Head of Scheduling (m/f/d)

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To face the challenges of tomorrow with ZEISS today. As part of the Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology division, our high-precision DUV lithography optics contribute significantly to enabling the next generation of microchips. At the Wetzlar site, a state-of-the-art Fab for the production of lithography optics is created with the new part of the Dillfeld. As an extension of our existing plant in Gloelstraße, a new plant with an investment volume in the higher three-digit million range was built in Dillfeld. New plants are currently being introduced, qualified and integrated into the production network; in the coming months, production will continue to increase. Wetzlar thus assumes a central role in the further expansion of the DUV production – from optical production to assembly and adjustment to increasingly automated, digitally supported and scalable value added. In this key role, you take responsibility for the production control at the Wetzlar site. You ensure that production plans, capacities, bottlenecks and event risks become visible at an early stage and are transferred to clear, effective control decisions. This will make you a decisive contribution to the delivery reliability, planability and viability of the Wetzlar site and support the further upswing and the sustainable performance of our DUV value creation.

You take over the technical and disciplinary leadership of the Manufacturing Control team and develop the employees in a targeted manner so that You can meet current and future requirements safely, independently and effectively. With your team, you create transparency about production plans, schedules, capacities, bottlenecks and progress and ensure that clear priorities and effective control decisions are derived therefrom. You strengthen cooperation with product planning, production areas and interface partners and develop the existing control processes together with the team in order to improve delivery reliability, transparency and ability to act sustainably. You establish clear standards, roles and responsibilities in production control and promote a working method that is geared to liability, ownership, data quality and continuous improvement. You enable your team to safely apply and actively develop digital tools, data-based control logics and new systems – with the aim of effectively exploiting the opportunities of an increasingly digital production world and successfully mastering their challenges.

Your profile You have a successfully completed degree in the field of economic engineering, production technology, supply chain management or a comparable technical qualification, for example as a technician or business economist. You bring together multi-year, detectable leadership experience in production control, production planning, disposition or in a comparable operational control function and have already taken responsibility for employees, priorities, results and change processes. You have demonstrated that you have managed, built, shaped or successfully developed a team and can prove that you have enabled employees to become more self-responsibility, cooperation and performance through coaching, clear orientation and effective leadership. You have a sound understanding of capacity management, timing, bottleneck management and cross-departmental voting and are able to derive clear control impulses, priorities and decisions for your team. You bring significant change and digitization skills and can show how you have introduced, anchored or used digital solutions, data quality, modern control tools or systems such as Power BI and SAP S/4HANA in an organization. You lead clear, binding and value-estimating, communicate address-oriented and create orientation even in complex situations. In doing so, you combine operational enforcement with the ability to take people along and implement sustainable improvements together. Very good knowledge of German and good knowledge of English in word and writing complete your profile. .