Production Scheduler - Specialist, Scheduling

Overview

Celanese’s Engineered Materials business is seeking a dynamic and analytical Production Scheduler (Specialist, Scheduling) to support business objectives, customer expectations, and compliance with global processes and business rules. This role is responsible for developing and maintaining finite production schedules to ensure product availability and achieve targeted service levels across the business.

Key responsibilities include monitoring material inventories, tracking production progress, leading daily meetings with production teams, collaborating with planners in weekly alignment meetings, conducting root cause analyses, managing and responding to production alerts, and maintaining close communication with customer service, manufacturing, and raw material teams to ensure efficient operations.

This is an on-site position located at the Washington Works facility in Washington, West Virginia.

Responsibilities

• Convert the weekly level master production plan into daily production schedule and optimize the production sequence to meet defined objectives.
• Collaborate with manufacturing to optimize the schedule, handle execution level changes, and align on future maintenance plan / calendars and specific manufacturing requirements.
• Conduct scenario management based on exceptions and constraint violations.
• Collaborate with planning to mitigate any unplanned plant interruptions or to handle rush supply requests.
• Analyze scheduling metrics, conduct root cause analysis and report schedule performance.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders (Supply Planner/Master Production Scheduler, Warehouse/Logistics teams, Customer Service and Plant Operations Management) to mitigate any supply related risks.
• Maintain scheduling related master data , both in SAP and Advanced Planning System (Blue Yonder) (e.g., SKU-machine mappings, changeover matrices, run rates, minimum run sizes). Manage scheduling related master data as per set governance.
• Support improvements to local/global scheduling related projects or Blue Yonder tool improvements.

Competencies

• Anticipates and responds quickly to changes.
• Constantly challenges status-quo in the pursuit of improved scheduling efficiencies.
• Reinforces a resilient can-do mentality and pushes for bold actions to deliver on commitments and overcome roadblocks.
• Demonstrates courage to make decisions and manages conflicts in order to move things forward and drive execution.
• Good communication and networking skills.
• Strong systems knowledge and competence with supply chain tools including Excel.
• Ability to think in scenarios and manage uncertainty.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Supply Chain Mgmt., Business, Industrial Engineering, or related field preferred.
• 4-5 years of related experience in a manufacturing operations and or supply chain planning role.
• 1-2 years of Finite Scheduling experience (E.g.: Combination of raw material, deployment from plant to warehouse (finished goods), and execution).
• Experience with SAP MRP scheduling preferred.
• APICS certification preferred.
• Experience w/ advanced planning / scheduling solutions preferred (e.g., JDA/Blue Yonder).
• Experience in a chemical compounding environment preferred.
• Strong problem solving, analytical and communication skills required.