PURPOSE: The Scheduler is responsible for all day to day planning and scheduling of production, material requirements, and inventory transactions/controls to ensure the facility is meetings Customer order deadlines and expectations. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

• Daily coordination between sales and manufacturing areas to meet shipment goals.
• Supervising and coordinating the management of raw materials and finished inventory levels throughout the production/warehousing system to achieve customer service and inventory objectives.
• Managing production schedules, inventory transactions and controls, and material requirement analyses.
• Developing and maintaining the master production plan for assigned manufacturing plants.
• Oversight and interface with Production Manager to ensure that operational capacities and production requirements meet sales and inventory requirements.
• Acting as a liaison between Manufacturing, Quality Assurance, and Customer Support in planning and resolving issues related to maintaining satisfactory inventories of impacted product lines.
• Creating, monitoring, and reporting the production and inventory status to senior management.
• Implementing procedures for handling product shortage situations.
• Communicating with Customer Service key changes in inventory position.
• Performing daily and weekly scheduling of the molding, printing, secondary processing operations and/or finished goods.
• Overseeing the daily inventory selection of product for customer orders.
• Directing the facility in the priorities and quantities to be manufactured, packaged, and/or shipped.
• Responsible for the orders into the bar code/network planning system and monitor daily production of all processes.
• Responsible for analyzing, creating, and maintaining finished inventory max/min levels based on historical sales, forecasted demand, and input from Sales, Production, and Scheduling.
• Responsible for analyzing and maintaining inventory levels of packaging materials and processing aids.
• Other duties as assigned.

In the event the Scheduler is out of the facility, Master Scheduler will assume the responsibilities.

The above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for the performance of this position.  It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements.

• Minimum High school education or equivalent experience.
• Preferred Associate’s Degree or two years of higher education in operations management or related field.
• One year of manufacturing experience in a professional level preferably in production scheduling and/or material planning.
• Good interpersonal and oral communication skills, as well as an ability to work well in a team environment.
• Good organizational skills, self-directed and self-motivated, ability to analyze and interpret data, along with work in a fast-paced environment, and meet deadlines.
• High level of experience with computer systems and spreadsheet software, such as JD Edwards, Microsoft programs.
• Equal amounts of time spent sitting, standing and walking.