Job Summary:

The Production Scheduler will create and maintain production schedule daily by working with the Production Planner and Operations Manager to ensure everything is ready for production.

Main Tasks and Responsibilities

Production Scheduling:

• Create and maintain production schedule daily.
• Work with Production Planner and Operations Manager to ensure everything is ready for production, seek to reduce setups, priority flag items and optimize schedule.
• Calculate inventory requirements for WIP on a daily basis.
• Create work charts for the work centers.

Customer Service and Support:

• Interaction with Sales companies, including service and configured teams.(orders, general lead time requests, manual customer order entry), in a timely manner.
• Respond to inquiries from manufacturing team in a timely manner.
• Shop Order rescheduling.
• Confirm Customer orders to Sales Teams.
• Ensure that 1st confirmed ship dates are kept.

Shipment and Logistics:

• Reserve Customer orders to create Shipments for Shipping Department.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
Your Experience & Education

• Minimum 2 years’ experience as a production scheduler.
• Associates Degree, Post-Secondary Education, APICS (CPIM) or equivalent experience in production scheduling.
• Knowledge of production processes and quality control.
• Excellent math and analytical skills.
• Deadline driven.
• Organizational and time-management skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work well with all levels of employees
• Strong excel skills would be considered an asset.
• Technical skills using material requirements planning and scheduling software.
• SAP or IFS scheduling experience would be considered an asset.

Your Skills & Traits:

• Good business acumen and drive
• Initiative and enthusiasm
• Social, flexible and ability to motivate other people. 
• Good planning and organizational skills
• Control cost and think in terms profitability and added value.
• Deliver quality and personal efficiency.
• Express opinions, information and key points of an argument clearly. 
• Establish good relations with customers and staff.
• Show social responsibility and care about the environment.
• Good interpersonal skills to build effective working relationships with manufacturing team.