Job Description

Celanese Corporation is a global chemical leader in the production of differentiated chemistry solutions and specialty materials used in most major industries and consumer applications. Our businesses use the full breadth of Celanese's global chemistry, technology and commercial expertise to create value for our customers, employees, shareholders and the corporation. As we partner with our customers to solve their most critical business needs, we strive to make a positive impact on our communities and the world through The Celanese Foundation. Based in Dallas, Celanese employs approximately 13,000 employees worldwide and had 2023 net sales of $10.9 billion. For more information about Celanese Corporation and its product offerings, visit  .

Responsibilities:

Celanese - Engineered Materials business is seeking a dynamic and analytical Supply Chain Production Scheduler that executes scheduling routines to support and meet the company strategy, company performance objectives and customer expectations, in addition to adherence to global processes and business rules.  This position will be responsible for plans and establish finite production schedules to ensure product availability and achieve target business line service levels.  Monitors materials inventories , tracks progress of production, daily meetings with production team, weekly meetings with planners to ensure alignment, run root cause analysis when needed, issue and respond to alerts, and close communication with customer service, manufacturing, and raw material teams.

Responsibilities:

• Convert the weekly level master production plan into daily production schedule and optimize the production sequence to meet defined objectives.
• Collaborate with manufacturing to optimize the schedule, handle execution level changes, and align on future maintenance plan / calendars and specific manufacturing requirements.
• Conduct scenario management based on exceptions and constraint violations.
• Collaborate with planning to mitigate any unplanned plant interruptions or to handle rush supply requests.
• Analyze scheduling metrics, conduct root cause analysis and report schedule performance.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders (Supply Planner/Master Production Scheduler, Warehouse/Logistics teams, Customer Service and Plant Operations Management) to mitigate any supply related risks.
• Maintain 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). Manage scheduling related master data as per set governance.
• Support improvements to local/global scheduling related projects or Blue Yonder tool improvements.

Competencies:

• Anticipates and responds quickly to changes.
• Constantly challenges status-quo in the pursuit of improved scheduling efficiencies.
• Reinforces a resilient can-do mentality and pushes for bold actions to deliver on commitments and overcome roadblocks.
• Demonstrates courage to make decisions and manages conflicts in order to move things forward and drive execution.
• Good communication and networking skills.
• Strong systems knowledge and competence with supply chain tools including Excel.
• Ability to think in scenarios and manage uncertainty.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Supply Chain Mgmt., Business, Industrial Engineering, or related field preferred.
• 4-5 years of related experience in a manufacturing operation and or supply chain planning role.
• 1-2 years of Finite Scheduling experience (E.g.: Combination of raw material, deployment from plant to warehouse (finished goods), and execution).
• Experience with SAP MRP scheduling preferred.
• APICS certification preferred.
• Experience w/ advanced planning / scheduling solutions preferred (e.g., JDA/Blue Yonder).
• Experience in a chemical compounding environment preferred.
• Strong problem solving, analytical and communication skills required.

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