Production Planner/Scheduler

Eclipse Advantage • Belle Isle, FL

85d • $18 - $25

About The Position

The Production Planner/Scheduler responsibilities include creating and adjusting production schedules based on sales orders, inventory, and delivery timelines to ensure timely product availability. This role uses ERP systems (Axapta) to manage work orders and coordinates with departments like Production, QA, Procurement, and Shipping to meet customer and food safety requirements. Additional tasks include forecasting production needs, resolving production issues, reviewing raw material inventory, and analyzing excess product reports to implement corrective actions.

Requirements

• High School Diploma, college degree preferred.
• Previous planning, scheduling, or administrative experience preferred.
• Familiarity with requirements in a food facility a plus.
• Strong Computer Skills a must, especially in Excel, Word, Power BI, and Outlook.
• Ability to gather, consolidate, and utilize data from a variety of different sources.
• Experience working with ERP and MRP systems required, knowledge in WMS is preferred.
• Must have strong communication and math skills.
• Bi-lingual preferred.
• Must be able to work independently and with minimal supervision.
• Required to be responsive after hours by text, phone, and email.
• Must have good organizational and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication skills required.
• Must be able to work with different departments within all levels of the company.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Use ERP (Axapta) 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.

Benefits

• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance: Comprehensive coverage for employees and their families.
• Retirement Plans: A 401k with employer matching.
• Voluntary benefits: Life, accident, and disability products available for employee and dependents.
• Referral Bonus: Earn $50 for every successful referral after they complete 80 hours of work. No limit on the number of referrals.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Support Activities for Transportation
• Education Level: High school or GED