Scheduler - Primary Mills

As a Fortune 500 company, Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) is an ideas and solutions company. Our corrugated packaging business seeks to be the leader in helping our customers - large and small - package, transport and display products of all kinds. Our white paper business delivers Paper With Purpose by providing the highest level of customer service and operational excellence.

We have approximately 15,000 team members in more than 100 locations in the United States that strive to meet the local needs of our customers. Our mission is to serve the needs of our customers, today and tomorrow, with products and services that exceed expectations for performance and environmental responsibility.

People
• Customers
• Trust

The Scheduler position is responsible for planning the container board production at PCA paper mills. They will work with customer service, transportation, and on-site employees to get container board to all of PCA's customers while maintaining a focus on operational cost control - grade mix, trim efficiency, and transportation modes. The Mill Scheduling group plans the production for all 14 PCA container board machines.

As a group, we are responsible for 5.0 billion tons or 290 billion square feet.

• Schedule production to the machines with orders booked, relying on input from the mill and container board sales to sequence correctly to maintain inventory levels at the box plants.
• Optimize the paper machine's width by combining orders to run across the reel (trimming).
• Select the mode of transportation that is most cost effective but can still meet the customer's timing, to help manage inventory levels.
• Once the reel is trimmed and the mode is selected, optimize the loaded weights to minimize the transportation costs to PCA.
• Know and follow policies and procedures of the company, share information that would benefit other members of the team and find ways to improve the delivery of service to our customers. Strive to continually strengthen PCA's business philosophy of meeting needs and exceeding expectations for customers specifically supporting PCA's Commitment to Service which involves doing what's right for our customers, focusing on strategies that add value and support growth, and keeping the promises that we make.

Decision making is a core function of the mill scheduler role. Daily decisions include what orders to pair together, how to ship an order and the weight of each load, etc. Other decisions include prioritizing which customers must run first and when to insert into production schedules which may require input from senior team members. All decisions have a financial impact and multiple tradeoffs, with a wide range of outcomes.

This scheduler must be able to make decisions quickly, confidently, and know when to involve other parties. Significant training and guidance will be provided on why each decision was made vs the other possible outcomes.

Developing and maintaining good relationships with internal and external stakeholders is important to succeed in this role. Internal stakeholders in Container board Sales (representing the customer) provide the necessary feedback to prioritize orders, delivery dates, etc. External stakeholders in Transportation and Paper Mills are important to determine shipping and production constraints.

• Bachelor's degree required
• Previous work experience (1 year) preferred.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to make complex decisions based on all available inputs (at the time)
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Customer focused
• Experience using Microsoft Office applications including Excel, Word, and Outlook
• Work additional hours until the mill's schedule is covered (can be in excess of 40 hours/week) and available outside of standard business hours when necessary.
• Limited travel (