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This role is responsible for developing and maintaining finite production schedules to ensure product availability and achieve targeted service levels across the business.\nKey responsibilities include monitoring material inventories, tracking production progress, leading daily meetings with production teams, collaborating with planners in weekly alignment meetings, conducting root cause analyses, managing and responding to production alerts, and maintaining close communication with customer service, manufacturing, and raw material teams to ensure efficient operations.\nThis is an on-site position located at the Washington Works facility in Washington, West Virginia.\nResponsibilities\nConvert the weekly level master production plan into daily production schedule and optimize the production sequence to meet defined objectives.\nCollaborate with manufacturing to optimize the schedule, handle execution level changes, and align on future maintenance plan / calendars and specific manufacturing requirements.\nConduct scenario management based on exceptions and constraint violations.\nCollaborate with planning to mitigate any unplanned plant interruptions or to handle rush supply requests.\nAnalyze scheduling metrics, conduct root cause analysis and report schedule performance.\nCollaborate with internal stakeholders (Supply Planner/Master Production Scheduler, Warehouse/Logistics teams, Customer Service and Plant Operations Management) to mitigate any supply related risks.\nMaintain scheduling related master data , both in SAP and Advanced Planning System (Blue Yonder) (e.g., SKU-machine mappings, changeover matrices, run rates, minimum run sizes). 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