The Production Scheduler is responsible for proactively maintaining and continuously improving the production schedule. Perform all duties to ensure the departmental schedules are accurate and communicated to all relevant departments to drive short term execution of plans Ensure all schedules are created respecting existing labour and asset capacities and achievable based on planned material availabilities Drive timely resolution of all scheduling conflicts with relevant stakeholders.

-  Create, track and maintain the short term schedules to provide visibility to defined departments to drive short term execution of plans

· Incorporate input from all relevant departments to ensure schedules are realistic within relevant constraints and latest information

· Drive optimization of schedules by balancing demand priorities against optimal production sequencing and efficient resource (facility/suite, equipment, staff, materials etc.) utilization

· Ensure all feedback regarding changes to existing plans is incorporated into schedules in timely manner

· Maintain detailed planning and scheduling parameters in planning system to allow optimal use of system scheduling functionality

· Generate relevant KPI and operational measures to support identification of trends or root causing of sub-optimal performance

· Maintain accurate production schedule, providing data for the MRP process to meet production demands

· Review documents such as production schedules, work orders, and staffing tables to determine personnel and materials requirements, and material priorities

· Monitor production data, including volume produced, consumption of raw materials, and quality control measures, using this information for Continuous Improvement activities such as maintenance of routings and BOM’s, increasing accuracy of production schedule and efficiency reporting

Stakeholder 1 Procurement

Stakeholder 2 Production and Development Departments

Stakeholder 3 Supply Planner

General Supervision: The incumbent normally receives little instruction on day-to-day work and receives general instructions on new assignments.

Skills:

· Ability to influence both Supply Chain and functional leaders to support production optimization recommendations

· Good communication and presentation skills. Ability to present ideas in a clear and concise manner

· Strong analytical skills with the ability to define metrics (KPI’s) and identify issues through root cause

analysis

· Ability to use production scheduling systems

· Competent using MS Office suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint

· Ability to utilise Business Intelligence systems to extract data and generate reports

- English needed for this role / german a plus