Master Scheduling Manager

**Career Area**:Manufacturing & Supply Chain
**A chance to make quality products that matter.**

How does it feel to make something that makes life better for people around the globe? As a Caterpillar manufacturing professional, you’ll know—because every day you’ll make sure our customers get the quality products they need to build our world’s infrastructure. And you’ll do it in modern, clean, safe environments equipped with the latest technologies.

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.

**Description**

To develop and manage master scheduling process that promotes maximization of efficiency and optimization of resources / assets internally while retaining enough flexibility to ensure that all customer needs are met in a timely and cost-conscious manner. Responsible for key supply chain performance indicators such as production plan performance, steel utilization, and order-to-delivery. Manage the shipping process to meet customer expectation related to on time delivery by using different strategies such as make to order and make to stock.

**Responsibilities**:
Direct Reports include Production Schedulers, Scheduling Analysts, Order Analysts, Nesters, Clerks and Data Entry.

Gathers forecast and constrained Sales and Operations Planning data and analyzes information to develop a valid production plan and an achievable master schedule for the facility.

Incumbent leads the facility Sales and Operations Process, reporting performance to forecast, production and inventory plans in both dollars and units. Incumbent is the facility’s key resource for information related to address demand planning issues and coordinate efforts across supply chain and operations functions.

The incumbent leads efforts to achieve customer delivery/promise dates by setting and managing shop priorities. This position is responsible for the preparation and effective communication of the facility master schedule, after collaborating with other functions, both inside and outside of the facility and / or business division. Incumbent leads master scheduling for the facility, working closely with other functions., facility leadership, manufacturing, engineering, logistics, and external business partners.

Incumbent uses common processes to develop and distribute the measurements and reports necessary to monitor progress towards goals and provide a feedback loop through which decisions can be made regarding short-term scheduling. This position drives compliance and quality assurance for the rough-cut capacity planning process using standard supply chain technology and is responsible for rough-cut capacity planning results for the facility.

This position plays a key role in manpower and capacity planning at the facility, and actively leads personnel in constraint analysis and resolution efforts. Leads facility efforts to build strong partnerships involving complex relationships and networks of facility and external resources at all functional and organizational levels. Incumbent operates under limited direction with input and participative direction from other staff managers.

This position is involved in significant conflict resolution/management between departments and/or individuals with conflicting objectives, and proactively and professionally addresses conflicts using governing committees, common process adherence, driving metrics alignment and strong business case development.

**Basic Qualifications**

BS degree in engineering

Supply chain experience.

Advanced knowledge of material control, supply chain planning, supply chain performance, logistics, parts distribution, inventory control, manufacturing engineering, operations or transportation

Bilingual (Fluent English/Spanish)

SAP Production Planning / Sales and Distribution

Excellent interpersonal, teamwork, organization, negotiation, conflict resolution and communication skills

Proactive

**Final details**

**All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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