What are the responsibilities and job description for the Master Scheduler position at Alliance Industries Inc?
Position Posting: Master Scheduler (Terra Sonic)
Position Summary
Terra Sonic International is a rapidly growing company specializing in the dynamic and diverse sonic drilling industry. We are seeking a Master Scheduler to support our Assembly, Fabrication, and Machining teams. The Master Scheduler contributes to the organization through planning and scheduling manufactured items to align with customer expectations. Additional areas of responsibility include monitoring demand channels, ERP work order management, and tracking metrics for key performance indicators.
Responsibilities
Maintain manufacturing forecasts for drill rigs, tooling, sonic accessories, sonic heads, and sonic head repairs.
- Collaborate with manufacturing department leaders to align capacity with demand.
- Conduct analysis of "what-if" scenario analysis.
Monitor all demand channels to assure timely order completion.
- Customer orders, service orders, transfer orders to U.S. and Italian facilities.
Schedule production for drill rigs, tooling, sonic accessories, sonic heads, sonic head repairs.
- Communicate production status to the Sales Coordinator.
Quote manufacturing lead times for customer inquiries.
- Evaluate current and planned manufacturing load.
- Synchronize production activities across manufacturing departments.
- Coordinate with purchasing personnel for raw materials and outside services.
Manage ERP work order costs for drill rigs, tooling, sonic accessories, sonic heads, and sonic head repairs.
- Compare material, labor, overhead, and outside service cost estimates to actual work order costs.
- Coordinate cost corrections and/or recommend review of labor standards.
- Collaborate with warehouse and engineering personnel to ensure accurate inventory status.
- Monitor the accumulation of labor hours on work orders.
Track and publish KPIs for manufacturing departments.
- Cost, efficiency, utilization, throughput, and performance to on-time commitments.
Contribute to continuous improvement projects.
- Follow LSS principles to reduce waste, ensure quality, and improve overall performance.
Education and Experience
- Prior experience working with ERP systems in a Manufacturing environment.
- Preference for Apics CPIM certification or willingness to gain CPIM certification.
- Associate’s degree or higher in business administration or related field.
- Two or more years in a planning, scheduling, or inventory management role, or
- Equivalent combination of education and experience.