakeholders on board.
- You enjoy thinking about process optimisation.
What's in it for you
Besides an innovative and international work environment that offers you a good work-life balance
We offer you opportunities to learn and grow, a competitive salary (Grade H ) pension plan, 27 vacation days / 13 ADV days and travel allowance (from 10 km single journey) as well.
How to apply?
Are you interested in this position and does your background meet the requirements? Please use the Apply Now button.
Questions? Please contact our Recruiter Koen van Stigt on Koen.vanStigt@fokker.com.
We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?
A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working
Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. 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’. 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.
We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.
