Manufacturing Production Scheduling Manager

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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!

We are looking for top talent to build and scale the next generation of technologies, products and services to help our customers build a better—more sustainable—world. We need self-motivated, intelligent and team-oriented individuals to make our plans a reality. Individuals with high emotional intelligence, humility and openness to discovery will thrive in the teams we are building.

Job Summary:

The production scheduling manager oversees one or more facilities, product lines and teams.  Supervises, schedules, coordinates, and controls the production schedules; reviews and manages the production process efficiency and quality.

What you will do:

• Analyzing and troubleshooting planned production scheduling problems; recommending process improvements to optimize the team efficiency and scheduling process.

• 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.

• Provides inputs to the Sales and Operations Planning cycle, including supply commitments based on overall capacity in the supply chain.

• Managing Production Planning & Scheduling for the Griffin Electric Power Division (EPD)  and up to eight Packaging Suppliers.

• Running daily reports, perform V-Lookups, and update Power BI dashboards.

• Using order management system to pull new customer orders.

• Updating all required information to ensure orders contain the correct shipping information  

What you will have:

• Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Extensive Experience and knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.

• Effective Communications: Expert 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. Ability to lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather critical data needed to create build plans.

• Problem Solving: Extensive experience and 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. Excellent decision-making skills and ability to make data-driven scheduling adjustments with a high confidence level. 

• Forecasting: Extensive experience and knowledge of forecasting tools, approaches and practices; ability to determine product demand and estimate production requirements and loads.

• Manufacturing Requirements Planning (MRP): Extensive, SME-level knowledge of the processes, practices and systems used in manufacturing requirements planning (MRP); ability t