Labor Scheduler: Optimize Plant Staffing & Schedules

The Swan Food Company; Pasadena, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Job summary

CJ Schwan’s is hiring a Labor Scheduler for its Pasadena, TX frozen foods facility. The role evaluates labor needs, schedules staff, maintains Kronos data, and collaborates with HR, production, and supervisors to optimize coverage and efficiency.

Qualified candidates hold a bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 3+ years of scheduling experience, strong data entry and MS Office skills, and solid communication and math abilities. Competitive benefits and incentive eligible.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Minimum 3 years of related experience.
• Proficient with data entry in database tools, UKG knowledge preferred. Proficient in MS Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates and communicates with all departments to ensure that labor needs for the plant are utilized effectively and efficiently.
• Troubleshoots exceptions that occur during the labor scheduling process. Stays informed of all variables affecting labor schedule, including but not limited to, call-ins, weather related issues, and other special case scenarios.
• Organizes weekly meetings with supervisors on labor schedules, communicates any changes in the schedule to the manager as well as supervisors, and identifies training needs to meet the best possible scheduling results.
• Maintains employee profile (primary jobs, job transfer sets, availability patterns, shifts) and skill matrix data in Kronos system with the help of regular communication with supervisors.
• Analyzes and reports exceptions within scheduling to Labor Scheduling Manager, assign resources to meet business guiding principles.
• Maintains annual vacation tracker and call-ins for employees.
• Communicates with supervisors and the Labor Manager on approval and denial of vacations.
• Monitors trends on call-ins and regularly communicates with HR team.
• Communicates with Production Scheduler to bring common ground on Production and Labor planning. This includes, but not limited to, adjusting labor schedule if the production schedule changes.
• Communicates with production employees for coverage of shifts based on labor needs.
• Manages part-time workforce, identifies availability of part-time employees and fits them into weekly schedule to obtain optimum results.
• Reports weekly labor scheduling metrics to Labor Scheduling Manager, analyzes trends in the data, recommends changes if necessary.

Skills

Data entry

Communication skills

Math skills

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kronos

UKG

MS Office

Job description

CJ Schwan’s is hiring a Labor Scheduler for its Pasadena, TX frozen foods facility. The role evaluates labor needs, schedules staff, maintains Kronos data, and collaborates with HR, production, and supervisors to optimize coverage and efficiency.

Qualified candidates hold a bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 3+ years of scheduling experience, strong data entry and MS Office skills, and solid communication and math abilities. Competitive benefits and incentive eligible.