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Cummins

Builds engines, generators, and powertrains

Production Scheduler

Production Planning & SchedulingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeWuhan, Hubei, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A college, university, or equivalent degree is required.
  • Minimal to intermediate experience is required.
  • The position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Responsibilities

  • Plan and establish production schedules; monitor materials, inventory, and production progress; and review factors affecting schedules.
  • Collaborate with functional teams to exchange relevant information and meet customer expectations and requirements.
  • Develop daily or weekly production schedules to meet goals, assign production efficiently to minimize costs and meet delivery deadlines, and monitor production processes and implement process improvements.
  • Use common processes, tools, and information systems.
  • Analyze and interpret key performance indicators to identify areas for improvement and develop action plans.
  • Identify potential supply chain failures during scheduling and mitigate associated risks.
  • Arrange daily, weekly, and monthly production plans and build plan forecasts.
  • Arrange witness test plans based on customer requirements.
  • Reply to the OM team with promise dates for each customer order.
  • Attend daily production meetings and align production information with cross-functional teams.
  • Track the status of each ETO order.
  • Create a job order for each genset according to the production plan.
  • Maintain all MO information in job orders.
  • Maintain the long-term forecast in ASCP for each IBP cycle.
  • Translate the Master Production Schedule into detailed resource requirements, optimize internal capacity utilization, identify constraints, negotiate schedule or resource changes when demand exceeds capacity, and consider options such as overtime, additional shifts, or headcount to increase capacity.
  • Establish and maintain a valid Master Production Schedule for a product family that meets customer expectations while maximizing operational efficiency, and validate alignment of procurement scheduling, production scheduling, and replenishment planning with manufacturing and assembly assets.
  • Assess materials KPIs against organizational expectations, identify supply chain performance gaps, interpret customer impact, and balance trade-offs among KPIs.
  • Translate the Demand Plan and Master Supply Plan into critical labor, machine, and materials requirements, and negotiate or change plans or resources to balance supply and demand over the longer term.
  • Use the materials planning system to manage supply and demand plans and take long-term corrective action on exception messages and alerts based on root-cause analysis; use tools such as Excel, Access, TOAD, or OMS when needed for problem-solving.
  • Evaluate and implement engineering change requests, including obsolescence, supersessions, and new part releases, to meet customer delivery requirements while minimizing excess and obsolete inventory.

About the Company

Cummins

Builds engines, generators, and powertrains

Cummins designs and manufactures engines, power generation systems, and related components for commercial vehicles, industrial machinery, and stationary power. Vehicle and equipment makers install its diesel and natural gas engines, while businesses use its generator sets for backup and continuous electricity. Its components include turbochargers, emissions controls, transmissions, axles, and brakes, and its Accelera business builds batteries and electric powertrain systems. Cummins earns revenue from equipment and component sales, replacement parts, and maintenance through company-owned and independent distributors and dealers. Cummins was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Columbus, Indiana.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Columbus, IN
Founded
1919

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