Production Scheduler

Falkville, AL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Production Scheduler is responsible for creating maintaining and optimizing the short and mediumterm production schedule for the Falkville plant ensuring ontime delivery efficient use of labor and equipment and alignment with customer requirements and inventory targets.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Develop and maintain daily and weekly production schedules for compression molding prep and fabrication work centers aligned with customer due dates and capacity constraints.
Translate customer orders and forecasts into sequenced work orders in the ERP system (JobBOSS or similar) balancing machine and labor capacity while minimizing changeovers and setup waste.
Coordinate closely with Production Purchasing and Shipping to ensure material availability (rubber metal ceramics steel) and realistic start/finish dates for each job.
Monitor schedule adherence daily identify risks to ontime delivery and proactively adjust the schedule in response to equipment downtime quality issues or material delays.
Review open sales orders and WIP status prioritize jobs based on customer need revenue impact and bottleneck utilization and communicate clear priorities to supervisors and cell leaders.
Use ERP/MRP and Excelbased tools to run capacity and load reports analyze constraints and recommend actions to improve throughput and reduce lead time.
Provide daily and weekly schedule updates to operations leadership including risk recovery plans and projected ship dates for key customers.
Track and help improve schedule accuracy ontime delivery performance WIP levels and inventory of key materials and finished goods.
Support continuous improvement activities focused on reducing changeover time improving flow through bottleneck processes (e.g. blast and paint molding) and stabilizing lead times.
Maintain accurate scheduling master data (routings run rates minimum lot sizes lead times) in the ERP system in partnership with engineering and operations.

Required Qualifications

3 years of experience in production scheduling planning or related role in a manufacturing environment; experience with maketoorder/job shop preferred.
Proficiency with ERP/MRP systems (experience with JobBOSS or similar jobshop system is a plus) and strong Microsoft Excel skills (sorting filtering lookups basic analysis).
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities work in a fastpaced environment and adjust schedules quickly while maintaining composure and accuracy.
Solid understanding of manufacturing processes capacity and basic production metrics (OEE throughput WIP lead time ontime delivery).
Strong communication skills with the ability to work closely with supervisors operators customer service and purchasing to align the plan and execution.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in rubber elastomer or metal fabrication manufacturing environments.
Background in jobshop or highmix lowvolume scheduling with significant changeovers and shared resources.
Exposure to Lean/continuous improvement constraint management or basic scheduling optimization concepts.

Core Competencies

Ownership mindset with a bias for action problem solving and clear communication.
High attention to detail and data accuracy.
Analytical thinking and comfort working with numbers reports and system data to make scheduling decisions.
Record and report working hours and material usage.
Maintain clean work areas tool repair and equipment inventory.
Inspect paint jobs and materials adjusting colors and fixing defects

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work:

This is a full-time position. Must be available for overtime and work weekends when necessary.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required by the employee.

Selected candidate will be subject to a background check and drug screen. All offers will be contingent on satisfactory screening results.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Develop and maintain daily and weekly production schedules for compression molding prep and fabrication work centers aligned with customer due dates and capacity constraints.
Translate customer orders and forecasts into sequenced work orders in the ERP system (JobBOSS or similar) balancing machine and labor capacity while minimizing changeovers and setup waste.
Coordinate closely with Production Purchasing and Shipping to ensure material availability (rubber metal ceramics steel) and realistic start/finish dates for each job.
Monitor schedule adherence daily identify risks to ontime delivery and proactively adjust the schedule in response to equipment downtime quality issues or material delays.
Review open sales orders and WIP status prioritize jobs based on customer need revenue impact and bottleneck utilization and communicate clear priorities to supervisors and cell leaders.
Use ERP/MRP and Excelbased tools to run capacity and load reports analyze constraints and recommend actions to improve throughput and reduce lead time.
Provide daily and weekly schedule updates to operations leadership including risk recovery plans and projected ship dates for key customers.
Track and help improve schedule accuracy ontime delivery performance WIP levels and inventory of key materials and finished goods.
Support continuous improvement activities focused on reducing changeover time improving flow through bottleneck processes (e.g. blast and paint molding) and stabilizing lead times.
Maintain accurate scheduling master data (routings run rates minimum lot sizes lead times) in the ERP system in partnership with engineering and operations.

Required Qualifications

3 years of experience in production scheduling planning or related role in a manufacturing environment; experience with maketoorder/job shop preferred.
Proficiency with ERP/MRP systems (experience with JobBOSS or similar jobshop system is a plus) and strong Microsoft Excel skills (sorting filtering lookups basic analysis).
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities work in a fastpaced environment and adjust schedules quickly while maintaining composure and accuracy.
Solid understanding of manufacturing processes capacity and basic production metrics (OEE throughput WIP lead time ontime delivery).
Strong communication skills with the ability to work closely with supervisors operators customer service and purchasing to align the plan and execution.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in rubber elastomer or metal fabrication manufacturing environments.
Background in jobshop or highmix lowvolume scheduling with significant changeovers and shared resources.
Exposure to Lean/continuous improvement constraint management or basic scheduling optimization concepts.

Core Competencies

Ownership mindset with a bias for action problem solving and clear communication.
High attention to detail and data accuracy.
Analytical thinking and comfort working with numbers reports and system data to make scheduling decisions.
Record and report working hours and material usage.
Maintain clean work areas tool repair and equipment inventory.
Inspect paint jobs and materials adjusting colors and fixing defects

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work:

This is a full-time position. Must be available for overtime and work weekends when necessary.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required by the employee.

Selected candidate will be subject to a background check and drug screen. All offers will be contingent on satisfactory screening results.

Key Skills

Lean Manufacturing
Kanban
Inventory Control
Purchasing
FDA Regulations
SAP
Supply Chain Experience
ISO 13485
Production Planning
ERP Systems
Manufacturing
MRP

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Valley Rubber

Valley Rubber manufactures products based on your particular needs and your specifications giving you a truly custom manufactured product. We formulate premium grade rubber compounds to fit the function but we also have the technology to incorporate: steel, polyethylene, ceramic, alum ... View more

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