Production Scheduler - Lotis - Bay

Monday - Friday from 8am - 5pm

The Production Scheduler is responsible for developing, maintaining, and communicating production schedules to ensure customer requirements are met while maximizing equipment utilization and efficiently coordinating labor, materials, tooling, and production capacity.

This position works closely with Production, Materials, Purchasing, Shipping, Engineering, Quality, Tooling, and Customer Service to establish priorities, minimize unnecessary mold and tooling changeovers, identify potential scheduling conflicts, and maintain an efficient flow of production.

The Production Scheduler must respond quickly to changing customer demands, equipment downtime, material availability, staffing constraints, tooling issues, and other production challenges while minimizing disruption to operations and customer delivery commitments.

• Develop and maintain daily, weekly, and forward‑looking production schedules based on customer orders, due dates, production capacity, material availability, tooling availability, and staffing requirements.
• Maintain a 24–72 hour forward‑looking production schedule that gives Production and supporting departments visibility into upcoming jobs, priorities, mold changes, material requirements, and staffing needs.
• Schedule and prioritize production jobs across available machines and production departments.
• Build schedules that maximize machine utilization and minimize unnecessary mold, tooling, material, and color changeovers.
• Coordinate mold and tooling requirements with Production, Process Technicians, Tooling, and Engineering to ensure scheduled jobs can be completed as planned.
• Review upcoming production requirements and proactively identify potential issues involving molds, tooling, materials, machine capacity, labor, or other resources before they affect the schedule.
• Participate in daily production and manpower meetings to review production status, upcoming requirements, staffing needs, priorities, and potential scheduling constraints.
• Communicate the 24–72 hour production outlook during daily meetings and identify issues requiring action or management support.
• Review open orders and production requirements to confirm customer delivery dates can be achieved.
• Coordinate production schedules with plant leadership, supervisors, process technicians, material handlers, Shipping, and other departments.
• Verify that required raw materials, components, packaging, tooling, molds, and other resources are available before jobs are scheduled.
• Monitor production progress throughout the day and adjust schedules as necessary due to machine downtime, tooling issues, quality concerns, labor shortages, material delays, customer changes, or other production issues.
• Communicate schedule changes and production priorities clearly and promptly to affected departments.
• Identify capacity constraints, scheduling conflicts, material shortages, tooling concerns, and late orders; elevate concerns before they affect customer commitments.
• Work closely with Purchasing and Materials personnel to address shortages that may impact production.
• Coordinate with Shipping to ensure completed products are available to meet customer delivery requirements.
• Work with Engineering, Tooling, and Quality when new products, production trials, mold changes, repairs, or quality issues affect the production schedule.
• Enter, maintain, and review production and scheduling information in Plex to ensure information is accurate and current.
• Monitor job completion and ensure production status and schedule changes are accurately reflected in Plex.
• Review production performance and identify opportunities to improve machine utilization, reduce downtime and unnecessary…