Master Scheduler

The Master Scheduler/Planne****r is responsible for working directly with customers to maintain forecasts, customer production schedules and customer orders.

Vanguard EMS, Inc. is in the service business. Even with Vanguard’s state of the art technology, vast manufacturing capability, and leading-edge information tools, we wake up every day thinking about how best to serve our customers, suppliers, and the communities in which we live.

What you’ll do:

• Communicate with customer to receive and understand forecasts.
• Input forecast to computer system and analyze the impact of changes.
• Prepare input for Sales Forecasting and Production Planning processes.
• Establish master production schedule. Maintain planning data including lot sizes, lead times, and capacity plans.
• Coordinate with Customer Product Specialist for quotes, ECO's and NPI.
• Communicate with customer to manage sales order changes.
• Provide priorities and resolve issues for stockroom, production, and shipping to meet customer requirements.
• Input, allocate, and release manufacturing orders.
• Analyze potential shortages to manufacturing orders and work with program team, purchasing, and production to determine action plan.
• Conduct weekly scheduling meeting with production and provide feedback to customer. Monitor daily commitments for completion.
• Perform analysis of potential excess and obsolete inventory and material availability.

Requirements

What you’ll need:

• Ability to develop and communicate plans and schedules.
• Ability to make conclusions and judgements about feasibility and impact of plans and requests.
• Positive attitude with the ability to work well under deadlines in a dynamic work environment.
• Ability to manage and analyze numerical data.
• Excellent oral communication skills to present plans, analysis, and conclusions.
• Good negotiating skills.
• Ability to assimilate large quantities of numeric and verbal data.
• Ability to work in a team environment with a wide range of functional areas including production, purchasing, customer service, and material handling.

Education and/or Experience

• High School Diploma, GED or Equivalent
• Experience Master Scheduling for an electronics company
• Strong working knowledge of ERP Systems, both at tactical and strategic levels