Master Scheduler

OVERALL POSITION

PURPOSE:

The purpose of this position is to lead and coordinate the planning and scheduling activities across all phases of the manufacturing process and subcontracted operations, ensuring alignment between business demand, customer commitments, available capacity, and resource availability. The role is responsible for consolidating requirements from Project Management, Spares, Field Service, and other key stakeholders, translating them into both detailed operational schedules and high-level execution plans that support the achievement of business objectives.

The purpose of this position is to lead and coordinate the planning and scheduling activities across all phases of the manufacturing process and subcontracted operations, ensuring alignment between business demand, customer commitments, available capacity, and resource availability. The role is responsible for consolidating requirements from Project Management, Spares, Field Service, and other key stakeholders, translating them into both detailed operational schedules and high-level execution plans that support the achievement of business objectives.

The position provides visibility and control over workload, capacity, and resource utilization, monitoring progress against commitments and proactively identifying, communicating, and mitigating risks that may impact delivery performance. Through effective planning, reporting, and KPI management, the role supports informed decision-making, drives operational efficiency, and ensures the successful execution of manufacturing and service-related activities.

• Develop and maintain integrated manufacturing and subcontractor schedules, balancing customer commitments, priorities, capacity, and resources.
• Lead daily production planning meetings, monitoring progress, resolving issues, and following up on actions and constraints.
• Lead weekly planning review meetings with Purchasing, Procurement, Project Management, Field Service, Manufacturing, and other stakeholders to address delays, risks, supplier performance, and resource constraints.
• Gather and prioritize demand from Project Management, Spares, Field Service, and other business functions, translating requirements into operational and strategic plans.
• Perform monthly workload and capacity analyses, evaluating planning scenarios to support business decisions.
• Monitor manufacturing and subcontractor performance against plan, identifying, escalating, and resolving risks impacting delivery.
• Escalate resource shortages, supplier non‑compliance, delivery risks, and planning conflicts, ensuring timely mitigation actions.
• Develop and enhance SAP planning reports, dashboards, and tools to improve visibility and decision‑making.
• Manage schedule baselines, forecasts, progress updates, and planning governance in line with established standards.
• Monitor and report key planning KPIs, including schedule adherence, capacity utilization, workload, delivery performance, backlog, and supplier performance.
• Maintain SAP master data for routings, production orders, and work orders to support effective planning and material procurement.
• Review and update MRP dates and parameters in SAP to ensure material availability aligns with production schedules and delivery commitments.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance planning accuracy, resource utilization, operational efficiency, and delivery performance.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Responsible for working in accordance with the training, work procedures, and instructions to ensure satisfactory Safety Health & Environmental performance. Exercise personal responsibility in taking reasonable care of the safety and health of themselves and others who may be affected by their activities. Responsible for reporting accidents, unsafe acts and defective equipment to their…