Production Planner/Scheduler

The Production Planner/Scheduler will plan and schedule production for a large and complex pet food palatant production plant. Experience with ERP/MRP is required along with high attention to details and focus on customer service. This is a high visibility role and frequent interaction with Sales, Production, Procurement, Warehousing and Senior Management.

Responsibilities:

• Work with Manager to plan and coordinate production schedules.
• Review production specifications and identify and report plant capacity constraints.
• Resolve manpower and material shortage problems in a timely manner.
• Provide daily production status reports for Manager.
• Monitor workflow and schedules to ensure on-time delivery.
• Coordinate with Procurement and Manufacturing to ensure that materials and equipment are prearranged for production.
• Coordinate with Manager to develop and execute production plan.
• Work with Managers to develop potential solutions to improve production performance.
• Develop effective scheduling process to achieve production objectives.
• Analyze and raise production schedule issues in a timely fashion.
• Coordinate with production, purchasing and finance teams to develop and maintain scheduling parameters.
• Coordinate with Purchasing to ensure adequate materials to avoid any shortages.
• Generate reports to Managers for critical decision making purpose