Senior Manager, Production Planning & Scheduling

Business Unit: Cubic Integrated Supply Chain Company Details: When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

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Reporting to the VP of SIOP, this position is responsible for creating and maintaining production schedules for multiple manufacturing sites to ensure that all company goals are achieved and deadlines are met. By developing effective schedules, this role plays a major part in helping the company reach its objectives. A strong understanding of the production process is essential, along with the ability to generate and maintain effective daily and weekly schedules.

Responsibilities include posting schedules, solving production problems, seeking process improvements, and helping fulfill company expectations. This position develops daily or weekly production schedules to ensure that production deadlines are met, determines material, equipment, and labor requirements, prepares status and performance reports, and resolves production issues.

• Establish operational objectives, policies and procedures for production planning and scheduling function at a manufacturing site
• Accountable for the execution of the integrated production supply plan and management thereof to ultimately meet customer demand at manufacturing site; needs to be a strong tactical decision maker; ability to handle unforeseen issues
• Oversee the development and implementation of a robust supply plan that maximizes production capacity and achieves a high level of clear-to-build status for material availability to meet customer demand, revenue commitments.
• Proactively monitor material availability by ensuring Purchase Orders and preceding activities are executed in a timely manner to avoid program impact
• Ensure optimal inventory levels and avoid stock-outs by implementing strategies such as strategic safety stock, forecasting, safety lead times, etc.
• Responsible for analyzing production capacities and developing long-term strategies for scaling operation needs based on demand changes, operational constraints, and new product introductions
• Establish strong partnerships with procurement, logistics, operations to ensure continuous flow of production from an end-to-end state uninterrupted
• Over to safeguard ability to meet production schedule and meet on-time delivery
• Establish processes to continually audit and refine planning processes where deficiencies or opportunities for continuous improvement exist
• Oversee a team of experienced production planners/schedulers, develop and mentor immediate planning team on best-in-class practices, improvement opportunities, goals, and career progression
• Accountable to drive metric results by tracking key performance indicators such as MPS Attainment, Capacity Attainment, MPS Loading, On-Time to Customer Request, Customer Past Due, Revenue, Annual Operating Plan (AOP)
• Lead and mentor teams through RCCA (root cause and corrective actions) analysis process in the Supply Chain function
• Key contributor in overall SIOP (Sales, inventory and operations planning) process
• Key contributor in AOP Revenue Planning process
• Accountable for department budget, departmental goals and targets in line with leadership objectives and vision
• Use data analytics for decision making where solution is not straight forward, or problem is not clearly defined

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business management, or related field is required; master’s preferred
• Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) accreditation or other relevant certification is advantageous.
• 10+ years of experience / sound knowledge of material requirements…