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Production Scheduler
4 weeks ago
Career Area:
Manufacturing
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.
About EPD
Caterpillar's Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back-up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centers, municipalities, and more. With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world-class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands. We're committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations
Role Definition
We have a very exciting opportunity to join our growing Production scheduling group in our EPD Power Solutions team, our business is growing significantly and as we onboard new suppliers and new capacity we want a highly motivated, high energy production planner to help us manage the demand across multiple sources. This person will schedule, coordinate, and control the production schedules for multiple manufacturing footprints they will review and manage the production process efficiency and balance requirements as needed.
Responsibilities
• Analyzing and troubleshooting planned production scheduling problems.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve product-related issues and incorporate customer and business requirements.
• Directing complex production schedules; reviewing workflow of production workers, inventory levels, capacity constraints, machine breakdowns, product quality, etc. to ensure operational excellence.
Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired
Skill Descriptors
Manufacturing Requirements Planning (MRP): Knowledge of the processes, practices and systems used in manufacturing requirements planning (MRP); ability to optimize planning for manufacturing cycles and ensure capacity and materials availability. Knowledge of SAP, EOMP, MRC and other CAT systems would be desirable.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Monitors total plant production scheduling vis-a-vis orders.
• Evaluates considerations for synchronizing demand for products with production capabilities.
• Participates in sequencing work to meet targeted delivery dates for multiple and critical orders.
• Coordinates capacity and materials planning for net demand within a planning period.
• Adjusts plans based on sales forecasts, custom orders and demand-driven orders.
Production Scheduling and Control: Knowledge of procedures and tools for scheduling and controlling production runs; ability to utilize knowledge of daily manufacturing processes to assure quality deliverables. Experience in Microsoft Excel, Power BI and tableau would be highly desirable.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Manages the job cycle to ensure completion of jobs according to agreed-upon schedules.
• Communicates with customers and sales staff on scheduled and unscheduled production work.
• Resolves critical or costly workflow problem areas and recommends improvements.
• Produces master schedules for overall plant activities; shows all dependencies and contingencies.
Forecasting: Knowledge of forecasting tools, approaches and practices; ability to determine product demand and estimate production requirements and loads.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Participates in preparation of short-term forecasts for a specific product or site.
• Gathers and analyzes demand data with specific tools and procedures.
• Locates useful information and sources of input used in weekly, monthly and quarterly forecasts.
• Researches seasonal trends for a major product or product line.
• Explains common types of business conditions and activities that impact demand.
Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities.
• Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development.
• Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans.
• Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan.
Process Management: Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Employs process flows, cycle time, process time and waste concepts as appropriate.
• Walks through steps, decisions, measurements, dependencies and hand-offs for a specific process.
• Creates process flow or work flow diagrams.
• Documents types of process decisions and potential impact of each decision.
• Identifies and monitors common process bottlenecks.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
• Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
• Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
• Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
• Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
• Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.
Additional Information:
- Location: Griffin, Georgia, Peoria, Illinois, Lafayette, Indiana
- Relocation: Relocation is not offered for this position.
- Sponsorship: Visa Sponsorship is not offered for this position.
- Travel: Up to 25% travel
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus. Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays.
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Posting Dates:
August 9, August 25, 2024
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
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