Production Scheduler

About the Voith Group

The Voith Group is a global technology company. With its broad portfolio of systems, products, services and digital applications, Voith sets standards in the markets of energy, paper, raw materials and transport & automotive. Founded in 1867, the company today has around 22,000 employees, sales of € 5,5 billion and locations in over 60 countries worldwide and is thus one of the larger family-owned companies in Europe.

Voith Paper is hiring for:

Production Scheduler
West Monroe, LA

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Reasons you’ll love working here:

• Flexibility with Work/Life Balance
• Competitive Compensation and Benefits Package
• 401K with generous company match
• Climate-Neutral Footprint Worldwide
• Tuition reimbursement

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary liaison between Customer Service Engineers (CSEs), Mechanical and Cover shop supervisors to develop, maintain, and submit project schedules per contractual requirements.
• Coordinate with Mechanical and Cover shop managers and engage employees to incorporate input and secure commitment to project schedules in alignment with internal Voith processes and systems.
• Key interface between CSE’s, mechanical shop/ cover shop teams / department heads to ensure projects schedules are fully up to date according to actual progress achieved
• Report out KPI’s to ensure completion of the project dates as determined
• Provide early warnings when project dates may deviate or may not be met
• Collaborate with project teams / department heads to identify critical path activities, potential bottleneck situations, as well as opportunities.
• Maintain accurate data in key systems (e.g. JDE, Box) and ensure system updates for data integrity.
• Analyze KPIs and escalate critical scheduling issues to CSEs and shop management.
• Support CSE’s with customer reports and meetings related to scheduling and delivery performance.
• Critically review a schedule and apply concepts of resource loading, cost loading, critical path, fast track (rush jobs) to get an optimal time schedule.
• Create timelines on critical, priority jobs

Requirements:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in project scheduling and/or project management
• Experience with ERP systems such as JDE or SAP preferred
• Production planning experience in custom manufactured products and/or Engineer-to-order business experience
• Background in project, construction and/or proposal scheduling and management
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate across teams
• Effective negotiation and conflict resolution skills, with a proactive approach to problem-solving.

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the key actions of job.
• The employee is also required to talk and/or hear in an office setting (noise level is low) and shop environment (noise level high). The employee is frequently required to stand and walk in an office/shop environment from 4-8 hours. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms; lift; stoop, or crouch.
• The vision requirements: close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception and adjust focus.
• The job may require occasional travel.

Don’t meet every single requirement but think you would be a good fit for our team? We encourage you to apply – your unique skills may be just what we need for this or other roles!

Voith US Inc. is an EEO/AA/VEVRAA compliant Federal Contractor and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. We welcome everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in the industry including people of color, LGBTQI+ community, women, individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen), Veterans, people of any age or family status. We embrace the competitive advantage that diversity brings and we strive to create a working environment that is inclusive of thought and talent.