Production Scheduler

Essential Job Functions:

• Create, maintain, and communicate the daily, weekly, and monthly production plans to plant leadership and the supply chain team, including ERP work order entry.
• Collaborate with the procurement team as needed to ensure any shifts in production plans coincide with materials planning.
• Collaborate with the supply chain team to manage make to stock and make to order strategy and management of finished goods inventory.
• Provide timely and accurate promise dates for finished goods availability against open orders.
• Provide reporting of KPI’s and metrics associated with production schedule compliance, order fulfillment lead times, inventory management, and others.
• Schedule the production of work in process material in appropriate quantity and timing to support finished goods production plan.
• Provide manufacturing team with all necessary documentation, labeling, etc to complete scheduled production.
• Active member of the SIOP team.
• Key participant in physical inventory process
• Execute work order completions in ERP system accurately and timely.
• Work closely with the supply chain team and plant operations management to coordinate needed outages for both PM and repair work.
• Performs other related duties assigned

Requirements:

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• Minimum of two years of experience working in a manufacturing or warehouse setting
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills to lead cross-functional collaboration initiatives
• Excellent communicator to convey production schedules, constraints and participate in local plant teams and corporate teams. Fluent in English.
• Capability to understand complex production systems and material balances associated with inventory and BOM
• Skilled in the use of MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, MS Word, ERP systems (Oracle a plus), virtual conferencing
• Excellent leadership skills and demonstrate high level of personal ownership for delivering upon business requirements
• Demonstrated commitment to safety for them and coworkers
• Experience understanding and preparing analytical reports, and using data to make production decisions
• Ability to handle and prioritize multiple tasks.
• Proficiency with computers.
• Ability to create and understand reports to make production decisions.
• A desire to promote the success of the organization and production staff.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk; navigate stairs or ladders and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to ten pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to twenty pounds, and rarely lift and/or move more than twenty-five pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Verdesian Life Sciences is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex, and sexual orientation.