Production Scheduler
- Tonawanda, NY
- $73,125-121,875 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Schedule production across multiple shifts to include:
- Establish daily production plan(s)
- Track orders and production information, adjust as necessary
- Maintain superior customer satisfaction through on-time if full delivery
- Daily coordination with production, customer service, graphics, maintenance, and shipping
- Responsible for ensuring maximum utilization and efficiency of all assets, including:
- Maintain maximum possible total product availability
- Maintain flexibility to make optimum use of assets
- Help control business cost through schedule/mix management
- minimize freight costs through disciplined schedule management
- minimize paper waste and paper substitutions
- minimize downtime, change orders, and manpower
- Optimize the network through proactive order management flexing between locations and assets resulting in increased throughput, decreased cost to serve and maximum service
- Create and maintain reports for above responsibilities ensuring alignment to goals
- Generate machine capacity plans as part of the Demand & Supply Planning ProcessAnalyze machine run metrics to ensure availability is consistent with demand
- Manage and update the speed and availability data by machine that drive the supply demand model in support of the IBP process
- Report capacity allocation by account for those where capacity is reserved
- Collaborate with all functional business units to ensure alignment of strategic initiatives
- In sold out cycles, work w/ Customer Support and Inventory management to maximize sales order/replenishment and execute customer priorities.
- In under sold cycles, work with Customer Support, Demand, and Inventory management teams to identify opportunities to optimally utilize available capacity.
- Maintain standards, rules, exceptions, and customer tolerances
- Perform other duties as assigned by manager that fall within the scope and level of role
- Bachelor's degree Preferred
- APICS Certification Preferred
- 1-5 years' experience in a process manufacturing environment (scheduling preferred)
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively
- Ability to plan and organizing workload
- Corporate culture based on integrity, respect, accountability, and excellence.
- Comprehensive training with numerous learning and development opportunities.
- An attractive salary reflecting skills, competencies, and potential.
- Benefits package to include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k with match, tuition reimbursement, employee discounts, employee referral bonus, and much more!
- A career with a global packaging company where Sustainability, Safety and Inclusion are business drivers and foundational elements of the daily work.