Production Scheduler - Optimize Schedules & Delivery

Senneca Holdings; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Company-paid life insurance

Disability insurance

FSA/HSA

Paid time off (PTO)

Parental leave

9 paid holidays

401(k) with company match

Tuition assistance

Career development

Job summary

Senneca Holdings seeks an experienced Production Scheduler for our Salt Lake City, UT facility. The role translates the Master Production Schedule into detailed daily and weekly production plans, coordinating work orders, material readiness, and capacity to support on-time delivery.

The position requires strong ERP/MRP skills, Excel expertise, and the ability to collaborate across manufacturing, procurement, logistics, engineering, quality, and sales to optimize workflow and throughput.

Qualifications

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, or related field preferred.
• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on production scheduling, production planning, manufacturing coordination, or related manufacturing operations experience.
• Proven experience utilizing ERP/MRP systems to support production scheduling, inventory control, and operational planning.
• Strong Excel skills including PivotTables, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, filtering, sorting, conditional formatting, and analysis of large production schedules or work-order datasets.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritize competing demands, manage multiple schedules, and perform effectively in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, Six Sigma, or related operational excellence methodologies preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to identify process inefficiencies and implement solutions that improve productivity, quality, schedule adherence, and operational performance.

Responsibilities

• Translate the Master Production Schedule into detailed daily and weekly manufacturing schedules.
• Develop and maintain production schedules, ensuring alignment with customer orders, material availability, production capacity, and established priorities.
• Review, release, sequence, and maintain work orders in accordance with priorities established by the Master Scheduler.
• Ensure work orders contain accurate routing, quantities, dates, priorities, and scheduling information prior to production execution.
• Verify material readiness before releasing or committing production work and proactively identify shortages that could impact scheduled production.
• Monitor daily production execution against the published schedule and identify jobs at risk of missing planned start, completion, or shipment dates.
• Monitor and adjust schedules to address delays, material shortages, labor constraints, engineering issues, quality holds, bottlenecks, or capacity limitations.
• Escalate material shortages, labor constraints, capacity limitations, engineering issues, quality concerns, and other barriers that threaten schedule attainment.
• Maintain schedule integrity by ensuring schedule changes are controlled, documented, communicated, and aligned with priorities established by the Master Scheduler.
• Maintain regular presence on the production floor to validate work order status, identify constraints, confirm priorities, and ensure the schedule accurately reflects actual production conditions.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, procurement, logistics, engineering, quality, shipping, customer service, and sales teams to optimize workflow and production efficiency.
• Track production progress and communicate schedule updates, delays, and recovery plans to stakeholders.
• Utilize ERP/MRP systems to schedule work orders, maintain scheduling data, manage inventory-related planning activities, and coordinate job sequencing.
• Analyze production requirements, lead times, material availability, and capacity constraints to support efficient execution of the production plan.
• Ensure on-time product delivery by proactively identifying and resolving scheduling conflicts and production bottlenecks.
• Maintain accurate production planning reports, work order documentation, scheduling records, and system data.
• Provide accurate lead times, schedule status updates, and production commitments to internal stakeholders.
• Track, monitor, and report scheduling performance metrics including schedule attainment, schedule adherence, on-time completion, on-time delivery, past-due work orders, planned versus actual completion, work order aging, material readiness, schedule changes, capacity utilization, and production backlog.
• Assist in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance scheduling accuracy, reduce waste, improve throughput, and increase operational efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with applicable quality standards, company policies, and safety regulations.

Skills

Excel PivotTables

XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Prioritization

Communication skills

Education

Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, or related field

Tools

ERP/MRP systems

Job description

Senneca Holdings seeks an experienced Production Scheduler for our Salt Lake City, UT facility. The role translates the Master Production Schedule into detailed daily and weekly production plans, coordinating work orders, material readiness, and capacity to support on-time delivery.

The position requires strong ERP/MRP skills, Excel expertise, and the ability to collaborate across manufacturing, procurement, logistics, engineering, quality, and sales to optimize workflow and throughput.