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The Master Scheduler is responsible for driving on-time delivery through effective master scheduling and production planning activities. This role serves as a critical link between Sales, Customer Service, Supply Chain, and Operations to ensure customer commitments are met while optimizing manufacturing capacity, inventory investment, and operational performance.
Qualified candidates must be able to work an on-site schedule at our Anderson, IN facility.
Role Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute master production schedules to ensure on-time delivery and efficient utilization of manufacturing resources.
- Analyze customer backlog, production capacity, material availability, and inventory levels to establish achievable production plans.
- Adjust schedules to accommodate changes in customer demand, material shortages, equipment downtime, and other operational disruptions.
- Communicate scheduling changes, production priorities, and delivery impacts to internal stakeholders.
- Lead clear-to-build meetings to ensure production readiness and alignment across departments.
- Monitor customer backlog, lead time adherence, and past-due orders to support customer service objectives.
- Partner with Shipping to ensure timely and accurate fulfillment of customer orders.
- Monitor, analyze, and report key scheduling and delivery performance metrics.
- Generate reports related to production plans, capacity utilization, inventory levels, and demand requirements.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Operations to maintain data integrity for bills of material, routings, lead times, and planning parameters while supporting lean and continuous improvement initiatives.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
- Minimum of five (5) years of Production Inventory Planning and Control experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Five (5) or more years of leadership experience.
- APICS certification.
- Experience implementing Lean Manufacturing concepts and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Experience utilizing Oracle ERP systems.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing capacity planning, inventory management, and demand forecasting.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration abilities.
Relocation: This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
Immigration Sponsorship Not Available:
- Applicants for this position must be currently and legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship (e.g., H-1B, J-1, F-1, CPT, OPT, etc.).
- Donaldson will not offer immigration sponsorship or assume sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.
- International relocation or remote work arrangements outside of the U.S. will not be considered.
Employment opportunities for positions in the United States may require use of information which is subject to the export control regulations of the United States. Hiring decisions for such positions are required by law to be made in compliance with these regulations. Applicants for employment opportunities in other countries must be able to meet the comparable export control requirements of that country and of the United States.
Donaldson Company has been made aware that there are several recruiting scams that are targeting job seekers. These scams have attempted to solicit money for job applications and/or collect confidential information, Donaldson will never solicit money during the application or recruiting process. Donaldson only accepts online applications through our Careers | Donaldson Company, Inc. website and any communication from a Donaldson recruiter would be sent using a donaldson.com email address. If you have any questions about the legitimacy of an employment opportunity, please reach out to [email protected] to verify that the communication is from Donaldson.
Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law.
Employment opportunities for positions in the United States may require use of information which is subject to the export control regulations of the United States. Hiring decisions for such positions are required by law to be made in compliance with these regulations. Applicants for employment opportunities in other countries must be able to meet the comparable export control requirements of that country and of the United States.
Donaldson Company has been made aware that there are several recruiting scams that are targeting job seekers. These scams have attempted to solicit money for job applications and/or collect confidential information, Donaldson will never solicit money during the application or recruiting process. Donaldson only accepts online applications through our Careers | Donaldson Company, Inc. website and any communication from a Donaldson recruiter would be sent using a donaldson.com email address. If you have any questions about the legitimacy of an employment opportunity, please reach out to [email protected] to verify that the communication is from Donaldson.
Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience
- At least five years of production inventory planning and control experience in a manufacturing environment
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
- Legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship
- Five or more years of leadership experience
- APICS certification
- Experience implementing Lean Manufacturing concepts and continuous improvement initiatives
- Experience utilizing Oracle ERP systems
- Strong understanding of manufacturing capacity planning, inventory management, and demand forecasting
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration abilities
Donaldson Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Donaldson Company and has not been reviewed or approved by Donaldson Company.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs like a 401(k) match, profit-sharing, and an employee stock purchase plan are positioned as meaningful components of total compensation. Company materials consistently frame retirement benefits within a broader Total Rewards offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, and a 24/7 Employee Assistance Program with mental‑health resources create a comprehensive health and wellbeing package. Healthcare is often characterized as decent and a core strength of the overall offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, and paid parental leave are explicitly included, alongside other company‑paid leaves such as bereavement, jury duty, and military leave. Some locations highlight multi‑week PTO from the first year, underscoring breadth of leave options.
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What We Do
Donaldson Company helps solve some of the world's most complex filtration and contamination control challenges, and is one of the largest global providers of unique filtration technologies and high-quality filters and parts. Our filtration technologies and products are used every day, in a variety of industries and environments, including aerospace, agriculture, construction, food and beverage, manufacturing, mining, power generation, transportation and many more. Key to our success, our 14,000 employees support customers at sales, manufacturing and distribution centers from over 140 locations on six continents. The filtration market continues to grow. Customers' needs for filtration solutions continue to evolve. And the opportunities for our products and our people continue to expand.
