What are the responsibilities and job description for the Master Scheduler position at ZF Group?
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Job Description
Job Description
About the team: The ZF Garrett team supports packaging and light assembly of braking, electronics, and steering products for the automotive service distribution.
What you can look forward to as Master scheduler:
- Analyzes customer demand data to support Operational capacity for short term and long-term planning.
- Monitors production schedule to satisfy customer demand including making recommendations for overtime or temporary relocation of manpower.
- Monitors and tracks customer actual demand vs planned demand for comparison to provide decision making data to Operational management.
- Tracks and provides metric reporting for daily, weekly, monthly Operational KPI reporting /Communicates within department or other functional areas potential problems which may impact production or customer delivery including late arriving components, stock outs, production delays.
- Adjusts production schedule as necessary for short lead time customer orders including creation of manual shop orders / Works with Customer Service team or production clerk to reallocate on hand inventory for production orders on shared components.
- Provides data for and assists with implementation of continuous improvement projects.
- Complies with all TS-16949 and ISO-14001 policies and standards.
Your profile as Master Scheduler:
- Minimum experience of 1 year in production control, production scheduling, or material planning.
- Intermediate level PC based software, spreadsheet, and data analysis skills.
- Intermediate to advanced MS Excel skills required. (Pivot tables, cross data, advanced formules) Nice to have experience with macros.
- Nice to have Power BI skills.
- Experience with utilizing ERP systems (SAP and BPCS nice to have)
- Ability to effectively communicate with others to obtain data, follow up, and drive closure to projects/operational plans.
- Self-starter with excellent problem-solving abilities. Able to assist in problem resolution and decision making.
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities and multiple tasks.
Why to choose ZF at Garrett?:
- A supportive, collaborative team environment
- Annual Incentive Plan
- Paid Vacation
- Personal Time
- Health Care Benefits
- Paid Holidays
- A strong diversity culture
- Supportive Employee Groups and community outreach activities