Schedule Planner

John Deere John Deere · Industrial · Waterloo, IA +1 · Operations (CA)

This role is a Schedule Planner for John Deere's Drivetrain Division, focusing on facilitating material flow in a complex manufacturing supply chain to ensure on-time delivery. It requires experience with SAP-PP, manufacturing scheduling, and understanding of change control and Bill of Materials.

What you'd actually do

  1. Facilitate the flow of material through a complex manufacturing supply chain to support on-time delivery to assembly, service, and inter-factory customers.

Skills

Required

  • Effective communicator who thrives in a team environment.
  • Experience that demonstrates effective multi-tasking, prioritization skills, and the ability to make sound decisions quickly.
  • One or more years of experience utilizing SAP-PP (Production Planning) parameters and transactions with the demonstrated result of achieving desired delivery metrics.
  • Demonstrated ability to schedule in a cross-functional shop-floor team environment under compressed manufacturing lead time conditions.
  • One or more years of scheduling experience in a manufacturing environment.
  • Experience that demonstrates a basic understanding of change control concepts.

Nice to have

  • Working or collaboration experiences with Drive Train Components shop floor scheduling.
  • At least one year of working experience using SAP-PP (Production Planning) transactions in a divergent flow or job shop environment.
  • Experience with Legacy material planning systems used at John Deere – (CWIS – Common Worldwide Inter-factory System) for service parts fulfillment and Material Requirements Planning.
  • Understanding of Bill of Material (BOM)