Production Scheduler

Linetec

Summary of Position:  Conduct daily production scheduling activities that supports the sales and operations planning while maximizing labor usage and ensuring a high level of customer service. Work with manufacturing leaders to ensure optimal schedule levels in accordance with plant capacity and key performance indicators.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. 

• Sequence production orders for production floor onto daily schedule
• Ensure materials are available for planned schedule, and plan shipping requirements to meet scheduled ship dates
• Review upcoming schedules and determine action to fill and/or balance jobs to fall within production capacity.
• Monitor the current day’s schedule for updates and evaluate changes needed for priorities of work
• Batch orders into production jobs to initial start dates for production lines
• Released batched jobs to production schedules
• Review various planning reports to understand and calculate future demand and actions to be taken to accommodate to meet customer needs
• Move jobs on schedule when necessary, watching ship dates
• Process production order changes
• Create DMR (Damaged Material Report) operations for replacement of damaged material to be scheduled and meet on time and complete requirement
• Interface with Inside Sales and production personnel in order to meet customer requirements
• Implement proactive improvement of processes and procedures to maximize capacity to improve results of key metrics and customer satisfaction.
• Support Lean and the continuous improvement process
• Apply Lean principles in own work performance and drive Lean applications in company operations.
• Other duties may be assigned

Qualifications – To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge,

           

Education and Experience –

• High school graduate or equivalent
• Former production scheduling experience preferred
• Related work experience in a public manufacturing entity

           

            Special Skills -

• Interpersonal communication skills (verbal and written)
• Team player, willing to cross train and take on new assignments
• Computer proficiency –Excel, Outlook, ERP/MRP,

Work Environment:

Usual office working conditions with occasional (5%) exposure to the production environment (heat, operating machinery and noise).  Office duties require sitting behind a desk, performing tasks on a computer.  Position involves limited travel.  No significant physical exertion required.

Supervisory Responsibility (if any)

 None

Other Duties As Assigned

Apogee is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Apogee and our brands are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.