Manager, Operations Scheduling and Control

About ITT:

ITT is an industrial manufacturer of critical, engineered components that serve fast-growing end markets in transportation, flow, energy, aerospace and defense. The company’s differentiation is sustained through a combination of several factors: execution, the quality of its leadership and our DNA as an engineering leader. We have a clear purpose as an organization: to provide our customers with cutting-edge solutions to help solve their most critical needs.

 The company generated 2023 revenues of $3.3 billion and is comprised of three distinct segments: 

• Motion Technologies ($1.5B revenue) is a global leader in brake pads, shock absorbers and sealing solutions for the automotive and rail markets
• Industrial Process ($1.1B revenue) is a global leader in centrifugal and twin-screw pumps for the chemical, energy, mining and industrial markets
• Connect & Control Technologies ($0.7B) is a niche player in harsh environment connectors and control components in critical applications for the aerospace, defense and industrial markets.

 ITT is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut with over 10,000 employees in more than 35 countries and sales in approximately 125 countries.

Position Summary

ITT Goulds Pumps is looking for a Manager of Operations Scheduling to join their team in Seneca Falls, NY. This role will focus on:

• Managing Pump/LE/RE/BKPO load: Capacity planning, level loading, direct procurement / manufacturing activities to ensure schedule attainment.
• Creating and managing the revenue forecast for all model lines.  Help develop LEAN processes in Materials management to support customer and on-time performance goals.
• Working extensively with Marketing Product Managers, Inventory Planning, Finance, General Manager, and GSC, Buyers, Schedulers to identify inventory requirements and to support model line lead-times.
• Leading and managing personnel in support of their job responsibilities.
• Overseeing the team responsible for processing and management of all pump and repair orders tied to model line splits. Assuring that all necessary steps are performed for the planning, releasing, material movement and eventual shipment of orders to meet Customer requirements.
• Creating and publishing daily and weekly management reports.

The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience in a similar role and 3+ years of experience in a supervisory position.

Essential Responsibilities

• Expedite, negotiate, and re-prioritize internal and external suppliers to meet customer needs
• Plan and load capacity for factory & machining sub vendors. Direct responsibility for adherence to schedule for components and pumps.
• Work directly with Engineering, Production, Machining, Suppliers for schedule support. Support Sales and distribution with quoted lead times.
• Assist Project Managers in Project meetings when necessary. Serve in project teams, cross-functional teams, as needed to support continuous improvement and team building to meet customer and company objectives.
• Mentor team and develop common tools and practices for managing load.
• Assist in reducing cycle time and increasing on time performance/revenue.
• Drive Excess and Obsolete inventory down.
• Maintain the highest level of quality to customer service requirements.  Final ownership to pursue and resolve all issues that compromises this objective.
• Improve/Drive on time performance for pumps, parts, breakdowns and quick ship orders.
• Interface with vendors, machining, stockroom, assembly, shipping, engineering, contract administration, project managers, etc. to identify and drive to resolution issues and corrective actions involving all functional areas to insure release performance. Drive corrective action to all issues to ensure sustained performance success.
• Ensure that procedures are intact to support proper handling of discrepancies.
• Improve inventory control, levels, processes and audit periodically.
• Monitor workloads of team to help identify problem areas that require corrective action.
• Assure both customer needs and commitments are met
• Assure Financial & OTP requirements for the organization are met. Drive release to assembly OPT to 90% for all Products.
• Supervision for all materials team activities that interface in the pump and repair value stream. The following are activities that the Materials Manager is responsible for: Order Release; Identify and resolve internal bottleneck operations; Problem resolution; Maintenance of work orders, insure accurate schedule maintenance on production and purchase orders; Monitor shop loads/capacity – take appropriate action to correct over/under