Production Scheduler 3

RR Donnelley

St. Charles (IL)

On-site

USD 56,000 - 84,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

RRD in Illinois is seeking a Scheduler to coordinate work on manufacturing equipment across Prepress, Press, and Bindery/Finishing. You will review daily/weekly production schedules, load equipment, and align workloads with customer delivery dates.

You will collaborate with planners and other departments, adjust schedules for unplanned events, and generate daily reports to support staffing, materials, and customer service.

Qualifications

  • HS Diploma or equivalent with 5 years of relevant administrative/operational support in manufacturing operations or office environment.
  • Excellent knowledge of policies, procedures, regulations, and program objectives.
  • Strong communication skills across departments.

Responsibilities

  • Review daily/weekly production schedules and sequence/load equipment to run in Prepress, Press, Bindery/Finishing.
  • Optimize workflow by matching equipment capabilities to customer work specifications, even for complex jobs.
  • Ensure preceding requirements like preflight files, plating, materials are in place.
  • Coordinate with departments to ensure jobs will be able to run.
  • Review daily production output and adjust schedules accordingly.
  • Engage with Planners or management when issues arise and move work to resolve them.
  • Reschedule work to different slots/equipment in case of unplanned events like failures or missing materials.
  • Provide guidance or templates for other schedulers and plan for multiple departments or equipment groups.
  • Provide daily reports to manufacturing operations so staffing and materials align with workloads and sales/service updates.

Skills

MS Office
Communication skills
Organizational skills
Scheduling

Education

HS Diploma or equivalent with 5 years experience

Tools

EPS Platform

Job description

  • Compensation: USD 55,700 - USD 83,600 - yearly
Company Description

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.

Job Description

Schedule work to run on manufacturing equipment for one or more of the following areas: Prepress, Press, Bindery/Finishing. Review daily production output and make adjustments/updates to daily/weekly forecasted schedules. Move work around as needed while maintaining customer delivery dates. Provide daily reports/updates that are used by the production departments to run work and plan staffing, materials etc.

Responsibilities:

  • Review daily/weekly production schedules and sequence/load equipment to run primarily in one/or more of the following areas: Prepress, Press, Bindery/Finishing.
  • Optimize workflow by matching the equipment capabilities 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.
  • Review daily production output and make adjustments/updates to daily/weekly schedules.
  • May engage with Planners or management when issues arise and work needs to be moved around to resolve issues.
  • 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.
Qualifications
  • May possess additional education certification in this level.
  • Requires excellent knowledge of functional area(s) related to the job or good knowledge related to a professional field of work.
  • Able to consistently apply applicable policies, procedures, regulations, and program objectives when carrying out the duties of the job.
  • May provide oversight of work conducted by junior level staff and/or review/audit work for accuracy.
  • Must have advanced knowledge of technology to include computers and software programs such as MS Office or MAC word processing, spreadsheets or other programs specific to the job in order to complete job duties successfully.
  • Must have excellent oral and written communication skills to communicate effectively across departments when completing assignments.
  • Must have strong organizational skills with ability to manage deadlines and prioritize workload and make adjustment to meet business needs.
  • Additional job knowledge, skills, and/or abilities specific to a department may be listed on the staffing requisition.
  • HS Diploma or equivalent with 5 years of relevant administrative/operational support in manufacturing operations or office environment directly related to the duties of the job.
  • EPS Platform experience preferred.
Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

RRD's current salary range for this role is $55,700 to$83,600 / year. The salary range may be adjusted based on the applicable geographic location of the hired employee, and the range may change in the future.At RRD, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions may vary based upon, but not limited to education, skills, experience, proficiency, performance, shift and location. Depending on the role, in addition to base salary, the total compensation package may also include participation in a bonus, commission or incentive program. RRD’s benefit offerings include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, disability insurance, 401(k) with company match, life insurance and other voluntary supplemental insurance coverages, plus parental leave, adoption assistance, tuition assistance and employer/partner discounts.

  • medical coverage
  • dental coverage
  • vision coverage
  • paid time off
  • disability insurance
  • 401(k) with company match
  • life insurance
  • other voluntary supplemental insurance coverages
  • parental leave
  • adoption assistance
  • tuition assistance
  • employer/partner discounts

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

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

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