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Geozone Master Planner
Weatherford
Whiterashes, Scotland, United Kingdom["Full time"]
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Job Overview:
Weatherford have a great opportunity for an experienced Master Planner to join
the team in Aberdeen. The Geozone Master Planner will be responsible for
developing and implementing comprehensive planning strategies for Weatherford's
operations in the Geozone.
This role requires a unique blend of technical knowledge, strategic thinking,
and collaborative skills to ensure operational excellence and maximize
efficiency across multiple product lines and service offerings.
The Master Planner acts as the individual-contributor integrator for R&M
planning across the Geozone, connecting the rolling 3–12-month demand outlook to
the executable 90-day business plan. The role provides functional direction
through dotted-line relationships with Geozone Planners and the Master
Scheduler, without direct people-management accountability.
Responsibilities:
• Develop and maintain master schedules for all operational activities within
the assigned Geozone, ensuring optimal resource utilization and service
delivery.
• Coordinate cross-functional planning activities between operations,
maintenance, logistics, and support functions.
• Analyze historical data and forecast future demand to optimize workforce
planning, equipment utilization, and inventory management.
• Implement and maintain planning systems and processes that align with
Weatherford's global standards while addressing local operational
requirements.
• Collaborate with sales teams to ensure operational capacity aligns with
commercial opportunities and client commitments.
• Identify and resolve scheduling conflicts, resource constraints, and
operational bottlenecks.
• Develop KPIs and metrics to measure planning effectiveness and drive
continuous improvement.
• Provide regular reporting on operational performance, resource utilization,
and planning efficiency.
• Support emergency response planning and ensure business continuity during
operational disruptions.
• Liaise with global planning teams to ensure alignment with corporate
objectives and best practices.
• Lead the monthly Geozone S&OP demand and supply review, aligning Product
Line, Operations, Finance, R&M, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Asset
Management.
• Consolidate budget, HFM, operational requirements, asset plans, project plans
and repair forecasts into one rolling 3–12-month demand outlook by product
line and asset family.
• Own and maintain the integrated 90-day business plan, including forecast,
pre-job and released work-order demand.
• Balance labor, equipment, tooling and material constraints through rough-cut
or finite-capacity planning and what-if analysis.
• Govern the Day-0 work-order readiness gate covering materials, capacity,
tooling, routing, BOM/SBOM, master data and cost readiness.
• Drive future material readiness beyond 90 days and ensure major projects and
repair programs have an identified MTS, MTO, redeployment or sourcing
strategy.
• Review MTS service health, including fill rate, stockouts, at-risk inventory
and stock below shelf target; recommend MTS, ROP, safety-stock or
stocking-policy changes through global governance.
• Coordinate with MRP Planners on DRP exception health, OQ-to-OR-to-PO
conversion, supplier commitments, late-PO exposure, redeployment and shortage
recovery.
• Drive Geozone inventory optimization, including inventory value, turns,
consumption discipline, non-moving inventory, E&O and redeployment.
• Provide functional priorities and operating-model guidance to Geozone
Planners and the Master Scheduler through dotted-line relationships; the
position has no direct reports.
• Ensure clear handovers across long-term demand planning, material/MRP
planning, master scheduling and shop execution while preserving each role’s
defined accountability.
• Identify master-data improvements for lead times, MOQ, sourcing rules,
routing, standard hours, BOM/SBOM and inventory parameters.
• Support implementation and adoption of advanced or finite-capacity planning
tools and standardized digital dashboards.
Qualifications & Experience Required
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Operations
Management, or related field.
• Minimum 5-7 years of experience in planning, scheduling, or operations
management roles within the oil and gas industry.
• Demonstrated experience with planning and resource management systems (SAP,
Maximo, or similar ERP systems).
• Strong understanding of North Sea operations and the specific challenges of
the UKCS environment.
• Experience with lean methodologies and continuous improvement processes.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data sets
and translate them into actionable insights.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to
influence across organizational boundaries.
• Proven ability to work effectively in a matrix organization and manage
multiple priorities.
• Experience leading S&OP or integrated planning and converting demand into
material, capacity and execution plans.
• Working knowledge of ERP/MRP processes, including JDE or equivalent,
forecasting, work orders, DRP/MRP messages and inventory parameters.
• Ability to provide functional leadership through dotted-line relationships
without direct reporting authority.
• Experience with MTS/MTO policy, ROP, material readiness, inventory
optimization and capacity scenario planning.
• Advanced Excel and business-intelligence capability for scenario analysis,
KPI reporting and decision support.
• Travel required up to 30% across the Geozone.
Qualifications & Experience Preferred:
• Master's degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, or related
field.
• Professional certification in project management (PMP, PRINCE2) or supply
chain management (CSCP, CPIM).
• Experience with advanced planning and scheduling software.
• Knowledge of offshore logistics and personnel movement planning.
• Understanding of HSE requirements in the oil and gas industry.
• Experience working with integrated service contracts and performance-based
models.
• Experience with finite-capacity or advanced-planning tools such as Kinaxis,
o9 or CyberPlan.
• Experience establishing planning gates, role handovers, standard cadences and
cross-functional escalation paths.
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.
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