Overview
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.
We are focused on technology development, digital solutions, and defining our footprint in the new energy space. Our ability to provide integrated solutions across our segments will be critical to growth in our core operations and the energy transition.
Energy producers face unique challenges every day, so it is our job to create solutions that enhance safety, streamline operations, and sustain uptime to meet or exceed their targets. We operate across the global energy landscape employing some of the best diverse talent in the industry. At Weatherford, we understand the value each individual brings to the table. We celebrate diversity in all its forms and are immensely proud of our workforce. We invite you to join our passionate, talented, world-class team.
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 offers competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits program and provides you a challenging and enriching career path, with a healthy balance of structure and flexibility to chart your own course.
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.
Responsibilities
Weatherford have a great opportunity for an experienced Scheduling Supervisor to join the team in Altens, Aberdeen. The Scheduling Supervisor is responsible for ensuring the timely execution of production activities on the shop floor by creating, monitoring, and adjusting the production schedule in line with demand and capacity constraints.
Roles & Responsibilities:
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 and complies with the Company's Rules to Live By.
- 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.
OPERATIONS
- Create detailed production schedules that align with demand, resource availability, and production capabilities.
- Assess capacity and workload weekly, implementing measures to prevent overload.
- Eliminate shop overload by distributing the load evenly among work centres with similar capability and establish outsourcing plan wherever needed.
- Coordinate with production to ensure schedules are realistic and achievable.
- Respond promptly to changes in demand or production disruptions, adjusting the schedule as necessary.
- Monitor production progress, ensuring that Work Order (WO) operation start/request dates are achieved as planned.
- Ensure WOs with outside process operations are sent on time to suppliers.
- Optimize production sequences to minimize lead times and maximize resource utilization.
- Collaborate with the planner to align daily production schedules with monthly and weekly production plans.
- Work with warehouse team to ensure that required materials are pulled and staged for scheduled WOs.
- Evaluate potential schedule risks and develop mitigation strategies through outsourcing.
- Provide regular updates to management on schedule adherence, highlighting any deviations and corrective actions taken.
- Monitor spare parts inventory levels and ensure availability of required materials and equipment, if applicable
- Analyse procedures and identify areas for improvement in efficiency and cost effectiveness.
- Coordinate information with other functional staff, including but not limited to, quotations, order management, engineering, accounting, planning, and human resources.
COMMUNICATION
- Maintains effective communications with all key stakeholders both internal and where appropriate external.
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.
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.
Qualifications
- Previous experience in a scheduling role, ideally within the oil & gas industry.
- Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, Industrial Engineering, or related field. Will also consider candidates with equivalent suitable experience.
- Proficient in using ERP systems and scheduling tools.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
- Proactive mindset with a focus on problem-solving and continuous improvement.
- Knowledgeable in work processes for Notification Management, Work Order Management, Maintenance Planning and Scheduling.
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel as well as Outlook, Word etc.
- Solid understanding of Materials Requirement Planning (MRP).
- Solid, proven organizational, project management and leadership skills.
- Lean or Green Belt Six Sigma certification is preferred.
- Good working knowledge of JD Edwards would be beneficial.
