Scheduling Leader - Ashland, LLC

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Scheduling Leader to join our Life Sciences team.  This position will be based in our Kearny, NJ location.  This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the nutraceutical function.  This position will report to the Plant Manager at Kearny.

THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE POSITION INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING.

• Ensure Ashland corporate and site-specific safety policies; react to unsafe environments, behaviors, and reports. 

• Ensure compliance with Ashland corporate and site-specific food safety policies.

• Develop and implement a daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly production scheduling system.

• Work with production to create and manage production schedules and optimize the use of assets.

• Partner closely with Customer Service to keep expected completion dates accurate in SAP as well as support customer requests for progress updates (meetings as well as spreadsheets).

• Work with commercial teams to project demand requirements for finished goods and raw materials to maintain targeted inventory levels and/or meet production needs

• Ensure team is issuing purchase requisition from BOM materials are delivered to procurement, track delivery dates to adjust long term plan

• Participate in Safety, Quality and Environmental initiatives that will contribute to compliance of State/Federal regulations and improve existing Ashland programs

• Conduct and/or participate in root cause/CAPA activities as designated

• Partner with material coordinator and warehouse manager to identify slow moving, expired, and other risk associated with raw ingredients and finished goods

• Track daily production against weekly goals, track finished product testing against customer expectation and proactively report delays and/or improvements to on time delivery

• 5% out-of-state travel for training, 15% local travel (within 20 miles) to visit and coordinate with other factories

• Report on metrics, identify gaps between target and performance, provide and execute action plan to bridge gaps

• Coordinate with operations to plan downtime for maintenance and improvement activities

• Other duties as assigned

IN ORDER TO BE QUALIFIED FOR THIS ROLE, YOU MUST POSSESS THE FOLLOWING:

•  Bachelor’s degree in STEM or business or relevant experience

• 10 years’ experience in professional production scheduling/demand forecasting/planning/supply chain environment using MRP & ERP systems

• Familiarity with MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook; expertise in MS Excel

THE FOLLOWING SKILL SETS ARE PREFERRED BY THE BUSINESS UNIT:

• Experience with SAP

• Proven self-starter with urgency for delivering results

• Strategic and tactical with a hands-on analytical approach

**Third party recruiters and agencies (“Agency”) should not contact employees of Ashland or its subsidiaries directly. Any resumes sent by an Agency to a hiring manager, recruiter or submitted to Ashland’s career portal are considered unsolicited and property of Ashland. Ashland will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume, unless the Agency has a signed contract with Ashland’s Human Resources/Procurement department in advance of submitting a candidate for consideration. Verbal and written approvals will not be considered a valid contract for service

In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland LLC. (NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow. Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, personal care and pharmaceutical. Visit www.ashland.com to see the innovations we offer.
 
At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch. In fact our people, employees, customers and vendors define who we are. They are the driving force behind everything we do.
 
Not only do we value our customers but we value our employees, and we work to offer them a dynamic and challenging environment. We hold ourselves to high standards at Ashland, and we value integrity and honesty.
 
Ashland has a history of attracting the best people and keeping them. The reasons are simple: industry competitive salary and benefits, pay-for-performance incentive plans and a diverse work environment where employees feel challenged and valued. People come to Ashland and stay. As a growing Fortune 500 specialty chemicals company, we offer opportunities for development and advancement throughout our global organization. Our values define who we are and what we care about as a company. If you are looking for a relationship with a company instead of simply a job, this may be a great fit.

Ashland is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation. 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. NOTE:  We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have a signed recruiting agreement in place to fill a specific position.