Shop Floor Scheduler

Bij GKN Aerospace krijg je de kans om bij te dragen aan innovatie in de luchtvaart, met focus op duurzaamheid en het verleggen van grenzen. Met meer dan 16.000 medewerkers op 33 productielocaties in 12 landen bedienen we meer dan 90% van ’s werelds vliegtuig- en motorfabrikanten.

Job Summary

Als Shop Floor Scheduler beheer je alle planningsactiviteiten binnen een productiegebied. Dit omvat het beheren van visuele systemen om de volgorde van productieorders te bepalen en te monitoren, het borgen van de beschikbaarheid van resources en het creëren en onderhouden van de optimale productiesequentie.

What you'll do?

• Production planning: Create and maintain production schedules based on customer orders, inventory levels and production capacity.
• Resource allocation: Allocate resources such as labour, machinery and materials to meet production requirements.
• Coordination: Collaborate with various departments, including production, logistics and procurement, to ensure smooth production flow.
• Monitoring: Track the progress of production orders and adjust schedules as needed to meet changing requirements or solve problems.
• Inventory management: Manage inventory levels to avoid over- or shortages while minimizing inventory costs.
• Problem solving: Identify and address production bottlenecks, delays and other issues that may affect production schedules.

Job Qualifications

To best fulfil this role, we require the following:

• Bachelor degree preferably in Supply Chain/Logistics.
• An advantage is having experience with day-to-day planning within an operations environment.
• As a type of person, you are stress-resistant. You can work both independently and in a team and you are eager to learn. You can work in a precise and planned manner.
• Good communication skills, you know how to create support for your ideas in order to get stakeholders on board.
• You enjoy thinking about process optimisation.

What we'll offer

We are committed to offer you a challenge but also a great opportunity to learn and grow. We want to offer you a career that can go to many directions thanks to our breadth of international opportunities. We will support and promote your professional and personal development.

Furthermore, we will offer you:

• 8% holiday allowance.
• 40 paid holidays for full-time employment in line with the Collective Labor Agreement Metalektro (27 holidays and 13 ADV days).
• An excellent pension scheme (PME) and travel allowance.
• A pleasant and informal working environment, in which we work together to achieve the best result for our customers.