About Oshkosh AeroTech, an Oshkosh company

Oshkosh AeroTech is a leading provider of aviation ground support products, gate equipment and airport services to commercial airlines, airports, air-freight carriers, ground handling and military customers. Oshkosh AeroTech offers products that make a difference in people’s lives by supporting those in our communities who do some of the toughest work. They own many of the most trusted brands in the air transportation industry, including LEKTRO®, JetAire®, JetPower®, AmpTekÔ, Jetway®, and more.

SUMMARY

Creating and maintaining a valid master schedule for materials and capacities by effectively balancing supply and demand for product

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Analyzes demand and supply at the unit, customer, and master schedule levels, determines capacity or lead time constrains, identifies alternatives, and recommends actions for approval.

• Act as internal educator and consultant on master scheduling issues, providing education and training throughout the company to improve company-wide understanding of master scheduling functions

• Identify, negotiate, and resolve conflicts with respect to material and capacity availability and order-promising integrity. Inform management when demand cannot be met and recommend alternatives on how the requested demand could be satisfied.

• Create a master schedule that satisfies customer demand while leveling work being released to manufacturing and optimizing inventory levels and resource utilization.

• Create a master schedule that can be used for detailed material/capacity planning as well as financial planning. Establish a working relationship with all company functions.

• Actively participate in Sales & Operations Planning, helping to set priorities when demand outstrips capacity. Run rough cut capacity planning monthly; maintain and update capacity data for all critical plant resources / work centers.

• Maximizes inventory turns without impacting manufacturing performance or customer satisfaction levels.

• Maintain scheduling parameters, such as lead times, lot sizes, cycle times. Liaise with engineering to ensure appropriate labor, machine, and scrap standards are used in master scheduling.

• Review each master scheduled item at least weekly.

• Collaborate with the Purchasing Team providing analytical data and reports to assist with material planning.

• Other projects and responsibilities may be added at the company’s discretion.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• APICS CPIM Certification preferred.

• Previous experience in roles of progressively increasing responsibilities in Production Planning in an industrial manufacturing environment.

• Previous experience in Master Scheduling/Capacity Planning.