Senior Production Scheduler – Electric Power

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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!

Job Summary

Join a high-volume, fast-paced manufacturing environment where you’ll play a key role in optimizing production schedules and driving operational excellence. This position is responsible for analyzing and troubleshooting scheduling challenges, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring on-time delivery to meet customer and business goals. The ideal candidate is a proactive problem-solver with strong analytical and communication skills who thrives on balancing priorities and improving efficiency. 

What You Will Do:

• Analyze and troubleshoot production scheduling issues to support efficient manufacturing operations.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including operations, logistics, program management, engineering, and finance, to resolve product-related challenges and align with customer and business requirements.

• Develop and manage complex production schedules, considering workflow, inventory levels, capacity constraints, and product quality to ensure operational excellence.

• Monitor delivery timelines and capacity availability to meet production targets.

• Conduct scenario planning and “what-if” analyses to support proactive decision-making.

• Participate in weekly Global Solutions Timeline meetings to drive alignment, contribute to solution development, and support key decisions.

• Operate as an individual contributor within the EPD Global Solutions Supply Chain Team.

Degree Requirement

4-Year Degree or equivalent/relevant experience is preferred

What You Will Have

• Tactical and Strategic Planning: 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.

  • Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities.

  • Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development.

  • Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan.

  • Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans.

  • Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals, technical and business objectives.

  • Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan.

• Process Management: Working knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.

  • Employs process flows, cycle time, process time and waste concepts as appropriate.

  • Walks through steps, decisions, measurements, dependencies and hand-offs for a specific process.

  • Creates process flow or work flow diagrams.

  • Documents types of process decisions and potential impact of each decision.

  • Identifies and monitors common process bottlenecks.

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

  • Participates in preparation of short-term forecasts for a specific product or site.

  • Gathers and analyzes deman