Production Scheduler

About us

We see a future where everyone can live and move without limitations. That’s why we are developing technologies, systems and concepts that make vehicles safer and cleaner, while serving our communities, the planet and, above all, people.

 

Forward. For all.

 

Group Summary

As an engineering and manufacturing partner, Magna’s Complete Vehicle group helps traditional OEMs and new entrants to bring their automotive visions to life. At Magna, you will work in an innovative, international and dynamic team, always pursuing the goal of delivering high-quality products. We work in a diverse environment with global development opportunities. Together with our employees we constantly strive to create a better world of mobility. 

 

About the Role

• Responsible for planning and controlling of a all vehicle orders produced at the plant, from program coordination with the OEM to on-time vehicle handover to the OEM.
• Guarantees an optimized production process via program planning, order planning, order scheduling and order control and provides the required data based on vehicle orders.
• Supports a stable production process by permanently optimizing vehicle planning, thereby ensuring correct material requirement forecasts to suppliers as well as stable schedules for production in the individual technology areas.

Your Responsibilities

Program Planning

• Ensuring a buildable production program by harmonizing OEM production program requests with plant capacities
• Based on the aligned production program ensuring regular transmission of a correlating order volume as well as updated forecast data by the OEM
• Definition of the production volume and the production days per month
• Control of the MS production program as well as the MS production calendar planning for US site

 

Order Segmentation

• Continuous supply of the plant with buildable vehicle orders and fixation of the planned assembly sequence within the scope of daily package formation
• Ensuring compliance with all known constraints, limitations, restrictions from suppliers as well as from production technologies
• Harmonization of production worker utilization by optimizing the planned production sequence

 

Order Scheduling

• Planning of the daily production volume per technology area to ensure the OEM production program requests
• Mapping of the actual production layouts as well as the daily production unit count targets per technology area in the ERP system
• Permanent optimization of vehicle planning in the ERP system to ensure correct order scheduling in all production technologies of the plant as well as correct material requirement forecasts to the suppliers

 

Order Control

• Cross-technology, shift accompanying control of vehicle production in the plant incl. blocking / prioritization of vehicle orders as well as provision of all required data (evaluations) on the basis of the vehicle orders
• Ensuring sequence stability at the time of the start assembly
• Monitoring of on-time delivery to the OEM at the time of vehicle handover

Who we are looking for

• Apprenticeship diploma or similar skilled trade with commercial focus
• Several years of experience in SCM (in the automotive industry)
• Basic knowledge of logistics processes and SQL programming (database analyses)
• Basic knowledge of SAP
• Ramp-up Management
• Customer system/process knowledge
• Emergency process handling

Your preferred qualifications

• Deployment