Materials Production Scheduler

Flex-N-Gate Effingham, Effingham, Illinois, United States of America

Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM

Flex-N-Gate is a leading manufacturer and supplier of components for the automotive industry, recently ranked 10th of the 150 Top North American Suppliers in “Automotive News.” A growing and vital company, Flex-N-Gate provides a great opportunity for hard-working and skilled individuals.

The Production Scheduler will be responsible for ensuring best practice(s) in demand planning, inventory planning, production planning and supply planning. He/she will plan an inventory reduction strategies. This position will work closely with the Manufacturing and Materials teams. Production Scheduler shall be responsible for coordinating the activities of production and operation workers, precision workers, machine setters and operators, assemblers, fabricators, and plant and system operators.

The Production Scheduler shall ensure that production schedules are created and completed on time, and within budget, in order to meet Customer Quality and Delivery requirements

• Customer Focus
• Communication
• Energy & Stress
• Team Work
• Problem Solving
• Accountability and Dependability
• Ethics and Integrity

• CHRF.
  00003 New Employee Orientation
• CMS – CR1, CR2, CR3, CR4, CR5, ICBOM, ICICIC, ICIM, ICLM, OEISAC, PCCPPR, PCCRP, PCCPWO, PCMRPL, PCPMTH, PCPPLN, PCSCRE
• Purchasing
• PLM software
• Customer Releasing & Scheduling
• Supplier Releasing & Scheduling
• Manufacturing
• APQP & Design
• Non-Conforming Material
• Master Procedure Flow
• Quality Management Systems - CQAM.
  00001 Quality Management Systems Manual
• IATF/ISO Related Training

• Prepare daily production schedules
• Issue all work orders per production schedule
• Participate with Material Requirement Planning improvements/implementation team
• Assist with Cycle counting/Bar Coding
• Ensure integrity of Data Entry
• Train staff to function in their absence
• Participate with Inventories.
• Estimate materials and labour required for production
• Co-ordinate activities with warehouse and production units
• Co-ordinate traffic flow of supplies
• Monitor production progress
• Compile worksheets and specifications of orders
• Prepare and maintain progress and other reports
• Create, maintain, and ensure execution of the Production Schedule
• Review long-term forecasts to identify and mitigate possible capacity/material issues and recommend appropriate action.
• Confer with management or subordinates to resolve worker problems, complaints and grievances
• Enforce safety and sanitation regulations
• Increase worker efficiency and production rates
• Ensure that work orders are completed in a timely fashion, within budget
• Work with other supervisors to coordinate operations and activities within and between departments
• Demonstrate equipment operations and work and safety procedures to new employees, or assign employees to experienced workers for training
• Review demand and supply to understand bottleneck and propose alternative capacity or areas needing capacity improvement to meet demand.
• Participate in business planning meetings to plan out activities in future time periods.
• Constantly look for improvements and help implement solutions.
  Recommend components to stock to support a pull system for products and to reduce lead-times.
• Perform ongoing analysis of weekly, monthly and future capacity to optimize product level loading and achieve manufacturing continuity during low and high volume months.
• Manage cycle count activities to ensure proper counts are conducted and the inventory is accurate.
• Read and analyze charts, work orders, production schedules and other records / reports to determine production requirements and to evaluate current production estimates and outputs
• The incumbent is responsible for the awareness, understanding, specific responsibilities and management of the Environmental Management System (EMS) as stated in EMS policy CEVPL.
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• The incumbent is responsible for the awareness, understanding, specific responsibilities and management of the Quality Management System (QMS) as stated in
• CQAM.
  00001 – Corporate Quality Manual.

• Manual dexterity required…