Master Scheduler
A growing specialty manufacturer in Bloomington is seeking a Master Scheduler to take ownership of long-range production and capacity planning across a highly customized, engineer-to-order environment.
This is not a role centered on maintaining a static schedule. Projects can remain active for 6-24 months, customer timelines can shift, outside-vendor capacity varies, and production priorities routinely need to be re-calibrated. The Master Scheduler will become the internal authority on what the organization can realistically produce and when.
This is an opportunity to build a planning function rather than simply maintain one, with visibility into broader operations leadership as the business grows.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain the master production schedule across the full project portfolio
- Model capacity across internal work centers and outside manufacturing partners
- Identify constraints, critical paths, and schedule conflicts months before they affect delivery
- Re-sequence work and develop realistic alternatives as project requirements change
- Translate committed delivery dates into executable production and material plans
- Maintain scheduling data, routings, lead times, capacity assumptions, and related ERP inputs
- Partner with project management, purchasing, and operations to establish achievable commitments
Desired Skills and Experience
- 5+ years of production planning or scheduling experience
- Background in make-to-order, engineer-to-order, custom fabrication, or similarly variable manufacturing
- Hands-on finite-capacity, constraint-based, or multi-resource planning experience
- Strong ERP/MRP, Excel, and analytical problem-solving skills
- Comfortable challenging assumptions and making decisions in an environment with ambiguity
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