Master Production Scheduling Manager - Industrial

This role will lead and manage a team of master production schedulers responsible for ensuring accurate and efficient schedules across multiple manufacturing sites. Individual and team plans and controls master scheduling activities, and as required personally schedule one or more sites. Balancing production with inventory requirements, as well as optimizing capacity utilization via capacity planning are core responsibilities of role. Strategic input during monthly flash and annual budgeting process is required. The individual is tasked with recruiting, developing, and leading talent to support business objectives.

Additional Information

The travel for this positions is 10%

This role is not remote/hybrid. This role will report to Sherwin-Williams Global Headquarters located at 1 Sherwin Way, Cleveland, OH 44113.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company’s staff, employees, and business relationships.

• Lead and manage the Master Production Scheduling team for the USCA Industrial Region, ensuring accurate and efficient scheduling across multiple manufacturing plants.  
• Plan and control all Master Production Scheduling activities for assigned plants, and when required, personally master schedule one or more plants to meet business needs.  
• Balance production and inventory requirements to achieve service level targets, inventory turn goals, and optimal capacity utilization.  
• Drive capacity planning by proactively identifying constraints and assisting Operations or Sourcing to implement corrective actions such as overtime, equipment adjustments, expedited processes, production help, or resourcing. 
• Provide strategic input to support the Region’s monthly flash and annual budget processes, directly impacting finished goods and raw material inventories, transportation, and overall supply chain costs.  
• Expertise in Master Production Scheduling across multiple plants. 
• Strong knowledge of BoB or BIOS ERP tools, including but not limited to Blue Yonder, Oracle, AOM, QAD, MES, BI4 and Tableau reporting. 
• Ability to analyze production constraints and develop optimized scheduling solutions to meet service level, inventory, and capacity goals. 

Minimum Requirements:

• Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age
• Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future (e.g., OPT, CPT, H1B, EB-1,etc.)
• Must have Bachelor’s degree or higher or 10 years of experience in Supply Chain, Customer Service, or Operations 
• Must have at least five (5) years of experience in Supply Chain, Customer Service, or Operations 
• Must have advanced analytical and problem-solving skills for complex scenario planning
• Must have at least year of work experience using Microsoft Excel, including writing formulas, formatting and sorting data, creating pivot tables, and importing/exportin excel data to and from proprietary software

Preferred Qualification: 

• Have a Bachelor’s degree or higher in supply chain field  
• Have APICS certification  
• Have at least seven (7) years of work experience in Supply Chain field  
• Have at least five (5) years of experience in leadership role(s), supervising other, or leading teams
• Have at least one (1) year of work experience applying continuous improvement tools such as Six Sigma, 5-S, Lean Manufacturing, Transactional Lean, etc.  
• Have experience with Procurement, Technical or Manufacturing experience within the coatings industry. 

At Sherwin-Williams, our purpose is to inspire and improve the world by coloring and protecting what matters. Our paints, coatings and innovative solutions make the places and spaces in our world brighter and stronger. Your skills, talent and passion make it possible to live this purpose, and for customers and our business to achieve great results. Sherwin-Williams is a place that takes its stability, growth and momentum and translates it to possibility for our people. Our people are behind the strength of our success, and we invest and support you in:

Life … with rewards, benefits and the flexibility to enhance your health and well-being
Career … with opportunities to learn, develop new skills and grow your contribution
Connection … with an inclusive team and commitment to our own and broader communities
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