Shift Scheduler

Responsibilities

• Schedule all accepted orders to promote efficient equipment utilization, minimize inventories, and meet customer delivery requirements.
• Communicate schedules in a timely manner to all operating departments.
• Generate and distribute daily production and inventory reports.
• Ensure proper sequencing of work roll campaigns with coordinators.
• Verify sequences are aligned to cast on-time and meet rolling objectives.
• Coordinate with operations personnel to ensure slabs are sequenced properly for slab casting, rolling, and plate stacking requirements.
• Assist order expeditor by providing slabs to meet change requests.
• Review scheduled slabs to ensure the most current orders are prioritized, considering order backlog and slab yields.
• Re-plan planned stock to live orders when possible.
• Ensure unscheduled slabs are utilized to complete open orders, with approval for cross-application.
• Review unplanned orders within the desired campaign date range and ensure all orders are scheduled for production.
• Assist in expediting key customer orders.
• Support bundle reallocation based on shipping requests.
• Confirm production schedules minimize material that cannot immediately be applied to a customer order.
• Review previous day’s slab, plate, and coil production to ensure correct dispositions and application to customer orders.
• Perform reviews of all unapplied slab, plate, and coil inventories to ensure correct disposition and application to customer orders.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of steel industry experience.
• Familiarity with SSAB’s order processing and quality systems.
• Strong mathematical and analytical skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficient computer skills, including Microsoft Suite.
• Attention to detail, time-management, and organizational skills.
• Regular and reliable attendance.

Qualifications

Preferred:

• Manufacturing operations planning and inventory management experience.
• Knowledge of SSAB’s products, production processes, scheduling practices, and systems.

Education

Required: High school diploma or GED/HSE equivalent.

Preferred: Associate's and/or Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.

Work Environment and Physical Demands

• Operates primarily in an office environment using standard office equipment (computers, phones, photocopiers, scanners).
• Mostly sedentary role, but requires frequent ability to walk, bend, kneel, or stand.
• Use of hands to finger, hold, and handle materials; reach with hands and arms.
• Ability to push, pull, lift, or carry items up to 10 lbs.
• Periodic work in the mill environment with exposure to heat/cold, walking/stairs, noise, and safety equipment/clothing.
• Requires balance, stooping, kneeling, and crouching.
• Vision capabilities: near, mid, and far range.
• Hearing capabilities: in-person, phone, and group settings.

Schedule

• Full-time, hourly position eligible for overtime.
• 12-hour rotating swing shift, including nights and days.
• Office presence required.

Benefits

• Excellent pay with additional bonus.
• Affordable health insurance:
  • Blue Cross/Blue Shield Medical.
  • CVS/Caremark Prescription.
  • Delta Dental.
  • Superior Vision.
• 401(k) with 5% employer match and profit sharing.
• 10 paid holidays.
• Vacation.
• Company-paid life insurance, short-term disability (STD), and long-term disability (LTD).
• Optional life, hospital indemnity, and critical illness insurance.
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee Assistance Program.