Master Scheduler

**Job Requisition No**
- VN7860

**Work Location Name**
- Bidford - UK

**Company**

BVI® is refocusing the future of vision.

As one of the fastest-growing, diversified surgical ophthalmic businesses in the world, our purpose-built portfolio of trusted brands includes: Beaver® (Knives and Blades), Visitec® (Cannulas), Malosa® (Single-Use Instruments), Vitreq® (Vitreoretinal Surgical Products) and PhysIOL® (Premium IOLs), and spans more than 90 countries.

We’ve set our sights on touching the lives of millions of patients affected by conditions such as cataracts, refractive error, glaucoma, retinal disease, and dry eye. Unburdened by legacy or bureaucracy, we have developed our strategy around a simple concept - taking pride in delivering innovative solutions for our physicians and patients, based on their needs.

We trust and empower our associates to make decisions and solve problems because collaboration drives us. Valuing agility, simplicity, and transparency, we stay committed to listening to our customers, delivering for our patients, and keeping the future in focus.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Support where required the creation of production plans, considering material availability and manufacturing capacity.
- Work closely with Material Planners to fully understand current and planned material availability
- Assess volume requirements against planning assumptions
- Understand and manage risks to minimise impact on production schedule
- Actively contribute to the development and support of planning processes and benchmark against best practice and review ways to make continuous improvements
- Implement all processes to agreed standards and targets and support continuous improvement initiatives, identifying areas of improvement
- Monitor the integrity of Bill of Materials (BOM) and manage inventory accuracy
- Create regular statistical reports and analysis and update others in the organization
- Create and maintain KPI’s including Data accuracy, Forecast Accuracy, Production Plan adherence and Material Plan adherence.
- Developing and managing the Master Production Schedule within the company’s ERP and Planning systems
- Developing and managing Short-medium-Long-term rough-cut capacity planning.
- Previous experience of Production planning and managing the smooth supply of materials in line with production requirements and budget, ideally within automotive or manufacturing
- High degree of knowledge and understanding of a variety of manufacturing and automotive processes and components and good understanding of supply chain management or expert knowledge of specialist area
- Understanding of supplier relationships and experience of working with suppliers
- Strong IT systems knowledge and skills including advanced Excel skills
- Knowledge and experience of using MRP (Material Requirements Planning) systems or similar
- Knowledge of lean techniques may be advantageous
- Strong analytical and numerate skills required.
- Effective communication and influencing skills.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with manufacturing and supply chain planning.
- **Purpose**
- Support production planning requirements and be able to deliver efficient, effective and flexible solutions to meet production requirements. Maintains strong relationships both internally and externally to ensure supply of materials meets requirements
- **Qualification**
- A business/engineering degree preferred. A Levels, HNC,
- BTEC National Diploma Level 3,
- Diploma or equivalent NVQ level 3
- Minimum 3 year’s experience in a senior production/material scheduling role