Production Scheduler

PRODUCTION SCHEDULER

Essential Duties

• Evaluating sales orders, inventory, and delivery schedules to create production schedules.
• Forecast production amounts to ensure product availability for short lead time orders.
• Creating work orders used to estimate the amount of material, equipment, and labor required for production.
• Promptly addressing and resolving production issues to minimize delays in production.
• Coordinating production operations in accordance with material, labor, and equipment availability.
• Making changes to production schedules to ensure that production deadlines are met.
• Compiling status and performance reports and submitting them to management in a timely manner.
• Promptly informing the relevant departments of changes to current production schedules.

**Job Specific Duties & Responsibilities: **

• Use ERP (D-365) systems to determine enter and maintain work orders for scanning and manufacturing requirements.
• Evaluate excess product reports to determine root cause and take corrective action.
• Review inventory for raw materials and ingredients to determine available items for production.
• Create production schedule to meet the needs of customers while considering labor, raw material, and capacity restrictions
• Adjust production schedule, as needed, to accommodate production or equipment delays, changing priorities,
• or other reasons.
• Work with multiple departments, such as Production, QA, Procurement, Warehouse, Sales and Shipping, to ensure all Food Safety and Customer requirements are met.

Qualified candidates must meet the following requirements:

• High School Diploma, college degree preferred.
• Previous planning, scheduling, or administrative experience preferred.
• Familiarity with requirements in a food facility a plus.
• Strong Computer Skills a must, especially in Excel, Word, Power BI, and Outlook.
• Ability to gather, consolidate, and utilize data from a variety of different sources.
• Experience working with ERP and MRP systems required, knowledge in WMS is preferred.
• Must have strong communication and math skills.
• Bi-lingual preferred
• Must be able to work independently and with minimal supervision.
• Required to be responsive after hours by text, phone, and email.
• Must have good organizational and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication skills required. Must be able to work with different departments within all levels of the company.

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be able to work at a computer for extended periods of time.