Senior Production Scheduler – Optimize Throughput

Proform; Falls Township (PA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Proform in Falls Creek, PA is seeking a Production Scheduler to develop, maintain, and optimize the master production schedule in a powder metal manufacturing setting. You will coordinate with Sales, Customer Service, Purchasing, Tooling, Maintenance, and Production to balance demand, capacity, and materials, while targeting on-time delivery and inventory goals.

The role requires strong analytical ability, organizational skills, and effective communication across teams, with availability for

Qualifications

• 3+ years production scheduling experience in manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of capacity planning and bottleneck management.
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems.
• Ability to analyze data and balance competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills across production and commercial teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain daily and weekly production schedules for compaction presses, sintering furnaces, and secondary operations.
• Align schedules with customer demand forecasts and firm orders.
• Monitor WIP flow through compacting, sintering, sizing, machining, heat treat, and finishing processes.
• Optimize sequencing to reduce die changes, alloy changeovers, and furnace disruptions.
• Identify capacity constraints and recommend corrective actions.
• Coordinate raw material and powder availability with Purchasing.
• Track schedule adherence and report KPIs (OTD, schedule attainment, etc).
• Adjust schedules in response to machine downtime, quality issues, or priority changes.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on flow, lead time reduction, and inventory control.
• Attends and participates in various meetings to discuss project progress, and plant/production/customer related issues
• Participate and prepare for various events; including cycle count programs and physical inventory processes and assist customer service to discuss delivery issues directly with customers.
• Work with leadership team on budgeting and quarterly forecasts.
• Work closely with Quality and Engineering on engineering changes.
• Work closely with Tool Designer/Tool & Die shop to ensure tooling is available to meet the production schedule.
• Performs other duties as assigned by immediate supervisor and upper management.
• Minimal travel required.

Job description

Proform in Falls Creek, PA is seeking a Production Scheduler to develop, maintain, and optimize the master production schedule in a powder metal manufacturing setting. You will coordinate with Sales, Customer Service, Purchasing, Tooling, Maintenance, and Production to balance demand, capacity, and materials, while targeting on-time delivery and inventory goals.

The role requires strong analytical ability, organizational skills, and effective communication across teams, with availability for