Plant Scheduler Jobs

Victoria, TX
Permanent, Direct, Onsite
$75,000
Responsibilities
The Plant Scheduler will manage inventory levels of finished goods and to support availability for high shipping levels. Create and maintain production schedule to achieve high productivity and meet customer demands.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Safety Management

• Performs duties in a safe manner; Acts as a role model for Safety. Participates in and/or leads teams focused on safety
• Safety committee member and follow all Company safety policies.
• Ensures the safety of all shift employees by having supervisors and team leads check the production floor for safety/housekeeping hazards throughout the shift and addressing issues
• Participates and promotes the Safety Behavior Program with all production employees; reviews issues with the EHS Manager and Production management team to ensure that all issues brought up by employees are addressed in a timely

Planning and Scheduling Management

• Coordinates and requests sufficient materials for Production needs from Warehouse using the Pull Report and other analytical
• Work with Managers to develop potential solutions to improve production
• Review and maintain item master data.
• Monitor workflow and schedules to ensure on-time
• Work close with all shifts to ensure customer needs are consistently met.
• Coordinate with production, purchasing and finance teams to develop and maintain scheduling
• Analyze and address production issues in a timely manner including manpower and material shortages and work with relevant departments to
• Provide capacity updates for new business and increased
• Authorize to enter stock transfers of repro,and finished goods to maintain inventory in other facilities
• Issue priority list to guide the production
• Developed effective scheduling process and implement process
• Monitor pricing with vendors to insure best value to meet requirements.
• Generate various inventory related reports to Managers for critical decision making purposes (i.e. inventory projections, tableau, DOH).
• Participates in and leads employee driven teams to address scrap, quality, safety, or other production related issues; actively participates in cost savings activities.
• Direct plant transfers through warehouse
• Participate in regular phone and web based conference calls.
• Coordinate with Production Team to develop and execute production
• Use software (JDE, Preactor, Logility, and AWOG) to generate reports and manage
• Alert customer service of any delays in meeting the current
• Organize converting film area for inventory and efficient use of space.
• Review production specifications in order to identify and report plant capacity
• Review various reports daily adding or modifying work orders as
• Schedule the production process and production departments by Material, Employee and Equipment availability to minimize company costs.
• Provide daily production status updates for Production
• Follow and support all Company safety, GMP,QMS, and HACCP policies. Authorized approver for all pertaining ISO documents. Backup Approver for Purchasing requisitions

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations 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 talk, hear, sit, walk, stand, and use hands and fingers. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
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, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education: Knowledge normally acquired through completion of a 4 year technical degree in manufacturing engineering, mechanical engineering or other related technical field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience: In addition to the educational requirements 5 or more year’s progressively responsible manufacturing management experience required. 3-5 years blown film extrusion/conversion experience and ISO 9000 experience preferred.