Master Scheduler

Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.

GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.35 bn.in 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Job Summary

Responsible for the management of the weekly production plan in order to balance demand and supply within available capacity and set Inventory targets.

Orchestrate the cross-functional MPS activities following the GKN Aerospace standard.

Job Responsibilities

• Ensuring the efficient and effective scheduling of maintenance operations, optimizing resource allocation, and enhancing overall productivity in line with customer demands and organizational goals.
• Work closely with various departments, including production, procurement, and engineering, to create, maintain, and adjust schedules that balance capacity and workload while minimizing delays and maximizing safety and quality.
• Create and maintain the production schedules according to Programmes’ customers’ requirements while maintaining Inventory targets and optimizing capacity for each processes.
• Schedule production for all related products in line with the understanding of all and manning constraints.
• Ensure that Master Production Schedule:

• Is feasible and balanced against resource / demonstrated capacity.,
• Includes all phase-in / out, transfer plans as well as new programmes development.
• Is based on agreed working calendar and includes all planned downtime (Holiday, routine maintenance, Line closures, etc.)
• Production Past Dues are re-scheduled
• Monitor output/performance daily against the schedule, challenging and understanding whenever performance differs from standard.
• Maximize shared manufacturing resource output/utilization while ensuring full coherence with MPS product mix, volumes and required shipment dates.
• Proactively communicate/escalate to the management team any potential MPS issues / constraints to trigger preventive actions in order to mitigate supply failure risk.
• Support the team in analyzing WIP levels in order to optimize / challenge current status and search for improvement opportunities.
• Provide communication / feedback to Group Leader and Team Leaders in case of any potential supply issues and also in order to improve Forecast accuracy.
• Ensure relevant KPI’s are monitored and PDCA approach applied with A3 in case of deviation to ensure targets are delivered in a sustainable way (e.g.: Master Schedule Adherence, Customer Past Dues, Days Inventory Outstanding),
• Support continuous improvement projects / activities,
• Ensure required information is up to date for all planning and scheduling purposes.
• To update the shipment vs plan visual dashboard daily
  
  

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 2-4 years’ experience in production scheduling, operations planning, or a similar role within the MRO or manufacturing industry.
• Strong understanding of MRO processes, including maintenance workflows, resource planning, and inventory management.
• Early career graduate for MPS lead roles
• APICS CPIM Part1
• Expert level for: Operations Supply Planning / MPS / MRP
• Practitioner level for Forecasting & Demand Planning, Daily Scheduling & Execution, Master Data Mgt., Inventory Management, Internal Flow & Warehousing+ “soft skills” from leadership framework
• Graduate level
• Entry level for Strategic Planning, Transportation Management, Inbound / Outbound Flow, End-to-End visibility and data exchange, Industry & Product acumen, Project Management, Leveraging IT solutions, Lean Mind-set & Business Excellence, People Excellence, Business Process Excellence, Operations Excellence
  
  

We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?

A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working

Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.

We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.

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