Production Scheduler

RRD is a leading global provider of marketing, packaging, print, and supply chain solutions that elevate engagement across the complete customer journey. The company offers the industry's most trusted portfolio of creative execution and world-wide business process consulting, with services designed to lower environmental impact. With 22,000 clients, including 93% of the Fortune 100, and 32,000 employees across 28 countries, RRD brings the expertise, execution, and scale designed to transform customer touchpoints into meaningful moments of impact.

The Production Scheduler manages production demand for a kitting facility, monitoring capacity versus forecast and identifying variances which may impact the Company's ability to meet customer expectations, create a lack of work scenario, and all other potential impacts. They are responsible for ensuring work is scheduled on lines and equipment as efficiently as possible, working closely with the Customer Service, Operations, and Purchasing departments to identify issues and variances. The scheduler closely monitors production output and makes adjustments/updates to daily/weekly forecasted schedules; moving work around as needed while maintaining customer delivery dates.

• Review daily/weekly production schedules and sequence/load lines and equipment.
• Review daily production output and make adjustments/updates to daily/weekly schedules.
• Reviews and replies to the monthly forecast commitments for each customer.
• Runs MRP on the agreed upon frequency and works with Buyers and Customer Service to understand any supply issues.
• Prepare and distribute daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly reports that are used by the site teams to forecast, schedule work, staffing, and materials planning.
• Optimize workflow by matching the equipment and linecapabilities closely to the specification of the customer work.
• Typically plan for equipment and jobs that are more complex in nature.
• Ensure that preceding requirements needed to begin running a job such as the preflight of the customer files, plating, raw materials, components are in place.
• Coordinate with the appropriate departments to ensure jobs will be able to run.
• May engage with leaders from cross-functional teams when issues arise and work needs to be moved around.
• Re-schedule work to different slots/equipment in the event of unplanned situations such as equipment failures, missing components or raw materials etc.
• May provide guidance or templates for other Schedulers to use/reference. May plan for multiple departments or equipment groups.
• Provide daily reports/updates to manufacturing operations so materials and staffing are coordinated with the forecasted workloads and that sales/customer service are updated on customer projects.
• Verify that materials, staffing, and logistics are in place in time for scheduled production runs.
• Coordinate with vendors and/or internal resources producing components to ensure that delivery will meet the scheduled run time for the customer project.
• May perform tasks related to long term planning and building of facility work plans.
• Performs other related duties and participates in special projects as assigned.
• All job responsibilities are to be performed in accordance with the company's Mission/Values Statement and its Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.

The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time; and/or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.

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.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/SKILLS

• High School Diploma or equivalency required.
• 5+ years of relevant administrative/operational support in manufacturing operations or office environment directly related to the duties of the job
• Experience in Microsoft Excel, and Word.
• JD Edwards experience a plus.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Flexibility and the ability to manage change.
• Ability to communicate and work well with others in the organization effectively and professionally.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize workload.
• Prefer prior experience in a production atmosphere.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers and account teams.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Must have strong organizational skills with ability to manage deadlines and prioritize workload and make adjustment to meet business needs.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

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.

• Majority of the time is spent in the office working with system tools for monitoring demand and capacity.
• Limited time walking to and from meetings, attending meetings, climbing stairs, and standing while reviewing items on the floor

Disclosure Statement:

Thenational pay range for this role is $52,900 to $79,400 annually. The payrange may beslightly lower or higher based on the geographic location of the hired employee. The actual pay offered may vary based upon, but not limited to: education, skills, experience, proficiency, performance, shift and location. In addition to base salary, depending on the role, the total compensation package may also include participation in a bonus, commission or incentive program. RRD offers benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, disability insurance, 401(k) with match, life insurance and other voluntary supplemental insurance coverages, plus tuition assistance,parental leave, adoption assistance, and employer/partner discounts.

All employment offers are contingent upon the successful completion of both a pre-employment background and drug screen.

RRD is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans