Master Scheduler

Manufacturing And Subcontractor Planning Lead

The purpose of this position is to lead and coordinate the planning and scheduling activities across all phases of the manufacturing process and subcontracted operations, ensuring alignment between business demand, customer commitments, available capacity, and resource availability. The role is responsible for consolidating requirements from Project Management, Spares, Field Service, and other key stakeholders, translating them into both detailed operational schedules and high-level execution plans that support the achievement of business objectives.

The position provides visibility and control over workload, capacity, and resource utilization, monitoring progress against commitments and proactively identifying, communicating, and mitigating risks that may impact delivery performance. Through effective planning, reporting, and KPI management, the role supports informed decision-making, drives operational efficiency, and ensures the successful execution of manufacturing and service-related activities.

Core Tasks

• Develop and maintain integrated manufacturing and subcontractor schedules, balancing customer commitments, priorities, capacity, and resources.
• Lead daily production planning meetings, monitoring progress, resolving issues, and following up on actions and constraints.
• Lead weekly planning review meetings with Purchasing, Procurement, Project Management, Field Service, Manufacturing, and other stakeholders to address delays, risks, supplier performance, and resource constraints.
• Gather and prioritize demand from Project Management, Spares, Field Service, and other business functions, translating requirements into operational and strategic plans.
• Perform monthly workload and capacity analyses, evaluating planning scenarios to support business decisions.
• Monitor manufacturing and subcontractor performance against plan, identifying, escalating, and resolving risks impacting delivery.
• Escalate resource shortages, supplier non-compliance, delivery risks, and planning conflicts, ensuring timely mitigation actions.
• Develop and enhance SAP planning reports, dashboards, and tools to improve visibility and decision-making.
• Manage schedule baselines, forecasts, progress updates, and planning governance in line with established standards.
• Monitor and report key planning KPIs, including schedule adherence, capacity utilization, workload, delivery performance, backlog, and supplier performance.
• Maintain SAP master data for routings, production orders, and work orders to support effective planning and material procurement.
• Review and update MRP dates and parameters in SAP to ensure material availability aligns with production schedules and delivery commitments.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance planning accuracy, resource utilization, operational efficiency, and delivery performance.

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Occupational Safety, Health & Environmental Responsibilities Responsible for working in accordance with the training, work procedures, and instructions to ensure satisfactory Safety Health & Environmental performance. Exercise personal responsibility in taking reasonable care of the safety and health of themselves and others who may be affected by their activities. Responsible for reporting accidents, unsafe acts and defective equipment to their supervisor. Cooperate with management and supervisors by actively participating in Safety Health & Environmental improvement activities.

Qualifications Of Position Holder: Expert Know How/Knowledge • Ability to manage projects, processes and personnel in an effective, efficient manner. • Ability to meet deadlines while maintaining close control of labor-hours. • Possess strong discipline to provide accurate and timely data. • Must be able to work independently, making sound decisions utilizing good judgement. • Impeccable attention to detail, effective problem solving skills. • Able to thrive in a fast pace environment. • Ability to work well with a team. • Ability to handle multiple tasks at one time – accurately, efficiently and effectively. • Must be self-directed, professional and dependable. • Demonstrate dependable work habits and schedule. • Observe all safety rules, procedures, and OSHA regulations. • Very good organizational skills is a must due to contact communication with various departments. • An accomplished and engaging people leader. • Strong leadership skills, independent thinking, strong organizational and planning abilities and excellent analytical and problem solving skills are essential. • Superior communication skills in dealing with all levels of staff, including hourly workforce and senior management. • Previous experience working with SAP production modules is desirable (PP, MM, WM modules). • Ability to run MRP for planning purposes

Expected (Educational) Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience. • A minimum of 4 years direct experience in production planning, master scheduling, or materials management within a factory environment in heavy industry, or manufacturing of metals/industrial paint/electrical assembly. • Software skills: Advanced mastery of Microsoft Excel (using pivot tables and VLOOKUP) • APICS (CPIM) certification valued

Work Environment: Office Employees · Typical office environment with frequent shop floor visits to monitor production progress and support effective planning and execution. · Mostly indoor office environment with windows · Offices with equipment noise · Offices with frequent interruptions