Supply Chain Production Scheduler

Ircagroup; Affton (MO); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k) matching

Paid vacation

Holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Irca Group is seeking a Production Scheduler to coordinate supply chain tasks, monitor inventory, and plan production across multiple locations. The role focuses on ensuring timely delivery, optimizing material flow, and managing orders for co-manufacturing and offsite warehouses.

The ideal candidate has a bachelor’s degree or equivalent, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in Excel and the Microsoft Office suite. APICS certification is preferred but not required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• APICS certification preferred but not required.
• Strong analytical and Excel skills required.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate production materials planning across multiple locations.
• Manage orders for co-manufacture and multiple warehouses.
• Coordinate material transfers between facilities and warehouses.
• Review material requirements for daily transfers.
• Create and manage purchase orders for offsite locations.
• Oversee freight management across warehouses with lead times and allergen considerations.
• Identify safety stock and new product introduction needs.
• Address aged, slow-moving, or obsolete inventory.
• Optimize production planning considering allergens, sanitization, and changeovers.
• Communicate updates to Customer Care and OCR daily or more often.
• Lead weekly scheduling reviews with production, maintenance, and quality teams.
• Provide analysis to meet or exceed plant service and KPI targets.
• Act as a backup for key supply chain roles and participate in daily meetings.
• Work with ERP and manufacturing software to manage material flow.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other Office apps.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; APICS certification preferred.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Microsoft Office Suite

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

APICS Certification preferred

Job description

The Irca Group is an International Leader in high quality finished and semi-finished ingredients for the bakery, pastry, and ice cream markets. With a solid history of over 100 years in the industry, the Group has its headquarters in Italy (Gallarate) and a strong global footprint with 23 production sites and over 2000 employees in Europe, the United States and Vietnam.

Our core product categories include chocolate, compounds, chocolate decorations, sprinkles, creams, pastry mixes, gelato ingredients, nuts and candied fruit. The most recent acquisition of Kerry Sweet complements our existing categories with the addition of sweet particulates, chocolate confections, inclusions, variegates and frozen fruit purees.

Through its 8 key brands (IRCA, Dobla, in2food, Via Degli Orsini, JoyGelato, RaviFruit, Cesarin and Anastasi) the IRCA Group offers an unparalleled "one-stop shop" approach for delivering quality solutions to all ingredients needs, through a broad range of innovative products. We offer every day and seasonal solutions to 3 macro channels: Gourmet, Food Manufacturing and Consumer Product (Retail). “Extraordinary made simple”

About the Role

The Production Scheduler is responsible for coordinating supply chain activities, monitoring inventory across the warehouse network, ensuring timely delivery of goods, and production planning and processing of co-manufacturing/production lines.

• Planning of production materials across multiple locations/co-manufactures.
• Order processing for co-manufacture and multiple warehouse locations.
• Coordination of materials between the warehouses/production facilities.
• Materials requirement planning review for daily transfers.
• PO management and creation for offsite warehouse locations.
• Freight management across multiple warehouses, considering delivery requirements, lead times, and allergen requirements.
• Identify requirements for order fulfilment, safety stock requirements and new product introductions
• Ensure aged, slow moving, and obsolete inventory action items are addressed timely.
• Optimize production planning, with consideration of Allergens, Sanitization, and Changeover impacts.
• Communicate with Customer Care/update the OCR daily or more often as changes and updates occur.
• Coordinate and manage cycle count program within each warehouse.
• Lead weekly scheduling review with production, maintenance, and quality groups.
• Provide analysis and follow-up to ensure all plant Service, Inventory, and other KPI’s are met or exceeded.
• Become a necessary back up for key roles within the supply chain.
• Attends and participates in daily meetings
• Other projects and responsibilities may be added at the company’s discretion.
• In-depth knowledge of computerized integrated information systems (manufacturing, materials management, production planning, procurement, and distribution) and a superior understanding of manufacturing material flow in a plant.
• Strong analytical skills
• High level of proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
• (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access)
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience. APICS Certification is preferred though not required.

Why Join Us:

Irca Group offers career growth opportunities as well as competitive compensation and benefits: Medical, Dental, & Vision, 401(k) matching, Paid Vacation, and Holidays, Employee Education Tuition Reimbursement Program.