Job Description:

General Statement of JobIf you want to know about the requirements for this role, read on for all the relevant information.In conjunction with customer requirements and company standards, A Production Scheduler is a professional role primarily found within manufacturing environments. This position is crucial for ensuring the smooth and efficient scheduling of production processes and resource allocation to meet business objectives and deadlines. The job description for a Production Scheduler typically includes the requirements for understanding customer quantity, delivery dates, production manufacturing/assembly capabilities and human resource requirements. Below, we outline the key responsibilities, skills, and qualifications needed for this pivotal position.Specific Duties and ResponsibilitiesEssential Job FunctionsProduction Planning and Scheduling: Develop detailed schedules for manufacturing/assembly processes, ensuring optimal use of resources and timely completion of production goals.System Utilization: Employing ERP and Heijunka systems to develop and distribute production schedules effectively.Job Travelers Management: Overseeing work orders to ensure all are completed and accurately closed with the correct WIP transactions.Perform as the primary conduit from operations to the material team for effectively transferring the communication of customer orders available for production.Provide shipping department all customer outbound schedules.Internal Expediter: Acting as an expediter for urgent jobs to ensure timely completion.Capacity Planning: Analyze production capacities and constraints to make informed decisions on scheduling, machine usage, and labor allocation.Data Analysis and Reporting: Utilize data analysis tools and software to forecast production needs, track performance metrics, and report on schedule adherence and efficiency.Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for streamlining processes, reducing waste, and improving overall scheduling and production efficiency.Stakeholder Communication: Ensuring effective communication of schedules, changes, and updates across departments.Additional Job FunctionsFollow prescribed safety rules and regulations.Perform special projects as directed.Perform other related duties as required.Minimum Qualifications and RequirementsEducation: High School diploma or GED with a minimum of 3-5 years of experience with production scheduling within a cellular manufacturing environment or 1-2 years with a technical degree. Technical Skills: Proficiency in scheduling software such as Epicor, SAP, Oracle, etc., and strong analytical skills for interpreting complex data. Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel is essential.Problem-Solving Abilities: The capacity to identify issues quickly and develop effective solutions under pressure.Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey information to stakeholders at all levels of the organization.Organizational Skills: Outstanding organizational and time-management capabilities, with the proficiency to handle multiple schedules and priorities simultaneously.Flexibility: Must be able to come in early and stay late as the need arises.(ADA) Minimum Qualifications or Standards Required to Perform Essential Job FunctionsPhysical Requirements: Must be physically able to operate a variety of maintenance equipment and tools. Must be physically able to operate a motor vehicle. Must be able to use body members to work, move, or carry objects or materials. Must be able to exert up to fifty pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to twenty-five pounds frequently. Physical demand requirements are at levels of those for physically active work. Must be able to lift and/or carry weights of up to fifty pounds. Must be able to stand for a prolonged period.Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable functional, structural, or compositional characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people, or things.Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information related to administrative duties. Language Ability: Requires the ability to speak with and before others with poise, voice control, and confidence using correct English and well-modulated voice.Intelligence: Requires the ability to learn and understand relatively complex principles and techniques related to administrative and clerical duties; to make independent judgments in the absence of supervision; to acquire knowledge of topics related to primary occupation.Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, explain procedures, and follow verbal and written instructions.Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; add, subtract, multiply, and divide figures; determine percentages; determine time weight.Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and/or hear: talking, expressing, or exchanging ideas using spoken words. (Hearing - perceiving nature of sounds by ear)