Master Scheduler
Job Description
Job title: Master Scheduler
Company: GKN Aerospace
Job description: Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.
GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 15,000 employees across 41 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers. There are no limits to where you can take your career.
Job Summary
It’s great to know you’re making a difference to the future of aviation! Whatever part you play you’ll be helping us deliver operational excellence to our customers. Sitting across our three business lines; Civil, Defence and Engines at our East Cowes manufacturing plants you’ll do just that. Established in 1901, one of our older production sites with a workforce of circa 800 employees. Our East Cowes plants, Isle of Wight are where we design, manufacture, test and repair high performance structures and systems. We have two facilities on the Island; Falcon Yard, Ferry Road and Osborne Site, Saunders Way. Both locations employ the company’s distinct competencies in major assemblies and composite structures for the global aerospace market. Our customer base includes Airbus, Astronics, BAE Systems, Boeing, Bombardier Aerospace, Cessna, Cobham, Honeywell, Leonardo, Lockheed Martin, Rolls Royce and Triumph.
As the Master Production Scheduler you’ll join the Supply Chain team reporting to the Planning Manager and based at our Cowes Manufacturing site. You’ll be responsible for the management of the weekly Master Production Schedule (MPS) in order to balance demand and supply and maintaining 52 weeks visibility. Orchestrate the cross-functional MPS activities following the GKN Aerospace standard including running site MPS meetings. You’ll provide clear communication of enablement issues affecting MPS success and responsible for the generation and communication of MPS related KPI’s.
Job Responsibilities
- Create and maintain schedules to deliver in line with Programmes’ requirements while maintaining Inventory targets.
- Schedule production for specified products and production lines understanding all the physical and manning constraints.
- Ensure that MPS: Is feasible and fully committed by the Operations Group Leaders; Includes all phase-in/out as well as new programmes development/prototyping; Is based on agreed working calendar and includes all planned downtime (Holiday, routine maintenance, Line closures, etc.); Is in line with materials and commercial enablement; Production Past Dues are re-scheduled weekly
- Manage input for Material Requirement Planning ERP system.
- Proactively communicate/escalate to the management team potential MPS issues/constraints to trigger preventive actions in order to mitigate supply failure risk,
- Support Supply Chain Manager in forecasting Inventory levels in order to optimize/challenge current status and search for improvement opportunities,
- Provide communication/feedback to Programmes in case of any supply issues and also in order to improve Forecast accuracy including recovery plans where required.
- Liaise with Programmes/Commercial to manage repairs demand into production schedule.
- Ensure relevant KPI’s are monitored and communicated in a sustainable way (e.g.: Master Schedule Adherence, Customer Past Dues).
- Support continuous improvement projects/activities.
- Reschedule all production orders using mass or discrete scheduling process with data from production line.
- Represent requirement of planning function in change management process relating to new parts, Development parts or revisions to existing materials
Job Qualifications
Suitable candidates will be able to demonstrate the following:
Essential:
- Good standard of secondary education to include GCSE (or equivalent) grade C/level 4 or above in Maths
- Experience of working within a supply chain or manufacturing environment, including data management
- Understanding of Material Requirement Planning, master data and processing environment.
- Demonstrated competent Excel skills
Desirable:
- Material Requirement Planning knowledge within an ERP based business (Cowes use LN Baan)
- Supply chain experience within a manufacturing environment
- Experience within the Aerospace industry
- Understanding of Health and safety, quality, traceability and lean principles within a production environment
- Demonstrated advanced excel skills
We are looking for people who want to make a difference, talented members with the skills and passions to become the best of the future in what they do. The Master Production Scheduler will be an excellent communicator as you’ll work cross-functionally within the business. The successful person will have good attention to detail and excellent organisation skills. You’ll be open and honest, one of our cultural principles and fully motivated to succeed as an individual and collaborate with the team.
We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?
A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working
Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.
We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.
We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.
Expected salary:
Location: East Cowes, Isle of Wight
