The Associate Plant Scheduler is responsible for planning, monitoring, and adjusting the production schedule to maintain profitability, meet internal and external deadlines and ensure client satisfaction.

Responsibilities:

• Production Monitoring. Monitors and adjusts production schedule while upholding critical deadlines. Provides on-call production support on nights & weekends as schedule demands.
• Communication. Participates in, or conducts production meetings with all necessary business units to effectively communicate the proposed schedule and navigate potential roadblocks.
• Strategy. Forecasts long-term production schedule based on sales input via Order Management tool and inputs into a scheduling tool. Works with Sales to accommodate new work or changes to existing work.
• Planning. Analyzes production specifications and plant capacity data to organize the most efficient production plan. Responsible for planning downtime and coordination with the maintenance department.
• Provides on call production support on nights & weekends as schedule demands.

Qualifications: 

• High School Diploma preferred
• 1 year of manufacturing experience in the print industry preferred
• Computer knowledge and basic math skills required
• Able to work well in high-pressure situations with tight deadlines.
• Process planning skills, with experience overseeing processes from start to finish
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills
• Detail-oriented, self-directed, and able to work through barriers to accomplish goals.

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