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Zeiss

Corporate venture capital for deep-tech startups

Head of Scheduling

Production Planning & SchedulingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeWetzlar, GermanyNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • You have completed a degree in industrial engineering, production engineering, Supply Chain Management, or have a comparable technical qualification, such as a technician or business administrator qualification.
  • You have several years of verifiable leadership experience in manufacturing control, production planning, dispatching, or a comparable operational control function, and have taken responsibility for employees, priorities, results, and change processes.
  • You have demonstrably led, built, shaped, or successfully developed a team, enabling employees through coaching, clear direction, and effective leadership to improve autonomy, collaboration, and performance.
  • You have a thorough understanding of capacity management, schedule control, bottleneck management, and cross-departmental coordination, and can derive clear control measures, priorities, and decisions for your team.
  • You have strong change-management and digitalization capabilities and can demonstrate experience introducing, embedding, or effectively using digital solutions, data quality practices, modern control tools, or systems such as Power BI and SAP S/4HANA in an organization.
  • You lead clearly, consistently, and respectfully, communicate appropriately to different audiences, and provide direction in complex situations, combining operational assertiveness with the ability to bring people along and implement sustainable improvements together.
  • You have very good German skills and good written and spoken English skills.

Responsibilities

  • You lead the manufacturing control team professionally and disciplinarily and develop employees so they can confidently, independently, and effectively meet current and future requirements.
  • You create transparency with your team regarding production plans, deadlines, capacities, bottlenecks, and progress, and ensure that clear priorities and effective control decisions are derived from this information.
  • You strengthen collaboration with product planning, manufacturing areas, and interface partners, and develop existing control processes with the team to sustainably improve delivery reliability, transparency, and operational effectiveness.
  • You establish clear standards, roles, and responsibilities in manufacturing control and promote working practices based on reliability, personal responsibility, data quality, and continuous improvement.
  • You enable your team to confidently apply and actively develop digital tools, data-based control logic, and new systems to effectively use the opportunities and address the challenges of an increasingly digital production environment.

About the Company

Zeiss

Corporate venture capital for deep-tech startups

ZEISS Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of the ZEISS Group, investing in deep-tech startups that align with its core business areas. It focuses on early-stage rounds (pre-Series A to Series A), typically $1–$5 million, across Information Technology, Industrial Tech, MedTech, and Life Sciences. It adds value by providing targeted funding and using ZEISS’s global network and expertise to support portfolio companies. The goal is to accelerate development of new technologies and business models that complement ZEISS’s portfolio, while actively engaging with external innovation.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total funding
$69.9M
Headquarters
Oberkochen, Germany
Founded
2001

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