What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Scheduler position at Actalent?
Description:
The Production Planner/Scheduler coordinates and expedites the flow of work and materials within or between departments according to daily and weekly production schedules and is responsible for tactical production scheduling to meet customer requirements while minimizing manufacturing and distribution cost as well as the Corporate inventory investment. Duties include reviewing and distributing production, work, and shipment schedules; conferring with department supervisors to determine progress of work and completion dates; inventory levels, and solving production problems
Additional Skills & Qualifications:
1. Schedule utilizing MRP demand to execute planned work orders. Utilize released and created work orders to ensure compliance with the planned demand to support sales and inventory levels, while effectively utilizing available capacity.
2. Analyze and create operating schedules that support maximizing machine and labor efficiency and efficiently utilize material and storage space resources while meeting customer requirements.
3. Create and maintain schedules for sequencing and lead time for each operation to successfully meet shipping dates according to forecasts and orders.
4. Prepare scheduling reports as required. Expedite operations that delay schedules and modify scheduling demands to meet changes such as back orders or un-forecasted customer demand.
5. Communicate daily with internal customers as to status of all open orders/jobs and informing of exceptions impacting customer on time delivery shipments.
6. Provide management visibility over work-in-progress, material availability, and potential production issues, ensuring that personnel, equipment, tools, materials and services are available as needed.
7. Make or recommend revision to planned production schedules as necessary when schedules cannot be met, includes preparing back-up schedules.
8. Manage WIP and finished goods inventory levels within company guidance while maintaining on-time-delivery targets.
About Actalent:
Actalent connects passion with purpose. Our scalable talent solutions and services capabilities drive value and results and provide the expertise to help our customers achieve more. Every day, our experts around the globe are making an impact. We’re supporting critical initiatives in engineering and sciences that advance how companies serve the world. Actalent promotes consultant care and engagement through experiences that enable continuous development. Our people are the difference. Actalent is an operating company of Allegis Group, the global leader in talent solutions.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
Salary : $35 - $38
