Supply Chain Scheduler

Makers Pride•Romeoville, IL

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Performs production scheduling and planning functions for the facility. This entails daily finite scheduling, short term and long-term capacity planning and interactions with internal stakeholders in support of meeting production requirements. Acts as key liaison with all customers working collaboratively with customer planning teams to ensure facility meets attainment of customer demand requirements on an ongoing basis.

Requirements

Solid Communication Skills are critical.
Critical-Thinking Skills are key.
Organizational Skills are a must.
Problem-Solving Skills required.
Prior experience with ERP systems is required.
Microsoft Excel at an intermediate or advanced level is required.
Candidate’s responsibility to ensure they are legally authorized to work in the location to which they apply.

Nice To Haves

Associate or undergraduate degree preferred in Supply Chain or Operations preferred and/or relevant work experience of at least 2-3 years in Planning and Production scheduling functions for a manufacturing organization.
Progressive experience in food and/or packaging manufacturing industry preferred.

Responsibilities

Create production orders in SAP ERP system and provide real-time feedback to facility Management Team on the plan as production executes schedule.
Responsible for creating and maintaining daily and weekly production schedules for the plant.
Leads weekly planning meeting with all internal stakeholder groups to review current plus 2 week production plans.
Provides finite 13 week rolling schedule to the plant for material, equipment and labor planning.
Maintains and distributes daily, weekly and month production reports for the plant Management Team with accurate entry of reason codes for not meeting attainment in internal and customer systems.
Sets up and maintains the machine scheduling standards and line priorities by SKU.
Sequences production orders on production lines/processes efficiently to maximize run time and effective utilization of equipment and labor.
Monitors capacity levels and overtime requirements working with internal stakeholders to ensure resources are available to meet production plans.
Seeks overtime approval before scheduling ensuring customer agrees to pay when applicable.
Identify change-overs, tool changes and material changes required for each line and communicates it in SAP and through external scheduling tools to all internal stakeholders.
Assesses capacity and ability to meet order deadlines for 5 production lines.
Works collaboratively with Supply Chain Specialists to ensure material availability to meet short term and long-term production plans.
Leads ongoing review of inventory levels and facilitates creation of aging material disposition plans.
Communicates production plan to the shop floor daily by participating in daily production meetings.
Analyzes customer demand and forecasts to create 13 weekly rolling master schedules for capacity planning, ordering of materials and labor planning.
Leads the plant 13-week capacity planning meeting in accordance to the standard work.
Works jointly with Quality Assurance and Maintenance on establishing run matrixes for sequencing SKUs on each production line and scheduling preventative maintenance activities.
Reviews new sales opportunities on current asset base to validate capacity availability in collaboration with Corporate Capacity Planning Team.
Leads weekly review of Product HOLD reports and facilities disposition of all items on HOLD log.
Provides weekly production schedule to Logistics Coordinator to facilitate effective outbound shipment plans to all customers.
Adherence to all site safety programs and practices is expected.
All other duties as assigned by facility Management.