A0313 Production Scheduler 2

RR Donnelley•Lewisville, TX

13h•$48,500 - $70,900•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves scheduling work to run on manufacturing equipment in areas such as Prepress, Press, and Bindery/Finishing. The Production Scheduler 2 will review daily production output, make necessary adjustments and updates to daily/weekly forecasted schedules, and manage work assignments to ensure customer delivery dates are met. Daily reports and updates will be provided to production departments for staffing and material planning.

Requirements

HS Diploma or equivalent with 2+ years of relevant administrative/operational support in manufacturing operations or office environment directly related to the duties of the job.
Requires very good knowledge of general administrative/manufacturing operations procedures and knowledge of job specific processes to successfully execute and complete the more progressive/complex duties of the job.
Ability to follow company policy and understand any rules or regulations governing the work being completed and impact work has on department or company.
Must have very good knowledge of technology to include computers and software programs such as MS Office or MAC word processing, spreadsheets or other programs specific to the job in order to complete duties successfully.
Requires good knowledge of multiple functions or areas of the business in which there is frequent contact with while completing daily work assignments of the job.
Must have very good oral and written communication skills sufficient to explain departmental policy, methods and/or procedures when completing assignments.
Requires very good organizational skills sufficient to accomplish work by established deadlines and ability to coordinate phases of work with others.

Nice To Haves

EPS Platform experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Review daily/weekly production schedules and sequence/load equipment to run primarily in one of the following areas: Prepress, Press, Bindery/Finishing.
Optimize workflow by matching the equipment capabilities closely to the specification of the customer work.
Typically plan for equipment and jobs that are a mix of routine to moderately complex in nature.
Ensure that preceding requirements needed to begin running a job such as the preflight of the customer files, plating, raw materials, components are in place.
Coordinate with the appropriate departments to ensure jobs will be able to run.
Review daily production output and make adjustments/updates to daily/weekly schedules.
May engage with Planners or management when issues arise and work needs to be moved around to resolve issues.
Re-schedule work to different slots/equipment in the event of unplanned situations such as equipment failures, missing components or raw materials etc.
Provide daily reports/updates to manufacturing operations so materials and staffing are coordinated with the forecasted workloads and that sales/customer service are updated on customer projects.
May verify that materials, staffing, and logistics are in place in time for scheduled production runs.
May coordinate with vendors and/or internal resources producing components to ensure that delivery will meet the scheduled run time for the customer project.
May perform tasks related to long term planning and building of facility work plans.
Performs other related duties and participates in special projects as assigned.