Production Scheduling Supervisor
About The Position
The Production Scheduling Supervisor oversees a scheduling team to plan, sequence, and coordinate plant operations, ensuring finished goods are manufactured and shipped on time to meet customer and inventory requirements. This role involves maintaining an accurate capacity model, facilitating cross-functional communication between supply chain, operations, and order entry, and mentoring team members on scheduling best practices. The supervisor will also lead on-site transaction accuracy monitoring and support year-end inventory activity, working cooperatively with other departments to achieve optimal safety, quality, on-time delivery, and process efficiency/cost.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (preferred) with 3-5 years’ experience in a continuous manufacturing supply chain professional role (strongly preferred) OR High School Diploma/GED equivalent with 4-6 years’ experience in a continuous manufacturing production scheduling role
- Creative, Detailed, and Proactive Problem Solver
- Intermediate+ skill in Excel (preferred)
- ERP Supply Chain experience required (Epicor strongly preferred)
- Strong mathematical and analytical skills
- Pattern recognition and ability to develop actionable insights from data.
- Interpersonal skills and ability to build and improve trusting relationships.
- Multi-lingual English/Japanese strongly preferred
- Wear appropriate PPE in manufacturing areas.
- Promptly report any observed safety issues: conditions or behavior.
- Learn and follow all plant safety rules and guidelines
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree
- Intermediate+ skill in Excel
- Epicor ERP experience
- Multi-lingual English/Japanese
Responsibilities
- Drive cross training within production scheduling team
- Seek deeper understanding and better use of tools in standard systems
- Lead streamlining and automating production scheduling tasks
- Lead team to maintain and publish production plan at the agreed upon cadence to fulfil sales demand signals and meet semifinished and finished goods targets over time
- Drive efficiency by reducing complexity and changes across operations
- Load Forecast and Master production schedule input to ERP system, Maintain and publish related annual build plan projecting inventory levels and purchasing signals
- Ensure clear and current work instructions for production scheduling are maintained
- Support and lead purchasing activities when buyer/schedulers are part of the team
- Maintain and publish data and trends for key performance indicators
- Find root cause of failures, recommend process improvements, and support efforts to improve processes
- Communicate data accuracy concerns regarding master data for parts, subassemblies, and final assemblies in the ERP system. (Including but not limited to: Bill of Materials, Routes, Waste Factors, Safety Stocks, Lead Times, Min and Max quantities, Planning Horizons, Lot Sizes, Production Calendars, Methods, and Shift Schedules)
- Lead on site transaction accuracy monitoring and support year-end inventory activity
- Work cooperatively with other departments in pursuit of best safety, quality, on-time delivery, and process efficiency/cost.
- Communicate plan and changes to the plan to upper management.
- Participate in projects and other activities as requested by manager.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
