Senior Production Scheduler

White Cap; Fort Myers (FL); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

White Cap is seeking a Production Scheduler to plan and establish production schedules across diverse manufacturing departments. The role involves allocating work to centers, updating schedules with revisions, and releasing orders to departments to ensure on-time production.

Under limited supervision, you will monitor inventories and project progress, guiding junior staff and contributing to efficient operations across the facility.

Qualifications

• Technical certification or associate degree may be required in some areas.
• Generally, 5-7 years of experience in a related area of responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Allocates to proper work center.
• Makes necessary modifications to schedules, issuing orders to the appropriate department due to revisions.
• Directs the work activities of employees in the production control function as needed.
• Releases orders to individual departments.
• Monitors material inventories, tracks progress of production, and reviews factors that affect schedules.

Skills

Multitasking

Carrier relations

Budget management

Capacity planning

Problem solving

Strategic planning

Education

Associate degree

Technical certification

Job description

A position at White Cap isn’t your ordinary job. You’ll work in an exciting and diverse environment, meet interesting people, and have a variety of career opportunities.

The White Cap family is committed to Building Trust on Every Job. We do this by being deeply knowledgeable, fully capable, and always dependable, and our associates are the driving force behind this commitment.

Responsible for planning and establishing production schedules for a wide variety of manufacturing departments, involving diversified parts, assemblies, or tooling to conform to requirements of the master production schedule.

Major Tasks, Responsibilities and Key Accountabilities

• Allocates to proper work center.

• Makes necessary modifications to schedules, issuing orders to the appropriate department due to revisions.

• Directs the work activities of employees in the production control function as needed

• Releases orders to individual departments.

• Monitors material inventories, tracks progress of production, and reviews factors that affect schedules.

Nature and Scope

• May modify processes to resolve situations.

• Under limited supervision, relies on experience and exercises independent judgment to determine the best approach to achieve desired outcomes. Course of action is often determined by interpreting procedures and policies. Work typically involves periodic review of output by a supervisor or direct customers of the process.

• Is sought out and/or assigned to provide general guidance/direction, training, and technical assistance to junior level support personnel. Contributes to employees’ professional development but does not have hiring/firing authority.

Work Environment

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

• Most of the time is spent sitting in the same position or standing/walking and/or there is some requirement to lift or handle material or equipment of moderate weight (8-20 pounds).

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 5% of the time.

Education and Experience

• Technical certification or associate degree may be required in some areas. Generally, 5-7 years of experience in a related area of responsibility.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to multi-task.
• Develop relations with common carrier third party companies.
• Manage outbound shipment budgets.
• Ability to learn facility capacities based on different manufacturing equipment and personnel/shifts.
• Problem solver and strategic planning when large projects are taken that require multiple facilities to successfully execute.

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