Production Scheduler

MILL ROCK PACKAGING INC.•Hutchinson, MN

7d•$60,000 - $70,000•Onsite

About The Position

As a Scheduler, you’ll be based in the office at our Hutchinson, MN facility and report to the Operations Director. In this role, you’ll play a key part in planning and maintaining orderly production schedules to meet customer demands, maximize production efficiencies, and maximize throughput, ultimately helping us deliver exceptional packaging solutions that make a difference for our customers. Our Scheduler is the “hub” that keeps all team members aligned.

Requirements

Three plus years’ experience with scheduling in a complex manufacturing environment.
Thorough knowledge of litho printing as well as die-cutting, laminating and gluing preferred.
Embraces Continuous Improvement.
Computer literate with experience using the Microsoft Office Suite.
High school diploma or equivalent.

Nice To Haves

Experience in finite scheduling software (such as Printflow)
Experience in Packaging Manufacturing

Responsibilities

Responsible for promptly confirming and communicating On-Time Manufacturing (OTM) dates to Coordinators. Also responsible for communicating when OTM dates have changed.
Apply analytical thinking to balance capacity, customer demand, and production constraints.
Ensures that production schedules are sequenced to meet customer commitments, maximize production efficiencies, and maximize throughput.
Distributes the production schedules for the next 24 hours to each machine, the Supervisors, and Leads.
Escalates to management when production lead times extend for key customer accounts and key value streams. Makes recommendations to reduce these lead times.
Provides plans for production shortfalls and gains, alters schedules accordingly, and communicates changes to appropriate personnel and departments to resolve issues that may cause delays or disruptions.
Works with production management to schedule overtime to satisfy customer requirements.
Coordinates machine down time with department supervisors, maintenance and planning.
Ensures commitments made to customers can be achieved and presents options when commitments are in jeopardy.
Continuously monitors and reports on actual production make-ready and run speeds vs. estimated time in scheduling system where the goal is to have estimates and actuals align as closely as possible.
Collaborate with production supervisors to make schedule adjustments based on changing conditions, while achieving OTM dates.
Promptly responds to customer expedite requests and communicates to Coordinators any changes to OTM dates.
Develop and maintain a detailed understanding of production processes, equipment, and capabilities.
Leads daily production meetings.
Initiates action to prevent quality problems, contributes to possible solutions, and verifies implementation of solutions.
Controls further processing when a quality problem is identified.
Evaluates and identifies opportunities to drive process improvements that positively impact the customer’s experience and improve internal processes and systems.