Master Scheduler - Poromerics

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Position Summary / Overview
 

The Master Production Scheduler is accountable for developing, maintaining, and communicating a single, integrated Master Production Schedule for the Poromerics unit at CMP Technologies. As a manufacturing site supplying a global network, Newark supports dependent demand requirements from multiple regions and manufacturing locations. The role serves as the focal point between commercial, customer service, manufacturing operations, product line marketing, and supply chain team to ensure customer requirements, inventory objectives, and operational constraints are properly reflected in the Master Schedule.
 

The position translates the monthly Balanced Plan into a capacity-feasible and executable weekly production plan while ensuring alignment with planned maintenance activities, production trials, qualification activities, resource constraints, inventory policies, and business priorities. The role owns the accuracy and validation of planning data used within the Master Scheduling horizon and facilitates the cross-functional alignment required to continuously validate assumptions and maintain schedule feasibility.
 

Key Responsibilities
 

Master Production Scheduling

• Develop, maintain, and publish a Master Production Schedule for the Poromerics business.

• Translate the Balanced Plan into a feasible production and inventory plan.

• Evaluate monthly and weekly production requirements and inventory targets.

• Balance customer demand, inventory policies, manufacturing constraints, and available capacity.

• Ensure the transition from volume planning to detailed scheduling is executable and stable.

• Conduct scenario analysis and evaluate alternatives to support business decisions.

• Provide recommendations regarding production prioritization, inventory recovery, and constraint management.

• Maintain a valid time-phased schedule and communicate plan changes to stakeholders.
   

Cross-Functional Schedule Validation

• Lead weekly cross-functional reviews of the Master Schedule with relevant functions.

• Validate production assumptions related to planned maintenance, asset availability, trials and qualification activities, inventory recovery plans, material constraints, and labor availability.

• Ensure production requirements are actively challenged and reconciled prior to publication of the Master Schedule.

• Escalate risks, assumptions, and business impacts whenever demand requirements exceed realistic manufacturing capability.

• Drive alignment between production plans and downstream requirements from global receiving sites.
   

Capacity & Constraint Management

• Perform rough-cut capacity planning and identify future capacity gaps.

• Evaluate machine, labor, material, and operational constraints.

• Identify demand-capacity imbalances and develop mitigation strategies.

• Drive supply requirements smoothing and level-loading to improve schedule stability.

• Provide decision-ready recommendations to leadership.
   

OMP Planning Process Ownership

• Act as the business owner of the Poromerics Master Scheduling process within OMP.

• Review solver outputs and evaluate planning exceptions.

• Monitor delayed demand, inventory conflicts, infeasibilities, and planning exceptions.

• Maintain planning parameters, rules, and policies within approved governance frameworks.

• Support continuous improvement of planning processes and planning-system utilization.

• Own business process execution.
   

Planning Data Validation & Schedule Feasibility

• Own validation of planning data and planning assumptions for the Poromerics unit

• Validate pla