Master Scheduler

Who We Are
Royal is a diverse manufacturer of injection molding, urethane foam and assemblies. We serve the automotive, furniture, and consumer products industries. People who succeed at Royal are those who share the values of our company: Integrity. Stewardship. Teamwork. Hard work. Excellence.

We're committed to being the employer of choice. Our goal is to build a culture of commitment where everyone is respected and valued. Where everyone participates. Where everyone matters. We give our employees the responsibility - and the authority - to make decisions. We try to provide the best possible work environment. We encourage creativity. We applaud ingenuity. We reward problem solving.
What You'll Do
Passionate about operations and manufacturing?Do you dig deep to find win/win solutions that balance competing objectives between a customer's ever changing needs and running a "lean" manufacturing organization? Do you enjoy digital transformations and leveraging data to improve the business?Do you anticipate the future and make great decisions about resource utilization?Do you connect dots and in a highly effective manner that streamlines the business of manufacturing. If so, join the team at Royal as a Master Scheduler, located at our Hudsonville, MI facility. This role reports to the Manager of Master Schedulers.


Job Responsibilities:

• Hold a crucial leadership role in plant-level supply chain operations, contributing significantly to overall planning, scheduling, purchasing, execution, inventory management, and ERP planning systems processes.
• Manage the master production schedule and rough cut capacity plan for both internal and external manufacturing sites optimizing production, considering customer and forecast demand, production capacities, material availability, and resource requirements. Addressing production issues, risks, and proposing effective solutions.
• Collaborate cross functionally with S&OP teams, including Sr Demand Planners to create and maintain a capacity requirements plan that supports orders anticipated for medium and long term plans.
• Be a vital stakeholder and participant in all S&OP and S&OE meetings required from plant perspective.
• Work independently under your own initiative with personal ownership for the results.
• Bring extreme ownership and coordinate with engineering, purchasing, and production to facilitate changes, ensuring appropriate configuration and communication of material requirements.
• Steward core manufacturing data to ensure that accurate information is used across the supply chain. Maintain replenishment signals within the ERP system for manufactured items to assure a smooth flow of materials and enable operational efficiency.
• Be data driven and analyze trends and KPI's that provide insight into opportunities where we can be better tomorrow than today.Incorporate findings and take action so that we effectively serve our stakeholders with the best information at the lead times to make solid decisions.
• Manage schedule attainment, establish, and maintain a production schedule process which results in an achievable plan that optimizes productivity, minimizes inventory, and maximizes customer service. Coordinate for production schedules to be published weekly and updated daily.
• Effectively communicate using data with all levels of the organization: shop floor to the plant leadership. Work with Production Managers on scheduling, capacity requirements planning, and providing input to management regarding delays in materials deliveries and/or production schedules.
• Operate with excellence, prepare run out analysis, coordinate and lead scheduling attainment activities and interaction with all functional areas to root cause to improve KPI, and also support the drive of plant improvements for delivery metrics, including Customer On-time Delivery metrics (CRSD - Customer Request Shipment Date, SSD - Schedule Ship / Promise Date, and Lead-time.)
• Passionate about extending knowledge by performing advanced business analytics and analysis to derive actionable insights and recommendations related to production planning, safety stock, and inventory management evaluating runouts for discontinued items and coordinating an exit strategy with Manufacturing, Engineering, Product Management, and Procurement.
• Coordinate with Supplier Scheduling, Manufacturing, Quality and Engineering to assure that materials are on site in a timely manner to facilitate speedy and accurate parts availability to meet customer demands.
• Coordinate the scheduling and inventory movement of all outside processing inventory locations.

What You'll Bring

Qualifications:

• BA/BS Degree In Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering is preferred
  • Equivalent career experience is acceptable if no degree is held
• 3-5 years minimum in Supply Chain (Materials Management, Inventory management, demand planning, supply planning, procurement, SIOP.)
• Critical thinker with strong mathematical and analytical skills
• Process-minded and continuous improvement focused
• Demonstrated ability to identify and evaluate alternative solutions to meet business needs
• Ability to work in matrix environments, drive change and influence business stakeholders
• Collaborative skills and ability to work in a multi-site virtual work environment telling the story with data
• Great communication, interpersonal skills, and team player mentality
• Provide instructions and directions to colleagues in the planning and procurement organization and other functional areas and/or regions.
• Works on problems of diverse scope; must be able to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Proficient in production planning, production scheduling, and shop floor control.
• Lean and Six Sigma certifications is preferred.

What You'll Get

• Work for an organization that "walks the talk" about caring for people
• An environment where you'll be challenged to provide the highest level of excellence in support and service.
• Quarterly bonuses based on profitability - we win together!
• Ownership in the company through our ESOP plan (Employee Stock Ownership Plan)
• Outstanding medical and dental insurance
• Weekly pay