Job Description

Encore Talent Solutions is currently seeking a Master Scheduler for a full time position located onsite in Cincinnati, OH.

The Master Scheduler plays a key leadership role in driving production efficiency, schedule accuracy, and on-time delivery across the organization. This position is responsible for developing, maintaining, and communicating the master production schedule that aligns customer demand with available capacity, materials, and resources.

Acting as a strategic link between operations, purchasing, IT, and sales, the Master Scheduler ensures production plans are optimized for output, cost, and customer satisfaction. This role also leads ongoing improvement efforts to maximize the functionality of the company’s ERP/MRP systems, strengthen process reliability, and support a paperless, data-driven production environment.

The ideal candidate brings strong analytical and organizational skills, a hands-on understanding of manufacturing operations, and a leadership style that fosters collaboration, accountability, and a customer-first mindset.

Responsibilities:

• Communicate the strategic direction of Production Planning throughout all levels of the organization.
• Develop and improve processes that maximize the power of ERP and MRP Planning software
• Support production by sequencing the schedule to maximize output and minimize changeover time while considering customer priority.
• Oversees development of production and delivery schedules to execute an optimal weekly production plan.
• Partnership with the purchasing team to establish dynamic production inventory targets required through all levels of the supply chain to satisfy fill rate commitments and financial projections.
• Develops machine capacity utilization plans across all production departments.
• Partner with IT to develop and maintain system and network updates to fully leverage system functionality.
• Partner cross-functionally to ensure that processes produce cost effective, efficient operations, maintain customer goodwill, and achieve business objectives.
• Develops and tracks metrics and success criteria for all initiatives.
• Provide accurate lead time to the Customer Service and Sales teams.
• Support the launch of new programs / products.
• Monitor metrics of master schedules and track deviations for all machines. Identify issues, work to resolve them and share with Supervisor on a regular basis.
• BOM verification and correction

Encore Talent Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We respect and seek to empower each individual and support the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills, and experiences within our workforce.

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