Supply Chain Scheduling Specialist

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Dow has an exciting opportunity as a Supply Chain Scheduling Specialist. This role is located in Midland (MI).

In this role you will decide what, when and where to supply for multiple production sites or multiple plants at one site, within a single business or multiple smaller businesses. You will balance supply and demand over the operational horizon, to achieve optimum product availability, asset utilization and supply chain efficiencies.

In this role, you will require conceptual knowledge of theories, practices, and procedures as well as having general business knowledge developed through education or prior experience related to your discipline and functional area. You will need to have the ability to exchange straightforward information with others and ask questions to check for understanding.

It is your responsibility to use established procedures and practice to analyze and resolve standard problems. You will be accountable for assigned contributions with no direct supervisory responsibilities. Your performance impacts your own work with limited impact on your team. You will need to use established procedures and practices to achieve objectives and meet deadlines.

• Generates a time‑phased supply schedule to fulfil business requirements in the short‑term, while considering plant‑wide constraints, and meeting inventory and customer service targets
• Determines and/or executes the most effective regional or global sourcing rules.
• Where applicable, implements external manufacturing agreements or executes agreements already in place
• Owns and operates site or regional planning models (provides functional expertise for model operation; assures most efficient use of information technology)
• Serves as a local site coordinator/planner for integration of internal demand, utilities or environmental operations at a particular location
• Routinely checks and tracks inventory quantity, slow‑moving or other inventory statuses and ensures that inventory volumes meet the plan
• Identifies, prioritizes and addresses supply issues (e.g. short‑term capacity constraints, product shortage, emergency customer order received, uncovered production requirement, etc.)
• Leads collaboration with customer service, manufacturing, logistics, third‑party service providers and business partners to meet business obligations in case of unplanned events
• Ensures proper maintenance of production parameters (material masters, work centers, routings) to ensure effective planning
• Follows best practices, procedures and governance over master data
• Supports global supply chain initiatives by interfacing with other supply chain personnel in the business and shared services

• Associate Degree or 3 years or more of military training/experience
• A minimum requirement for this U.S. based position is the ability to work legally in the United States. No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of U.S. permanent residency (green card) process.

• Interpersonal Effectiveness:
  Demonstrate the ability to build strong working relationships, communicate clearly, listen actively, and interact respectfully and productively with others
• Teamwork:
  Demonstrate the ability to work effectively and collaboratively with diverse team members to achieve shared goals,
• Work Initiative:
  Implement new ways of approaching work through proactive action.
• Problem solving:
  Use data, logic, and structured methods to evaluate solutions.
• Analytics:
  Dem…