Eaton’s AER FED Fluid Electrical Distribution division is currently seeking a Master Scheduler.

What you’ll do:

Primary Function:

This position is responsible for coordinating all demand with sending sites, and providing a plan at order receipt considering level loading, capacity, strategic inventory (buffer stock), working on planning initiatives, etc. The Individual on this role is the focal point for customer calls and shipment status. Responsible for managing and scheduling independent demand orders; balancing plant and supplier capacities and resources. Responsible for establishing and maintaining the Master Production Schedule within the material Requirements Planning System (MFG Pro) ensuring correct requirements generation and flow down. Key member of the Sales, Inventory and Operational Planning (SIOP) process team, helping to balance current and forecasted customer requirements and plant production schedules.

Essential Functions:

• Balances current and future customer demand requirements with manufacturing and supplier capabilities/capacities to ensure completion of customer requirements

• Creates the Master Production Schedule in the MRP system to generate requirements for manufactured and purchased parts while ensuring desired inventory levels are maintained

• Acts as a tie breaker between customer service and manufacturing: Reviews new sales order requests and provides a feasible promise date to customer service before the orders are promised.

• Analyzes data, including enterprise requirements planning information and prepares reports as needed to facilitate and recommend actions to ensure optimal supply chain execution

• Reviews planning parameters in order execution systems (such as MFGPro) to ensure proper order generation.

• Coordinates with supply Chain, Manufacturing and Customer Service groups to maintain plant-wide production scheduling information.

• Assists materials planning group in analyzing the need for and size of strategic inventories to meet customer demand fluctuations.

• Determines appropriate Master Schedule time fences at the site and ensures that production schedules are level loaded and that plant output is as linear as possible while customer service levels are maximized.

• Monitors MPS stability, tracks reasons for schedule changes and ensures that root causes for schedule volatility are being resolved.

• Deploys a common SIOP process across the division that is based on the Eaton 5 step methodology

• Facilitates the divisional demand planning meetings, the supply planning process, the financial reconciliation and the final SIOP plan review

• Facilitates cross functional activities to resolve demand and capacity imbalances before the operations are impacted and presents potential solutions during the SIOP meeting for approval.

• Ensure that the SIOP plan is converted into sales volumes and drives the financial forecast and that the SIOP plan is loaded timely into the plant ERP systems to drive the MPS

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Qualifications:

Basic qualifications:

• 3-5 years of related experience.

• 3-5 years’ experience within a manufacturing setting.

• Experience scheduling and planning of manufacturing processes.

• Bilingual English/ Spanish

• Good communication skills

• Knowledge of materials planning systems (MRP/ERP) requirements and order generation process logic.

• Detailed understanding of SIOP process

• MRP experience Metal Mechanic type process, auditing techniques to ensure

Preferred Specialized Knowledge (not required to be qualified for position):

• Understanding of problem-solving methods (Six Sigma, 8D, root cause analysis) Good communication skills

• Detail Oriented

• Knowledge of industry and customer specific quality registration schemes and certification processes (ISO9001, AS9100)

• Previous Aerospace experience preferred.

Skills:

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