Shop Floor Scheduler

Location Congleton
Contact Matt Spencer
Job Ref 7413
Published 2 years ago
Job Type Permanent

Job Description

RPS are exclusively partnered with a global tier 1 aerospace manufacturer based in Cheshire, who are looking for Shopfloor Schedular following an extended period of high business growth.
 

ROLE PURPOSE: 

Manages Shop Floor Scheduling activities in the Production Area. It includes the management of visual systems to communicate / monitor the sequence of production orders, ensuring the availability of resources (tooling, raw material…etc….), Create and maintain the optimal production sequence
 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

  • Sequence work orders in line with latest demand requirements and aligned to MPS for specified products and production lines understanding all the physical and manning constraints of these lines.
  • Monitor manufacturing output/performance daily against the schedule, challenging and understanding whenever performance differs from standard.
  • Monitor Stock cover daily in order to avoid Stock outs as well as overstocks by adjusting the execution sequence if possible or raising the issue with the Master Scheduler.
  • Maximize shared manufacturing resource output/utilization while ensuring full coherence with MPS product mix, volumes and required availability dates,
  • Ensure that sequenced plan:
    • Is feasible and balanced,
    • Includes all scheduled downtime (Holiday, routine maintenance, Line closures, etc.),
    • Is supportable with available packaging, tooling, fixtures, manning….
  • Monitor availability of raw material / components and escalate as required to Procurement / Master Scheduler.
  • Proactively communicate/escalate to the Master Scheduler / Area management potential production execution issues/constraints to trigger preventive actions against potential supply failure.
  • Weekly track, challenge and report Schedule Adherence with reasons for deviation to Production Area Management and Master Scheduler.
  • Support Gemba meetings/Tier meetings as required.
   

 

PERSON SPECIFICATION:

Essential:

  • Secondary Education
  • Expert level for: Daily Scheduling & Execution
  • Intermediate level excel
  • Data/Demand interrogation/ERP interrogation

Desirable:

  • Practitioner level for Forecasting & Demand Planning, SIOP / MPS / MRP, Master Data Management, Inventory Management, Internal Flow & Warehousing
  • Value stream knowledge of product
  • Value stream knowledge of process

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