Production Scheduler

The role

The Production Scheduler will create and maintain detailed day-to-day production schedules for manufacturing work centers. This person will monitor progress, resolve scheduling conflicts, and coordinate with various departments to ensure predictable delivery of fusion hardware.

What you will do

• Develop, maintain and continuously optimize detailed production schedules across multiple manufacturing work centers.
• Sequence and re-sequence work orders day-to-day to reflect real-time engineering priorities, material availability and manufacturing constraints.
• Monitor manufacturing progress in real time and proactively resolve scheduling conflicts and bottlenecks.
• Coordinate with the Procurement & Logistics Department to flag near-term material shortages.
• Balance day-to-day workloads across internal and external manufacturing resources in line with the capacity plan.
• Work closely with Manufacturing Engineering to reflect process changes in the active schedule.
• Partner with Program Managers to keep them informed of schedule status and re-prioritize work.
• Analyze schedule performance and identify emerging risks to delivery timelines.
• Generate and monitor key execution metrics, including schedule adherence, work order completion, lead times and work-in-progress.
• Contribute to the development of scalable scheduling processes and tools.

Required qualifications

• Degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in production scheduling, manufacturing
• Experience with production scheduling systems, MRP/ERP workflows and manufacturing data management.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments where priorities evolve quickly.
• Comfortable working close to the shop floor.
• Effective communication across multidisciplinary teams.
• Proactive and detail-oriented.
• Comfortable working in an evolving hardware development environment.

About the company

Proxima Fusion is Europe’s fastest-growing fusion company and the continent’s best-funded fusion player, as well as the first spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP). The company is developing the hardware and infrastructure needed to deliver the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant.