Production Scheduler

About the Voith Group

The Voith Group is a global technology company. With its broad portfolio of systems, products, services and digital applications, Voith sets standards in the markets of energy, paper, raw materials and transport & automotive. Founded in 1867, the company today has around 22,000 employees, sales of € 5,5 billion and locations in over 60 countries worldwide and is thus one of the larger family-owned companies in Europe.

Voith Paper is hiring for:

Production Scheduler 
West Monroe, LA
 

 

Interested to learn about Voith? Check out our video "Voith careers" on YouTube.

 

Reasons you’ll love working here: 

• Flexibility with Work/Life Balance 
• Competitive Compensation and Benefits Package 
• 401K with generous company match 
• Climate-Neutral Footprint Worldwide 
• Tuition reimbursement 

 

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary liaison between Customer Service Engineers (CSEs), Mechanical and Cover shop supervisors to develop, maintain, and submit project schedules per contractual requirements.
• Coordinate with Mechanical and Cover shop managers and engage employees to incorporate input and secure commitment to project schedules in alignment with internal Voith processes and systems.
• Key interface between CSE’s, mechanical shop/ cover shop teams / department heads to ensure projects schedules are fully up to date according to actual progress achieved
• Report out KPI’s to ensure completion of the project dates as determined
• Provide early warnings when project dates may deviate or may not be met 
• Collaborate with project teams / department heads to identify critical path activities, potential bottleneck situations, as well as opportunities. 
• Maintain accurate data in key systems (e.g. JDE, Box) and ensure system updates for data integrity. 
• Analyze KPIs and escalate critical scheduling issues to CSEs and shop management.
• Support CSE’s with customer reports and meetings related to scheduling and delivery performance.
• Critically review a schedule and apply concepts of resource loading, cost loading, critical path, fast track (rush jobs) to get an optimal time schedule.
• Create timelines on critical, priority jobs

 

Requirements:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in project scheduling and/or project management
• Experience with ERP systems such as JDE or SAP preferred
• Production planning experience in custom manufactured products and/or Engineer-to-order business experience 
• Background in project, construction and/or proposal scheduling and management
•  Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate across teams
•  Effective negotiation and conflict resolution skills, with a proactive approach to problem-solving. 

 

 Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the key actions of job.
• The employee is also required to talk and/or hear in an office setting (noise level is low) and shop environment (noise level high). The employee is frequently required to stand and walk in an office/shop environment from 4-8 hours. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms; lift; stoop, or crouch.
• The vision requirements: close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception and adjust focus.
• The job may require occasional travel.

 

 

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