Associate, Production Planning

Westlake • Elkland, PA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Production Scheduler is responsible for creating, maintaining, and executing detailed daily and weekly production schedules. This role converts production plans into actionable schedules, sequences work orders, and coordinates plant-floor activities to ensure efficient execution, schedule adherence, and on-time delivery.

Requirements

• Ability to be an effective team player and manage relationships with team and key business partners
• Strategic thinking and planning skills
• Excellent communication, presentation, and organizational skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Detailed problem-solving, independent judgement, and decision-making skills
• Excellent time management skills
• Effectively juggles multiple jobs and varied requests in a day
• Ability to take complete ownership of multiple projects and multi-task with minimal oversight
• Possess the ability to influence others to get key initiatives completed while working
• Strong prioritization, organization, and planning skills with attention to detail
• Must be able to understand production workflows, scheduling techniques, inventory management, production standards, and process management
• Must have strong internal and external customer service skills
• Must be well-organized, detail oriented, and a self-starter with demonstrated capacity to learn new technologies and work successfully in a team environment
• Operate a computer or other keyboard instrument
• Proficiency in MS Office (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word)
• Experience compiling and presenting scheduling documentation and data in Excel, Word, etc.
• Strong understanding of production workflows and manufacturing processes
• Associates degree preferred; equivalent work experience acceptable
• 1 - 3 years' experience in functional role
• Experience working in an ERP environment required

Nice To Haves

• Lean manufacturing experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain daily and weekly production schedules for assigned manufacturing areas
• Sequence work orders based on priorities, equipment availability, labor, and material readiness
• Communicate daily production priorities to supervisors and plant leadership
• Monitor shop-floor execution and adjust schedules to address delays, downtime, or shortages
• Track schedule adherence and escalating issues that impact customer commitments
• Coordinate with Customer Service on order status, availability, and delivery risks
• Release, update, and close production work orders in the ERP system
• Maintain visibility of production, inventory movement, and shipping status
• Generate and distribute production and scheduling reports for management
• Support continuous improvement initiatives related to scheduling efficiency and execution
• All other tasks assigned by manager

Benefits

• Westlake offers you the potential to enrich your work life and career experience in an entrepreneurial environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree