Master Scheduler

Job Description

Who are weWere the biggest name in Europes vehicle remarketing industry, selling1.3m vehicles per year, across60 locationsand with aturnover of £2billion. We believe our people are the best in the business,they are friendly, expert, and professional.Hours : 0800 - 1750 - Monday to FriayLocation: HybridSalary: £52,000 per annum.Key purpose of the role: Tocreate and sustain planning processes and governance for Retail Ops that ensure maximum stakeholder involvement through the BCA Supply Chain with transparency of key decisions. The role will implement standard planning practices, develop the skill levelsof the planning community, recruiting and educating where needed and bring WIP management practices to all Retail Operations Sites with a resulting impact on reducing lead time.Key Accountabilities:

• Implement and Sustain SIOP
• Develop Sales Inventory & Operational Planning process with inbound, outbound, internal and external stakeholders to maximise communication of production plan and optimise production with inventory (WIP and AFS).
• Sustain robust governance process and ensure transparency of decision taken through the BCA supply chain and BCA Financial community.
• Weekly Input and Output Plan & Control
• Provide weekly cadence of upstream and downstream connections with Retail Ops Production Sites to improve transparency of inbound and outbound vehicles and production volumes to all stakeholders.
• Formalise tools and governance processes to manage WIP / Output on daily, weekly cadence at network, site and workcentre level.
• Develop governance processes for the management of Slow Moving WIP in order to reduce average cumulative leadtime.
• Future Load and Capacity Planning
• Provide monthly governance processes for site capacity increase working with Industrial Capability Development Team.
• Provide governance of Risk capture and mitigation for short range and long range planning to meet committed production targets.
• Create tools and management processes for the assessment of both machine and labour requirements across all sites
• Productivity Monitoring
• With Finance and HR teams develop productivity monitoring tools for all sites such that labour and machine efficiency is understood and can be used to compare sites and make investment / recruitment decisions.
• Use Productivity Monitoring as feedback loop into Future Load and Capacity Plan
• Standard Production Planning Tools
• Take the lead in shaping tools that can be used on all sites for purposes of management at site or workcentre level. Standardise use across sites.
• Develop Planning Community
• Be the focal point for the development of functional and behavioural skill sets for site planning teams.
• Develop formal education programme for Retail Ops Planners.

Skills and experience required:

• Ability to influence and lead change
• People skills / teamwork / communications
• Senior Stakeholder engagement
• Experience of plant and work centre operational management / planning
• Knowledge of Lean tools and techniques
• Knowledge of Scheduling Systems
• Load and Capacity mgt with theoretical and practical experience
• Microsoft Excel and other database such as Access at a high competency level
• MRP System knowledge
• Eexperience within prodcution

Why choose BCA- 25 days holiday + bank holodays- Company Car / Car allowance- Onsite parking- Employee Assistance Programme- Eye care scheme- Access to BCA Rewards which provides online and store discounts with a range of retailers- Cycle to work scheme- Training/apprenticeship offering- Deals on new carsOur policy is to employ the best qualified people and provide equal opportunity for the advancement of employees including promotion and training and not to discriminate against any person because of gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation,religion, belief or disability.