Production Scheduler

Datwyler

About The Position

The Production Scheduler is responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing the production schedule to ensure efficient use of labor, equipment, and materials. This role coordinates closely with Production, Supply Chain, Quality, and Maintenance to meet customer delivery requirements while minimizing downtime, inventory imbalances, and workflow disruptions. Essential Functions Scheduling & Shop Floor Management Creates and updates daily, weekly, and long-term production schedules based on customer demand, material availability, and capacity constraints. Converts production plans based on ales orders into executable production schedules for mixing, molding, trimming, prewash, coating and cleanroom operations. Sequences jobs to maximize throughput and minimize changeovers, bottlenecks, and delays to meet sales order goods issue dates and/or management priority targets. Coordinates with maintenance to schedule downtime for changeover, cleaning, maintenance, and repair of tooling and equipment. Identifies scheduling conflicts, capacity shortages, and material gaps; propose and coordinate solutions. Identifies opportunities for improvement to increase produce-to-plan performance. Maintains and reports relevant, scheduling-related metrics (e.g., produce to plan, WIP queue status, etc.). Coordination & Communication Collaborates with Production Manager, Supervisors, and Leads to ensure alignment on labor and equipment availability. Collaborates with Maintenance and Tooling departments to ensure efficient scheduling of changeovers, cleaning, maintenance, repairs, etc. Communicates schedule changes, priorities, and risks to all relevant teams. Works with Supply Chain to confirm availability of raw materials, components, and WIP, and ensure enough WIP material is available to complete weekly schedule. Provides completed sales order goods issue dates to Supply Chain on a weekly basis. Performs a weekly cycle count of WIP materials. Data Management & Reporting Maintains accurate scheduling information in ERP/MES systems. Monitors and report daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly schedule adherence and summarize causes of downtime or missed targets. Develops and generate daily and weekly reports on production performance, capacity utilization, and anticipated constraints. Tracks, reports and adjusts WIP levels and coordinate movement to maintain flow and prevent backlog. Continuous Improvement Supports lean manufacturing initiatives related to workflow optimization, standard work, and process stability. Implements and manages WIP lanes to feed prewash and cleanroom. Recommends improvements to scheduling logic, workflows, and planning tools. Participate in root-cause investigations when schedule disruptions occur. Addition Functions Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Associate or Bachelor’s degree in Operations Management, Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field (preferred).
2–5 years of experience in production planning, scheduling, or manufacturing coordination.
Experience with SAP and MES systems required.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-variability production environment.
Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration.
Proficiency with Excel, scheduling tools, and data analysis.
High attention to detail and accuracy.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

Responsibilities

Creates and updates daily, weekly, and long-term production schedules based on customer demand, material availability, and capacity constraints.
Converts production plans based on ales orders into executable production schedules for mixing, molding, trimming, prewash, coating and cleanroom operations.
Sequences jobs to maximize throughput and minimize changeovers, bottlenecks, and delays to meet sales order goods issue dates and/or management priority targets.
Coordinates with maintenance to schedule downtime for changeover, cleaning, maintenance, and repair of tooling and equipment.
Identifies scheduling conflicts, capacity shortages, and material gaps; propose and coordinate solutions.
Identifies opportunities for improvement to increase produce-to-plan performance.
Maintains and reports relevant, scheduling-related metrics (e.g., produce to plan, WIP queue status, etc.).
Collaborates with Production Manager, Supervisors, and Leads to ensure alignment on labor and equipment availability.
Collaborates with Maintenance and Tooling departments to ensure efficient scheduling of changeovers, cleaning, maintenance, repairs, etc.
Communicates schedule changes, priorities, and risks to all relevant teams.
Works with Supply Chain to confirm availability of raw materials, components, and WIP, and ensure enough WIP material is available to complete weekly schedule.
Provides completed sales order goods issue dates to Supply Chain on a weekly basis.
Performs a weekly cycle count of WIP materials.
Maintains accurate scheduling information in ERP/MES systems.
Monitors and report daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly schedule adherence and summarize causes of downtime or missed targets.
Develops and generate daily and weekly reports on production performance, capacity utilization, and anticipated constraints.
Tracks, reports and adjusts WIP levels and coordinate movement to maintain flow and prevent backlog.
Supports lean manufacturing initiatives related to workflow optimization, standard work, and process stability.
Implements and manages WIP lanes to feed prewash and cleanroom.
Recommends improvements to scheduling logic, workflows, and planning tools.
Participate in root-cause investigations when schedule disruptions occur.
Other duties as assigned