Master Scheduler

IMI plc

We are a global specialist engineering company that creates breakthrough solutions. We are curious and like to solve problems, partnering with our customers to solve the demands of today and prepare for the challenges of tomorrow. We embrace innovation and care about outcomes that are good for business, everyday life and making a better world — creating lasting impact for everyone.

We design, build and service highly engineered products in fluid and motion control applications. We focus on five market sectors:
Industrial Automation, Process Automation, Climate Control, Life Science, and Transport.

Our partnership approach breaks through problems and reduces complexity. We don’t invent in isolation — we collaborate with our customers. We listen closely and we think differently, creating space for diverse minds to innovate. We are working together to make businesses safer, more sustainable and more productive.

The Master Scheduler is responsible for developing order execution plans for each work center in the plant. They will be required to monitor progress against these plans and initiate proactive corrective action to ensure on-time delivery to the customer promise dates. This job is autonomous, and the individual must accept total ownership of performance against the customer need dates and ensure compliance at all levels of the execution plan.

On-site in Lake Forest, CA Monday – Friday

• Develop a Shop Schedule in coordination with the production planners and production manager
• Sets daily and weekly priorities for the Job Shop based on customer needs and company goals.
• Assess impact of material shortages, engineering changes, and non-conforming materials and develops recovery and contingency plans to minimize schedule impact.
• Works with the planners and creates schedules to identify “key milestones” and ensures the timely execution of project.
• Develops and maintains capacity plans while identifying and solve bottlenecks in production.
• Highlight slippage, anomalies or issues and elevates issues to department heads.
• Proactively review if orders can be pulled in by working closely with Procurement, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Engineering, Production Control and/or Design Engineering.
• Bi-weekly review of new orders ensuring order execution can start immediately
• Responsible for updating Load and Capacity Models monthly
• Responsible for facilitating a monthly Sales and Operations Meeting as well as generating the presentation
• Responsible for establishing quarterly manufacturing hours for the shop based on Sales’ bookings profile
• Monthly responsibility for tracking on-time performance of manufactured parts

Priority Setting: Spends their time and the time of others on what’s important; quickly zeros in on the critical few and puts the trivial many aside; can quickly sense what will help or hinder accomplishing a goal; eliminates roadblocks; creates focus. Has the ability to work in a fast paced, versatile environment.

Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.

Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently a top performer; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.

Continuous Improvement: Continuous improvement, in regard to organizational quality and performance, focuses on improving customer satisfaction through continuous and incremental improvements to processes, including by removing unnecessary activities and variations.

Accuracy:Ability to maintain a high level of accuracy and attention to detail in all aspects of work.

Demonstrated analytical abilities with strong decision making, problem solving and conflict resolution skills.

• 3-5 years of experience preferred

Thorough knowledge of MRP, inventory management and project planning

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