Production Scheduler

Job Description

PRODUCTION SCHEDULER

Essential Duties

• Evaluating sales orders, inventory, and delivery schedules to create production schedules.
• Forecast production amounts to ensure product availability for short lead time orders.
• Creating work orders used to estimate the amount of material, equipment, and labor required for production.
• Promptly addressing and resolving production issues to minimize delays in production.
• Coordinating production operations in accordance with material, labor, and equipment availability.
• Making changes to production schedules to ensure that production deadlines are met.
• Compiling status and performance reports and submitting them to management in a timely manner.
• Promptly informing the relevant departments of changes to current production schedules.
• Job Specific Duties & Responsibilities :
• Use ERP (D-365) systems to determine enter and maintain work orders for scanning and manufacturing requirements.
• Evaluate excess product reports to determine root cause and take corrective action.
• Review inventory for raw materials and ingredients to determine available items for production.
• Create production schedule to meet the needs of customers while considering labor, raw material, and capacity restrictions
• Adjust production schedule, as needed, to accommodate production or equipment delays, changing priorities,
• or other reasons.
• Work with multiple departments, such as Production, QA, Procurement, Warehouse, Sales and Shipping, to ensure all Food Safety and Customer requirements are met.

Qualified candidates must meet the following requirements :

Physical Requirements :