Planner / Scheduler

Overhead Door • Pensacola, FL

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About The Position

This role is responsible for managing and optimizing the production schedule to meet sales forecasts and customer orders. The Planner/Scheduler will retrieve orders, establish production sequences, analyze specifications, and monitor material requirements to ensure timely delivery.

Requirements

• 6-12 months of related planning experience.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skillset.

Responsibilities

• Retrieves orders from sales processing center, reviews orders and records in appropriate logging format.
• Initiates work order requests for material and works with Inventory / Planning clerks.
• Establishes sequence and lead times of each operation to meet shipping dates according to sales forecasts or customer orders.
• Analyzes production specifications and production capacity data and performs calculations to determine manufacturing processes and tools.
• Plans and schedules workflow for each operation according to previously established manufacturing sequences and lead times.
• Confers with Production Supervisor to determine status of assigned projects or production runs.
• Expedites operations that delay schedules and alters schedules to meet unforeseen conditions.
• Identifies and monitors material requirements.
• Prepares production reports.
• Prepares work orders to obtain raw and sourced material.

What This Job Offers

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