Master Scheduling Manager

**Career Area**:Manufacturing & Supply Chain**:**Your Work Shapes the World**Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in - the roads, hospitals, homes and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us.**Jon Purpose**:To develop and manage a facility / product group master scheduling process that is innovative and 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 across velocity and order-to-delivery.**Job Related Statistics**:- Inventory Dollars / Turns - performing to 100% of annual corporate targets- Committed Ship Date Conformance - Performing to 100% of annual corporate targets- Build to Plan - performing 100% to annual corporate targets- Facility Annual Sales: $1B to $5B- Personnel: Up to 15 Mgmt. and Salaried, up to 25 Hourly, And up to 15 Contract/Agency**Job Duties**:Direct Reports include Production Schedulers, Scheduling Analysts and Order Analysts. 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 facility cash flow and inventory turns goals and works directly with the Demand and Orders Manager at the leadership level 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 incumbent’s facility and / or business division.Incumbent leads master scheduling for the facility, working closely with other functions, ie., facility leadership, marketing, product support, manufacturing, engineering, logistics, and external business partners.This position leads efforts in conjunction with marketing/sales to develop an accurate forecast and economical inventory/customer satisfaction plan. Incumbent uses information gathered from these efforts to develop an innovative, flexible approach to meet customer satisfaction requirements.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.Incumbent leads efforts to develop and implement a strategy for the effective coordination of all Engineering Data Notification (EDN) initiatives and leads collaboration efforts with facility supply chain planning to ensure alignment with new product introduction, engineering and product change control processes with master scheduling and capacity planning.The incumbent leads efforts to develop and refine a CRP system, which, through simulation techniques, identifies manpower, process or tooling bottlenecks and provides alternative company-wide solutions that optimize utilization of resources.This position plays a key role in manpower and capacity planning at the facility, and actively leads personnel in constraint analysis and resolution efforts.This position 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 through the use of governing committees, common process adherence, driving metrics ali