What are the responsibilities and job description for the Master Scheduler position at Kidde-Fenwal LLC?
Master Scheduler
Location: Ashland, MA
Reports To: Planning Manager
Company Overview
KiddeFenwal is a global leader in industrial and commercial fire protection, delivering advanced fire suppression, detection, and control solutions that protect lives, safeguard property, and ensure business continuity. Our flagship brands—Kidde Fire Systems and Kidde Fire Protection—serve mission-critical sectors including industrial, commercial, marine, and special hazard environments. Fenwal Controls complements this portfolio with OEM-focused gas ignition, temperature control, and overheat detection solutions.
With operations across the U.S., U.K., and India, KiddeFenwal combines deep domain expertise with global reach to deliver innovative, compliant, and reliable fire and safety systems.
Learn more at www.kiddefenwal.com.
Our Purpose
We protect lives, livelihoods, and icons by delivering intelligent, reliable engineered and pre-engineered fire protection systems. Our values—integrity, speed, innovation, teamwork, excellence, and safety—drive how we work, lead, and grow.
The Position
The Master Scheduler is accountable for creating, maintaining, and executing the Master Production Schedule (MPS) to align production output with customer demand, capacity constraints, and supply availability. This role leads the supply side of the S&OP process, serves as the primary operations representative in customer quoting, and drives resolutions of supply exceptions that impact revenue, inventory, and customer service.
Key Responsibilities
Master Production Scheduling & Capacity Management
- Develop, publish, and maintain the Master Production Schedule to support customer demand, forecast requirements, and strategic business goals
- Monitor and adjust production schedules to address demand changes, capacity constraints, and supply disruptions.
- Perform capacity planning and finite scheduling analysis to identify bottlenecks and constraints.
- Recommend schedule adjustments, overtime, or resource shifts to meet service targets.
S&OP & Cross-Functional Leadership
- Partner with Sales, Operations, and Supply Chain to align demand plans with executable production schedules.
- Act as the operations representative in large customer order quoting, providing input on lead times and supply risks.
- Communicate schedule priorities, changes, and risks proactively.
Machine Shop Planning & Inventory Strategy
- Act as planner for the machine shop, building and maintaining production schedules.
- Own stocking strategies and make-versus-buy decisions.
- Improve schedule efficiency through better sequencing and reduced changeovers.
- Lead exception messages such as pull-ins, pushouts, and cancellations within the planning and buying teams
Performance & Continuous Improvement
- Track and report key KPIs such as:
- On-time delivery
- Production schedule attainment
- Capacity utilization
- Overdue backlog conversion
- Support ERP/MRP system accuracy, data integrity, and planning parameter optimization.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to production flow and planning processes
Qualifications & Experience
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, or technical field
- 3 years of experience in production planning or master scheduling within a manufacturing environment.
- Strong understanding of ERP systems and capacity planning.
- Experience influencing multiple stakeholders and leading cross functional teams
- Knowledge of Lean Six Sigma and process improvement methodologies
Preferred
- APICS CPIM or CSCP Certification
- Experience supporting or leading S&OP processes.
- Prior experience supervising or leading others
- Experience with analytics or visualization tools such as PowerBI and Tableau
KiddeFenwal is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
Salary : $100,000 - $115,000