Project Scheduler

Your role
You are a motivated, detail-oriented professional looking to build or advance your career in project and production scheduling with a leading innovator and manufacturer of turboexpander technology. You possess strong analytical skills and a desire to learn how to solve complex scheduling and capacity constraint challenges across multiple concurrent projects in a dynamic engineer-to-order (ETO) environment. In this role, you will be a key member of the production planning group, coordinating schedules, priorities, and project information across the organization to support efficient resource utilization and on-time, on-budget delivery.
The compensation range for this position is $83,464.06 - $ annually. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus. Atlas Copco provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave, tuition assistance, referral bonus and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.

Your day-to-day

• Project Initiation:
  You will review the scope and requirements of new project opportunities against the current sales and operations plan, capacity, and existing commitments to propose realistic and achievable delivery lead times.
• Project Scheduling:
  You will utilize established standards to configure and schedule new projects composed of work breakdown structures (WBS), networks of activities, and referenced bills of materials (BOMs). You will support further development and refinement of these standards over time as our needs and knowledge evolve.
• Project Execution / Monitoring:
  In support of the master production schedule, you will plan and maintain projects composed of networks of activities (durations and relationships), monitor and report status/progress of those networks of activities, anticipate and support resolution of capacity/load constraints, and monitor and report hours/materials budget progress.
• Project Troubleshooting:
  When unplanned events affect project execution, you will analyze schedule and resource impacts, evaluate alternatives, and recommend recovery plans that support the master production schedule and customer delivery commitments.
• Project Changes:
  You will evaluate and process sales order scope changes, assess their impact on project schedules and resource requirements, and support implementation of the revised plan.

This role reports to the Production Planning Manager and will work and collaborate as an integral part of a tight-knit and dynamic team helping to support cost-effective on-time delivery of goods and equipment. Other extended team members include: master scheduling, material requirements planning, and material handling who support a manufacturing facility of over 160 skilled technicians, welders, and machinists.

• How to identify, assess, and resolve scheduling challenges in a concurrent engineering and manufacturing environment.
• Project planning and scheduling within an engineer-to-order (ETO) manufacturing environment.
• Hands-on experience with SAP ERP/MRP, Enovia PLM, internal documentation systems, including Mediawiki, and other planning tools.
• Planning, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting practices used to support complex manufacturing projects.

• Maintaining timely project planning and scheduling activities with minimal process backlog.
• Maintaining accurate, current visibility of project schedules, milestones, constraints, and priorities.
• Proactively identifying schedule, capacity, material, and resource risks and supporting timely resolution.
• Achieving common goals by actively supporting other team members as needed.
• Maintaining strong working relationships and open communication across manufacturing, engineering, project management, and other business functions.
• To go above and beyond:
  Challenging the status quo, identifying opportunities for improvement, and helping implement practical solutions.

• You can build effective working relationships across manufacturing, engineering, project management, supply chain, and other business functions.
• You are highly proficient with business systems and data analysis tools, including Microsoft Excel, and can quickly learn new software and digital workflows.
• You have experience working with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Material Requirements Planning (MRP) systems; SAP…