JOB TITLE: Plant Scheduler

LOCATION: Tlalnepantla

REPORTS TO: Supply Chain Manager

Company Background:

Ingredion is a Fortune 500 provider of ingredient solutions that helps nourish, comfort, sustain, and delight people around the world. Ingredion's wide range of ingredient solutions is strategically designed to address changing consumer trends and preferences. Our specialty portfolio includes starch-based texturizers, clean and simple ingredients, plant-based proteins, sugar reduction and specialty sweeteners, and food systems. Our innovative ingredient solutions are used by consumers in everyday products, from foods and beverages to paper and pharmaceuticals. And we do it all in a planet-friendly sustainable manner.

We bring the potential of people, nature, and technology together to make life better.

The Plant Scheduler will be responsible for production programs for the plant and tracking production performance maintaining daily communication and interaction with Logistics Chief and Production staff in the plant.

Provide weekly programs, generate production orders in SAP, supervise production adherence, and analyze inventory status and warehousing impact, being able to prepare production balances, presentations, and other reports.

Key Deliverables

• Determine weekly production requirements for the demand assigned to every product family on Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), customer orders, warehouse and shipment characteristics, and annual production goals.
• Set weekly and daily production schedules and assure production order creation in SAP for plant production families to supply domestic demand and affiliate demand, using MF50 (JDA) and regular order creation transactions CO01 and CO02.
• Identify and work to resolve potential product shortfalls based on communication with Logistics Chief.
• Monitor local product inventories based on safety and operative stocks aligned with daily demand including warehouses and break stations. Taking care of the DIO target (Days inventory on hand) asked by the Global supply chain. Aligning the operation in the plants with JDA proposals.
• Follow up on critical inventories and special customer requirements including them in weekly program and being able to ask for changes within the week if needed.
• Manage local inventory for self-consumption usage codes considering local and import products.
• Provide coordination between supply chain, production, customer service & order coordination.
• Provide support to Logistics Chief with communication to operations and packaging tollers.
• Support Logistics Chief in efforts to continuous improvement of the process through process optimization and maintaining the department's technical proficiencies.
• Assist with weekly production adherence and order accomplishment analysis within the plant.
• Perform special projects and other related duties as assigned by Supply Planner and Logistics Chief.
• Develop plans to monitor and cover product shortfalls by working with supply chain, production, customer service, and order coordination.
• Expedite quality lots by working with Quality staff and special requirements from affiliates.
• Monitor the accomplishment of maintenance plans and the effect on the channel availability during the month.
• Act as backup to other team members and eligible to work in new technologies.

Desired behavior, personal attributes, (Leader Imperatives and Competencies):

• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate across functional lines.
• Decision-making ability, numeric and planning skills.
• Ability to be flexible with a capacity to solve problems through creative, innovative solutions and be able to negotiate and propose improvements.
• Ability to work independently, completing multiple tasks simultaneously timely, and accurately.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Create shared value and mutual growth by engaging customers in developing solutions to make Ingredion their partner of choice
• Challenge the status quo and promote bold thinking in order to create value in new ways across customers, processes, products, and solutions to stay relevant and competitive in changing markets

Knowledge, Skills, and Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Proficiency with SAP.
• Experience collecting data from numerous sources, organizing and maintaining accurate records and files, and generating required reports.
• English communication skills.
• Knowledge of operations, products, and customers is desirable.
• Demonstrated leadership experience with proven ability to drive results.
• Experience presenting to cross-functional audiences, including executive leadership.
• High proficiency using web-based applications, MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, and ERPs) is required.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and execute digital initiatives to streamline processes.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, military status, or disability status.

Ingredion provides accommodations to job applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process. If a job applicant requires accommodation during the application process or through the selection process, we will work with the applicant to meet the job applicant's accommodation needs.

Relocation Available:
No