Scheduler

Join our fast-paced Industrial Aftermarket Filter (IAF) business unit as a Scheduler, where your expertise will be key to driving seamless production flow and exceeding customer expectations. In this high-volume, dynamic environment, you'll own the planning process-crafting innovative schedules, managing complex production plans, and ensuring materials and resources align perfectly to meet aggressive business and customer goals. Your strategic thinking and proactive problem-solving will power our success and keep the entire value stream running like clockwork.

1. Command Production Priorities: Take charge by evaluating customer expedite requests and tight lead-time orders, skillfully balancing production capabilities with business plans and customer needs to keep everything on track.
2. Collaborate to Solve Complex Challenges: Partner with cross-functional teams and management to tackle unique, high-impact issues that could affect sales and delivery. Lead continuous improvement efforts by recommending smart, game-changing enhancements to our planning processes.
3. Be the Go-To Production Expert: Serve as the primary internal point of contact for everything production-related-from schedule updates and shipping info to handling returned materials-while dynamically adjusting the master schedule to meet evolving demands.
4. Orchestrate Production Plans: Develop and publish detailed, actionable production schedules that clearly outline products, equipment, sequences, and deadlines. Adapt quickly to material shortages or capacity constraints by proposing creative alternatives that keep the business moving forward.
5. Drive Performance Tracking: Monitor and report on schedule adherence with precision, analyzing data to identify bottlenecks and delivering effective solutions that boost efficiency.
6. Stay Ahead with Industry Insights: Continuously sharpen your skills and knowledge by engaging in workshops, networking, and staying plugged into the latest industry trends and technologies.
7. Lead Continuous Improvement Initiatives: Play an active role in High Performing Teams (HPTs), driving innovation and process improvements that elevate operational excellence across the division and with suppliers and customers alike.
8. Share Your Expertise: Be a catalyst for team success by sharing your specialized knowledge and contributing to cross-functional projects that push the business forward.
9. Champion Customer Satisfaction: Support and enhance customer response and delivery metrics-ensuring timely acknowledgments, rapid responses, and on-time fulfillment that keep our customers delighted.

Education and Experience

• Minimum: High School Diploma with at least 3 years of manufacturing experience required.
• Preferred: Associate or Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Certification: APICS certification is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated success in performing essential production planning functions, typically gained through 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in manufacturing resource planning or related roles.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Advanced expertise in manufacturing resource planning (MRP) principles, automated systems, and industry best practices, including regulations and policies.
• Proven ability to lead and implement continuous improvement methodologies such as pull systems and Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing.
• Thorough understanding of MRP systems and their interface operations, with proficiency in standard business software applications.
• Familiarity with indented bills of material, manufacturing process instructions, and product drawings.
• Strong analytical skills to tackle complex problems requiring in-depth evaluation, negotiation, and innovative solutions.
• Capability to solve a wide range of unique and complex problems, often requiring new approaches or modifications to standard procedures.
• Skilled in reading, analyzing, and interpreting complex policies and recommending procedural improvements.
• Ability to manage a high volume of inquiries from internal customers efficiently and professionally.
• Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to deliver persuasive presentations and speeches on complex topics to senior management, customers, and boards of directors.
• Proficient in problem definition, data collection, fact establishment, and drawing valid conclusions.
• Demonstrated commitment to teamwork, goal-setting, performance feedback, and continuous self-development.

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies and systems. For more than a century the company has been enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow. Learn more at www.parker.com or @parkerhannifin.

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