McWane Ductile Ohio - Pipe Scheduler

McWane, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Employment is made available to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, and marital status, disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with reasonable accommodation, Vietnam Era or veteran status. This policy applies to hiring, placement, recruitment, rates of pay or other forms of compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, layoffs, recalls, Company-sponsored training, terminations, and other employment-related activities.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, bend, crouch or crawl, and taste or smell. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, high or precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, outside weather conditions, extreme heat or cold, wet and/or humid conditions, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Basic Duties and Responsibilities: Manages people and processes that affect the integrity of the inventory and our system. Drives best practices that result in higher inventory turns, lower costs, fewer internal and supplier issues, and top-level customer service. Encourages teamwork between Supply Chain departments (Inventory Control, Shipping and Purchasing) and production, sales, accounting, and other MDO departments.

• Use MRP, Excel and verbal communications to create and adjust weekly casting schedules for pipe shop (pipe and pole segments), and finishing as well as TR Flex, Zinc and 401, based on departmental capabilities, customer and hard stock requirements, and stocking level initiatives.
• Track pipe that needs to go offline and communicate expectations to those offline areas
• Lead the weekly scheduling meeting with production to ensure available resources and capacity Provide accurate backlogs for sales and management and be able to supply lead times on fast track or large quantity orders
• Lead a monthly meeting with sales to discuss current and upcoming demand
• Manage and communicate pipe shipping shortage resolutions to stakeholders.
• Assist shipping department with inventory issues and cycle counts as needed.
• Help to maintain accurate BOMs and Routes, production orders, and transfer orders associated with cast and finished pipe
• Maintain accurate inventories between warehouses
• Track and reduce excess and obsolete pipe product. Work with shipping and sales to downgrade or ship when possible.
• Analyze shipping trends, forecasting directives, and company initiatives to create stocking levels and ensure high levels of customer service throughout the year
• Work with Shipping, Quality and Finishing to complete, expedite and rework products
• Ensure customer return pipe products (RMEs) are entered into the correct warehouse/location
• Participates in and handles some pre/post planning/reconciling duties related to bi-monthly and annual physical inventories.
• Handles certain tasks for other Schedulers and Inventory Control Manager when they are on vacation.
• Works in a safe manner and follows Company plant and safety policies, procedures and practices
• Fosters positive work relationships.
• Has strong written, oral, communication and facilitation skills
• Keeps supervisor informed of important matters as they arise.
• Understands and communicates the McWane Way Compass principles, values, and behaviors.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Supervisory Responsibilities: There are no supervisory responsibilities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) plus 3-5 years of related experience with scheduling in a manufacturing setting and experience with some type of MRP software.
• Demonstrated sense of urgency and ability to handle fast-paced work environment.
• Computer literate; proficient with Microsoft Windows, MS Office programs and applications. Mid to high level use in Excel with ability to create pivot tables and create formulas and graphs/charts. Experience in D365 or other Dynamics system preferred.
• Time and priority management is a must.

Ability to work with a diverse group of people and collaborate effectively towards a common end goal

McWane, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Employment is made available to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, and marital status, disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with reasonable accommodation, Vietnam Era or veteran status. This policy applies to hiring, placement, recruitment, rates of pay or other forms of compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, layoffs, recalls, Company-sponsored training, terminations, and other employment-related activities.

McWane Ductile - Ohio is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Female, minority, veteran, and disabled candidates are encouraged to apply

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

McWane is a Federal VEVRAA contractor, and an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices. McWane will not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran or service member status, marital status, citizenship status (In IL - sex, including same sex, ancestry, order of protection status, physical or mental disability, military status, pregnancy, unfavorable discharge status, genetic information), (In IA - gender identity), (In CA- gender identity or expression, and genetic information) or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.