Master Production Scheduler

Echo Lake Foods, Inc. • Burlington, WI

7d • Onsite

About The Position

Echo Lake Foods is a leading manufacturer of ready-to-eat egg products and breakfast foods, including waffles, pancakes, French toast, scrambled eggs, omelets, and egg patties, serving major retail, foodservice, and national restaurant customers across the United States. Founded in 1941 and headquartered in Burlington, Wisconsin, the company operates multiple production facilities throughout the Midwest and has built a strong reputation for quality, innovation, and customer partnerships. In 2025, Echo Lake Foods was acquired by Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., the largest producer and distributor of fresh shell eggs in the United States, marking an exciting new chapter of growth. This partnership strengthens our resources, expands our capabilities, and supports continued investment in our people, facilities, and products. Creating new opportunities for employees to grow their careers within a stable and expanding organization. We are seeking a detail-oriented and highly organized Master Production Scheduler to lead the coordination and optimization of egg processing and toast production, inventory, and distribution schedules. This key role ensures that demand is met efficiently while maintaining the highest standards of product quality, food safety, and operational performance. The Master Production Scheduler acts as the central hub between production, procurement, logistics, and sales teams—balancing egg supply and demand in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• Problem Solving
• Customer Focus
• Budget and Cost Control
• Communication Proficiency
• Managing for Results
• Regularly required to work independently as well as with and around others.
• Frequent verbal and face-to-face contact.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Primarily sedentary and requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time.
• Employees may be regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.
• Occasionally employees may be required to bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, lift, carry, pull, push and/or move objects weighing up to 20 pounds.
• Required to read, write, and interpret a variety of instructions furnished in but limited to written, oral, visual, diagram, or schedule form.
• Will work under significant time constraints, apply memorization, analysis, apply perception/comprehension skills, spontaneous thought, judgment, and manage time in completing assignments.
• Required to use decision-making skills, practically solve problems and to deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists, communicate effectively, articulate ideas, respond to inquiries, handle conflict situations, perform mathematical calculations reasonably necessary to satisfactorily perform job duties, and to make decisions based on department and organizational goals.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage daily, weekly, and monthly egg and toast production schedules based on sales forecasts, inventory levels, and capacity constraints.
• Collaborate with Operations, Sales and Procurement teams to align resources and timelines.
• Monitor and adjust schedules to account for real-time production variances, equipment downtime, or supply chain disruptions.
• Work closely with procurement to ensure availability of material and packaging.
• Coordinate internal shipments with logistics to meet customer delivery requirements and minimize storage times.
• Maintain accurate records of inventory, yields, and schedule adherence.
• Analyze production data to identify trends, inefficiencies, and opportunities for process improvement.
• Track and monitor daily liquid egg supply- identify risks, challenges and opportunities.
• Ensure compliance with food safety, quality, and customer expectations

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed