Planning and Scheduling Manager at Amtec Human Capital

Planning and Scheduling Manager  Inland Empire, CA  $115k-$130k

Summary
The Planning & Scheduling Manager is responsible for overseeing the development, preparation, and maintenance of the company’s master project schedule and production sub-schedules to guide the activities and resources to achieve maximum efficiency and meet output and timeline objectives, and has 3 direct reports (planners).

Responsibilities

• Drive change while promoting improvement to the current Master Schedule with a focus on real time information.
• Hires and trains staff in assigned department.
• Organizes and oversees the assigned tasks of department staff.
• Overall schedule responsibility from management through driving execution for the company. 
• Maintains the Master Project Schedule as well as each departments sub-schedule in accordance with production capacity and customer requirements; updates and issues Master Project Schedule with current status of all department deliverables and completion dates. 
• Determines which facility product lines are manufactured at. 
• Establishes, measures, monitors, and adjust capacity levels to execute all manufacturing and engineering design schedules.
• Performs capacity planning activities and performance analysis against capacity and plan to determine effectiveness of overall schedule
• Monitors progress against scheduled activities and identifies performance variances to facilitate focus on critical areas; develops and implements work-around or recovery plans to meet schedule requirements. 
• Develop key milestones that must be completed before a project will move forward in the process. 
• Utilizes ERP systems, planning and scheduling software, or other databases tools to develop and maintain master schedules and production sub-schedules.
• Establishes KPIs and reports regarding performance to the production plan.  

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or related field; relevant experience may be substituted in place for education.
• At least 5 years of experience in a manufacturing environment related to operations management, project management, or engineering.
• At least 2 years of leadership experience.
• Solid Microsoft Excel Skills and Microsoft Project Skills. 
• Ability to look at an overall schedule and identify risks with a critical thinking approach and discuss with supporting departments to develop a resolution.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience leading people and obtaining results through others, with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be able to manage multi projects and have a high level of detail and accuracy.