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Master Scheduler – Upgrades
Location
United States
Posted
11 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Master Scheduler – Upgrades
General Electric - GE
• Lead a team of project/outage schedulers to deliver services to the Projects/Outage Upgrade teams as a COE, across Generator and/or Steam Value Streams for Nuclear, Fossil and Industrial segments, globally. • Design, govern and continuously improve the enterprise level scheduling architecture. • Own and orchestrate the integrated, capacity-constrained master schedule for Steam Services Upgrades, ensuring reliable start and finish dates across commercial, engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, supply chain, logistics, repairs and field service. • Ensure timely availability of GEV and supplier-delivered equipment while aligning with customer commitments and segment-specific regulatory expectations. • Actively participate in the definition of the scheduling standards as a member of the S&OE governance team. • Make schedule performance measurable, transparent and predictive. • Embed risk and probabilistic thinking into scheduling. • Lead the team of schedulers including third party services and contribute to the building of a scheduling talent system incl competency frameworks (S&OE governance). • Translate schedule data into business insights required to take the right decisions in the S&OE framework. • Develop and maintain the upgrades master schedule with all defined scheduling points aligned with contractual commitments. • Work with the resource owner to balance load vs. demonstrated capacity for critical resource pools. • Identify schedule risks and conflicts across concurrent projects in the portfolio and lead recovery planning, develop risk and scenario planning for potential conflicts. • Enforce schedule discipline, time fences (frozen/slushy zones), and change governance within the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) process. • Provide a single, trusted integrated upgrades schedule for leadership and cross-functional teams. • Integrate with existing Upgrades tools and relevant dashboards. • Validate scheduling point variability and create/manage buffers. • Provide clear visibility of risks of equipment availability to the IMS and PMO. • Operationalize the S&OE process and prepare formal pre-read and agenda for upgrades S&OE executive weekly meeting. • Define change classes (A/B/C) with approval thresholds and who can approve within each time fence (frozen/slushy zones). • Interface and govern linkage with S&OP and DM, including change approval mechanics and demand/supply synchronization.
Job Requirements
- Significant experience in Master Scheduling.
- Educational qualifications equivalent to a master’s degree from an accredited institution, or a high school diploma with relevant experience.
- Significant experience as a Master Scheduler
- Ability to travel 20% domestically and internationally.
- Strong knowledge of Master Scheduling, IMS, and cumulative lead-time concepts.
- Ability to develop and coach teams and drive a high performing team culture.
- Ability to frame decisions under uncertainty and influence key stakeholders.
- Experience with industry project management (eg heavy industry, automotive, aerospace, civil engineering).
- Ability to assess load vs. capacity using demonstrated performance data.
- Scheduling expertise, including resource planning and slot optimization.
- Experience working with global functions (eg engineering, manufacturing).
- Data-driven mindset with ability to analyze high volume data sets, to derive performance trends and to generate data visualization.
- Strong facilitation and decision-support skills.
- APICS/ASCM CPIM or equivalent certification preferred.
- Comfortable working across US and global time zones.
Benefits
- Relocation Assistance Provided: No
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