Master Scheduler – Job Description
Linamar Forgings Carolina (LFC) is part of Linamar Corporation’s mobility Segment where the intersection of leading-edge technology and deep manufacturing expertise is creating solutions that power vehicles, motion, work, and lives for the future.
As a Master Scheduler, you shall ensure the good balance between the guarantee to have the good material on time and the inventory level at LFC.
This position reports to LFC’s Forge Production Manager.
Primary Responsibilities
- Create build plans from forecast data, ensuring finish goods levels are controlled.
- Maintain and update MRP based on historic usage and inventory level management.
- Create production schedules from build plans, ensuring customer priorities and finish goods mix is controlled. Create management report to pilot the activity.
- Manage the material supply schedule: analyze the schedules calculated by ERP, release the approved schedules to the suppliers (included internal one for tooling availability), manage the supply chain to pick up the material.
- Communicate schedule releases and changes, issue work orders on a timely basis for production lines.
Perform other tasks/duties as assigned.
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Required Skills and/or Qualifications.
- Post secondary education or equivalent experience in Production Planning or related field experience.
- An APICS designation or equivalent would be beneficial.
- Five (5) years directly related work experience.
- Mastery of Excel and MRP area.
- Experience with MS Office 365 skills (i.e. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio)
- Rigorous and easy with numbers
- Ability to manage small projects/programs with limited assistance from others.
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with constantly changing priorities.
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