Master Scheduler ASC

MISSION:

The Master Scheduler is responsible for leading production planning, scheduling, and material coordination activities within an aerospace manufacturing environment focused on nickelbased alloy melting and revert processing. This role ensures on time delivery, optimized capacity utilization, and accurate material flow throughout melting, refining, casting, and downstream processing operations. The Master Scheduler collaborates crossfunctionally with Operations, Engineering, Procurement and Quality to support customer requirements, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Develop, maintain, and optimize master production schedules for melting furnaces, remelt operations, and downstream processes.
• Balance capacity, labor, and equipment constraints to meet customer delivery commitments.
• Translate demand forecasts, maketoorder requests, and engineering requirements into detailed work-center schedules.
• Monitor schedule adherence and adjust plans proactively to address bottlenecks, equipment downtime, process yield issues, or emergent customer priorities.
• Ensure availability of raw materials, revert, alloying elements, consumables, and tooling required for nickelbased alloy melting operations.
• Maintain optimal inventory levels through MRP oversight, safety stock management, and strategic planning for longlead items.
• Coordinate with procurement to manage supplier lead times, expedite critical materials, and mitigate supply risks.
• Utilize ERP/MRP systems to manage work orders, routings, bills of materials, and capacity models.
• Track production KPIs such as OTD, WIP aging, furnace utilization, yield performance, and inventory turns.
• Drive data accuracy by identifying and resolving discrepancies in BOMs, routings, and transactional records.
• Partner with operations and engineering to align schedules with process capabilities, including melt chemistries, heatlot configurations, and qualification requirements.
• Support the department with accurate delivery commitments, recovery plans, and schedule updates.
• Participate in rootcause investigations and improvement initiatives related to planning, material flow, process time reduction, or equipment constraints.
• Ensure all planning activities adhere to AS9100/AS9120 standards and customer-specific aerospace requirements.
• Maintain traceability and heatlot control for all nickelbased alloys throughout the melt-to-finish process.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Business, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience, required.
• 5+ years of production planning/scheduling experience in aerospace, metals manufacturing, foundry/melting operations, or similar heavy industrial environment required.
• Experience in nickelbased superalloy melting (e.g., VIM, VAR, ESR) or specialty metals manufacturing preferred.
• Experience with lean manufacturing, constraintbased planning, or S&OP processes highly preferred.
• Familiarity with aerospace customer requirements (e.g., Pratt & Whitney, GE Aviation, RollsRoyce) highly preferred
• Strong understanding of MRP/ERP systems required.
• Proven ability to plan in capacityconstrained, highmix/lowvolume environments required.
• APICS CPIM/CSCP certification preferred.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills required.
• Ability to interpret technical routings, metallurgical process flows, and manufacturing documentation required.
• Able and willing to work in a heavy industrial manufacturing environment, with regular interaction on the production floor.

With more than 120 operations and approximately 20,000 employees worldwide, Precision Castparts Corp. is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components, aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications. In addition, we are the leading producer of airfoil castings for the industrial gas turbine market. We also manufacture extruded seamless pipe, fittings, and forgings for power generation and oil & gas applications; commercial and military airframe aerostructures; and metal alloys and other materials for the casting and forging industries. With such critical applications, we insist on quality and dependability - not just in the materials and products we make, but in the people we recruit.

PCC is relentless in its dedication to being a high-quality, low-cost and on-time producer; delivering the highest value to its customers while continually pursuing strategic, profitable growth.

In 2016, Berkshire Hathaway, led by Chairman and CEO Warren E. Buffett, acquired Precision Castparts Corp.