Geozone Master Planner

Weatherford has a great opportunity for an experienced Master Planner to join the team in Aberdeen. The Master Planner is focused on managing and coordinating the efficient planning and scheduling of component parts and asset maintenance to satisfy customer demand. The Planner analyzes and revises work orders to ensure proper utilization of parts and provides appropriate delivery dates. The Planner works with other departments to ensure customer satisfaction and analyzes reports on actual customer demand, trends, and forecasts, adjusting capacity plans accordingly.

Responsibilities

• Assemble master schedule reporting regarding performance to the business plan, the shipment plan, the inventory plan, and the production plan.
• Analyze data for use in maintenance planning and scheduling, maintaining, and developing Best Practices for preventative maintenance.
• Provide input to finance on operating plans for the sales and operations planning (S&OP) process, concerning incoming volume and capacity.
• Identify current planned level of demand and create tactical production plans to meet the identified customer demand.
• Calculate production lead times.
• Establish reporting to determine labor and productivity performance statistics.
• Routinely develop, enhance, and implement procedures and schedules for various maintenance activities.
• Manage load leveling and bottleneck scheduling and utilize theory of constraints (TOC) for more accurate scheduling.
• Coordinate information with other functional staff, including customer service, engineering, accounting, and human resources.
• Understand capacity management relationship to D/MRP specifically JDE.
• Work with work center input and output loading.
• Establish, measure, monitor, and adjust capacity levels to execute all work order schedules.
• Determine available capacity before planned orders are released.
• Engage in capacity management during sales and operations planning, master scheduling, materials requirements planning, and production activity control.
• Resolve differences between workstation loads and available capacity.
• Measure the utilization and efficiency of workstations.

Safety, Security & Compliance

• Maintains the highest standards of corporate governance, ensuring that all activities are carried out ethically and in compliance with Company’s Security, Compliance & HSE policies, Management System, relevant laws, regulations, standards, and industry practices.
• Places Quality, Health & Safety, Security, and protection of the Environment as core values while never intentionally placing employees, our processes, customers, or the communities in which we live and work at risk.
• Seeks continual improvement in Health, Safety, Security & protection of the Environment, taking into account responsible care, process vulnerabilities, public, customer and employee inputs, knowledge and technology and best business practices to exceed customer expectations.

Quality

• Responsible for being familiar with the Company’s Quality policies and takes an active role in the compliance and improvement of Weatherford’s Management System.
• Maintains service quality as immediate priorities when working across all areas of the business and continually seeks areas for improvement.
• Maintains system accuracy over work orders in JD Edwards and My Advisor.

Communication

• Maintains effective communications with all key stakeholders both internal and where appropriate external.
• Maintains effective communications in system functions: JD Edwards, My Advisor.

Financial

• All employees have an accountability to the organisation to be financially responsible whether they are in charge of a function budget or simply their own expenses.
• Costs incurred should be within approved budget, processed within agreed time frames and following the relevant financial policy and procedure.
• Monitor work order costs and document and validate variances to maintenance estimates.

People & Development

• Employees have a responsibility for developing their own careers within the Company including completing all necessary function, compliance and business standards training to enhance their knowledge, skills, and experience.
• Employees should engage on a regular basis with their line manager to discuss their personal performance, objectives, and opportunities to enhance their skills and experience to support their career potential.

Vision & Leadership

• Demonstrates leadership, ethical behaviour, and adherence to Weatherford standards at all times.
• Lead and mentor lower-level schedulers and production managers as appropriate.

Required

• 8+ years planning/scheduling experience in an MRP-driven environment.
• Knowledgeable in work processes for Notification Management, Work Order Management, Maintenance Planning and Scheduling.
• Demonstrated strong communication skills, ability to communicate at various levels within the organization.
• Must be able to read, write and speak in English.
• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to work as part of a team.
• Good working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Solid understanding of Materials Requirement Planning (MRP).
• Solid, proven organizational, project management and leadership skills.
• Ability to travel up to 30-40% in Europe/Africa/Caspian.

Preferred

• Accredited 4-year college degree Manufacturing Engineering/Mechanical Engineering/Industrial Engineering or other related fields or relevant industry experience.
• Experience with MRP/ERP Software preferred.
• Lean or Green Belt Six Sigma certification.
• APICS Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) or APICS Certified Supply chain Professional (CSCP).
• JDE Working Knowledge.

About Us

Weatherford is a leading global energy services company. Our world‑class experts partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the full potential of their assets. Across our operating locations, including manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities, operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility, and responsibility to any energy operation. When you join Weatherford, you instantly feel connected to something bigger – a community that is grounded by our core values and driven to create innovative solutions for our customers. We celebrate each other’s successes, grow together, and learn from each other constantly. Individually, we are impressive. Together, we are unstoppable. We are One Weatherford.

Weatherford is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Management and Manufacturing

Industries: Oil and Gas