A0313 Production Scheduler 2

RR Donnelley•Lewisville, TX

21h•Onsite

About The Position

RRD is a leading global provider of marketing, packaging, print, and supply chain solutions that elevate engagement across the complete customer journey. The company offers the industry’s most trusted portfolio of creative execution and world-wide business process consulting, with services designed to lower environmental impact. With 22,000 clients, including 93% of the Fortune 100, and 32,000 employees across 28 countries, RRD brings the expertise, execution, and scale designed to transform customer touchpoints into meaningful moments of impact. This role involves scheduling work to run on manufacturing equipment for areas such as Prepress, Press, and Bindery/Finishing. The Production Scheduler will review daily production output, make adjustments to schedules, and ensure customer delivery dates are met. They will also provide daily reports to production departments for planning staffing and materials.

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.
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.
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.
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.
Very good oral and written communication skills sufficient to explain departmental policy, methods and/or procedures when completing assignments.
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

Schedule work to run on manufacturing equipment for one or more of the following areas: Prepress, Press, Bindery/Finishing.
Review daily production output and make adjustments/updates to daily/weekly forecasted schedules.
Move work around as needed while maintaining customer delivery dates.
Provide daily reports/updates that are used by the production departments to run work and plan staffing, materials etc.
Optimize workflow by matching the equipment capabilities closely to the specification of the customer work.
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.
Re-schedule work to different slots/equipment in the event of unplanned situations such as equipment failures, missing components or raw materials etc.
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.