Production Scheduler

Key Responsibilities and Goals

• Develop, maintain, communicate and adjust executable production schedules across both manufacturing facilities, balancing customer demand with capacity, labor, materials, inventory and changing operational priorities.
• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain and Demand Planning to align forecasts, production plans, inventory availability, manufacturing requirements and customer-service objectives.
• Identify production constraints, supply risks and potential service impacts; communicate changes, recommendations and planning priorities proactively to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Maintain accurate planning data in ERP/MRP or production-planning systems and use planning information to improve scheduling, sequencing, resource utilization and operational performance.
• Support planning for new products, changing customer requirements, business needs, cross-functional planning meetings, continuous-improvement initiatives and other planning/supply-chain responsibilities as required.

Competencies Needed for Success

• Production planning, production scheduling or related supply-chain experience in a food manufacturing environment, including hands-on schedule ownership.
• A strong understanding of production capacity, inventory, material availability, manufacturing constraints, changing priorities and service requirements.
• Experience using ERP/MRP or related planning systems, with strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational and cross-functional communication skills.

Requirements

• 5+ years of food production experience
• 3+ years of production planning & scheduling experience
• Solid ERP & technology skills

Benefits

• $90-110k base salary plus generous annual bonus
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• 401(k)
• PTO & holiday pay