Master Production Scheduler (Brecksville, OH, US, 44141)

Job Title: Master Production Scheduler

Job Location: Brecksville, Ohio

Job type: Full-Time

Type of role: Hybrid

About Lubrizol

The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.

Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Master Production Scheduler

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the chemical industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

What You'll Do:

As a Master Production Scheduler, you'll be at the forefront of our innovation, driving Lubrizol's supply chain and production management. You'll collaborate with a diverse group of passionate individuals to deliver sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. The Master Production Scheduler plays a critical role. The Master Production Scheduler's responsibility is to ensure the efficient and effective short to mid-term planning (1 to 90 days) to support customer and business needs, while optimizing assets and minimizing costs. Master Production Scheduler must have a strong grasp of production planning and scheduling principles, as well as the ability to adapt to changing demands and circumstances while maintaining a focus on efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

What We're Looking For:

• Develop and maintain a detailed production plan based on demand forecasts, sales orders, and inventory levels. This involves analyzing historical data and market trends to make accurate predictions.

• Evaluate the rough-cut capacity planning of facilities and assets to ensure that production volumes align with available resources.

• Monitor and manage inventory levels to strike a balance between customer demand and carrying costs. Minimize excess inventory and ensure adequate safety stock.

• Utilize data analytics to identify trends, demand patterns, and potential bottlenecks in production. Make informed planning decisions based on data-driven insights.

• Provides feedback and direction to the schedulers to provide operations with an attainable and executable schedule.

• Reviews production schedules and related information and confers with department supervisors to determine material requirements to identify overdue materials and to track material.

• Establishes priorities for specific customer orders.

• Confers with department supervisors to determine progress of work and to provide information on changes in delivery dates to the customer experience team

• Requisitions material and establishes sequential delivery dates to departments, according to job order priorities and material availability.

• Confers with vendors to obtain product or service information such as price, availability, and delivery schedules.

• Prepares purchase orders with approved suppliers and/or 3rd party manufacturers

• Maintains procurement records such as items or services purchased, delivery, product quality or performance, and inventories.

• Revises schedule according to work order specifications, established priorities, and availability or capability of workers, parts, material, machines, and equipment.

• Identifies, executes, and communicates potential materials that need to be placed on allocation because of constraints dues to raw materials, capacity, and demand exceeding capacity.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including customer experience, regional counterparts, sales, marketing, procurement, and production, to ensure alignment with the production plan. Address issues, changes, and escalations as needed.

Skills That Make a Difference:

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, operations management, or a related field. A master's degree considered a plus.

• CPIM certification considered a plus.

• 2+ years of experience in production scheduling, preferably in a manufacturing or production environment considered a plus.

• Strong knowledge of production processes, capacity planning, and inventory management.

• Proficiency in using scheduling software, ERP systems, and data analysis tools.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with various teams.

• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

• Knowledge of lean manufacturing principles and continuous improvement methodologies is a plus.

• Strong organizational and multitasking abilities.

• Attention to detail and a focus on accuracy.

Perks and Rewards That Inspire:

• Competitive salary with performance-based bonus plans

• 401k Match plus Age Weighted Defined Contribution

• Competitive medical, dental and vision offerings

• Health Savings Account

• Paid Holidays, Vacation, Parental Leave

Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together!

It's an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success - not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities.

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world's most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today.

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic.

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