Salary Dependent upon experience

Material Planner/Scheduler duties include:

• Plan, schedule, coordinate and/or monitor the flow of products through the complete production cycle. Provide timely planning, scheduling, and inventory levels to achieve customer delivery dates.
• Performs planning and scheduling functions involved with confirming ship schedules on customer orders
• Process production reporting entries to update inventory levels in ERP system
• Plans production schedules, labor loading and capacity requirements
• Develop run strategies that increase throughput while controlling inventory levels.
• Facilitate communication and action to resolve supply constraints and/or bottlenecks and assists with necessary corrective actions.
• Communicate with suppliers to expedite material requirements.
• Collaborate and partner with internal departments to optimize scheduling
• Provides status updates to customers and expedite orders per requests
• Communicate critical gaps and delivery constraints
• Manufacturing operations to learn and understand the process and what products can run together to better set up the schedule
• Develop attainable schedules and issue work orders to meet production needs
• Communicate when orders are fulfilled and schedule shipping.
• Able to perform shipping duties and be backup as needed for shipping
• Use ERP system to schedule whenever possible. When not, create Excel spreadsheets to show a live production schedule, plan, and estimated completion dates.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

• Previous experience in a Planner/scheduler role working for a direct manufacturer
• High level of proficiency in Excel spreadsheets, Word, Outlook and other software programs necessary to perform job
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong sense of urgency and attention to detail
• Use strong analytical skills and attention to detail to make business decisions
• Ability to problem solve and work efficiently under pressure
• Ability to interact effectively with internal and external customers
• Highly organized
• Ability to self-direct and take constructive action in ambiguous situations

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $22.00 - $27.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Work Location: In person