Master Production Scheduler

Employment Type:

Full-Time

We are looking for an elite Master Scheduler & Planner to take ownership of the production schedule and planning process for a highly sophisticated CNC machining operation serving the aerospace, defense, and semiconductor industries.

This is not a traditional production scheduling position.

We are a high-mix, low-volume precision machine shop producing complex, mission-critical components where tolerance, quality, delivery, and process discipline are non-negotiable. Our work requires sophisticated planning across CNC machining, programming, tooling, raw materials, outside processing, inspection, engineering, and final delivery.

The right person will understand that a schedule is not simply a spreadsheet of due dates. It is a living manufacturing system that must account for machine capacity, labor, setup time, tooling, material availability, inspection capacity, outside services, engineering changes, process routing, bottlenecks, and the realities of running extremely tight-tolerance work.

We need someone who can look at the entire factory, understand what is happening at the machine level, identify what will prevent us from hitting our commitments, and proactively drive the organization around those constraints.

You should be the person who knows what needs to happen next — before everyone else realizes there is a problem.

Own and continuously optimize the master production schedule across a complex, high-mix CNC machining environment.

You will:

• Develop and maintain a realistic, executable master production schedule.
• Translate customer demand, sales orders, forecasts, and committed ship dates into a detailed manufacturing plan.
• Schedule work based on finite capacity, not theoretical capacity.
• Balance machine capacity, labor, tooling, inspection, material, outside processing, and other constraints.
• Identify bottleneck machines and processes before they become schedule failures.
• Establish appropriate priorities across competing customer requirements.
• Continuously re-sequence work as conditions change while protecting critical customer commitments.
• Maintain visibility to the next several weeks and months of production capacity.
• Develop recovery plans when jobs fall behind schedule.
• Provide leadership with an accurate picture of what can realistically ship, when it can ship, and what is preventing it from shipping sooner.

Build detailed production plans that connect the master schedule to the actual work being performed on the shop floor.

You will coordinate:

• Routing operations
• Setup and run times
• Fixtures and work holding
• Rework and nonconformance activity
• Packaging and shipping requirements

You will understand the difference between a job being scheduled and a job actually being ready to run.

You will work closely with machinists, programmers, manufacturing engineers, quality, inspection, purchasing, and operations leadership to ensure that the schedule reflects reality.

You will regularly be on the shop floor.

You will:

• Monitor actual production performance against the schedule.
• Identify jobs at risk of missing their committed dates.
• Escalate issues early rather than after the schedule has already failed.
• Remove constraints preventing jobs from moving forward.
• Drive schedule adherence and on-time delivery.
• Help establish realistic production priorities without creating unnecessary chaos on the floor.
• Ensure that jobs are released in the correct sequence and at the correct time.
• Prevent premature job release and unnecessary WIP.
• Maintain control of WIP through every stage of the manufacturing process.

You will not manage the schedule from behind a desk. You will manage it from the intersection of the ERP system, the planning process, and the shop floor.

A major part of this position is understanding our true manufacturing capacity.

You will:

• Develop and maintain capacity models by machine, work center, department, and critical process.
• Analyze machine utilization and available capacity.
• Identify future capacity constraints.
• Model the impact of new orders and schedule changes.
• Identify…