Production Scheduling Manager
About Us
Menasha Corporation is all about possibilities. Our two businesses, Menasha Packaging and ORBIS Corporation, are leaders in their industries, providing corrugated and plastic packaging products and related services to major global companies. Our employees make the difference, proving that great ideas, collaboration, and quality turn possibilities into success. Working at Menasha Corporation means that your insights provide cutting-edge solutions for our customers. If you like to make things happen and are passionate about what you do, you’re going to want to be here.
About The Opportunity
Manages the planning and establishment of production schedules, monitoring of materials inventories, tracking of progress of production, and reviewing of factors which affect production schedules.
Responsibilities
- Directs staffing, training, and performance management to develop and improve the production scheduling function
- Analyzes incoming production order requirements and oversees master manufacturing schedule for assigned site(s) to assure exceptional customer service and optimal manufacturing efficiencies
- Monitors materials inventory to effectively determine production schedules
- Communicates upcoming scheduling conflicts with key stakeholders and recommends solutions
- Collaborates with Operations team to forecast production labor overtime requirements
- Analyzes daily back-log business reports to monitor workload and capacity requirements
- Communicates schedule status and other related scheduling information at daily production meeting
- Drives continuous improvement initiatives for production scheduling process and information flow
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience required
- Knowledge of and ability to use and influence organization's policies, standards, and procedures guiding manufacturing processes
- Knowledge of methods, accepted practices, considerations, and regulatory requirements associated with safety and protection of workers, environment, and site
- Knowledge of the existing and planned approaches and methods for manufacturing products or product components
- Knowledge of day-to-day and strategic issues, operational requirements, and management of a manufacturing facility
- Knowledge of the day-to-day operations of a manufacturing plant or facility
- Knowledge of technologies and applications used in manufacturing products and in the optimization of manufacturing processes
Physical Requirements & Work Environment
Primarily works in an office environment with occasional time spent in a production and/or warehouse setting.