Scheduler at Veritiv in Mesquite, Texas

Overview

Our Production Scheduler is responsible for collaborating with cross-functional teams to forecast, plan, and optimize production workflows, ensuring a balance between customer demand and operational requirements. This role plans, monitors, and adjusts timelines - from prepress and press operations through finishing and shipping - to ensure efficient equipment utilization and on-time delivery.

• Develop and maintain detailed production schedules to meet customer requirements and delivery deadlines.
• Coordinate with customer service, prepress, production, finishing, and shipping teams to align workflow priorities.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and optimize workflows.
• Maintain accurate data in scheduling and ERP systems, generate reports, and ensure data integrity for job tracking and performance analysis.
• Performs other duties and/or responsibilities as assigned.

• Ability to work in a fast paced environment to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardizations exist.
• Team player with strong organizational skills.
• Work Experience:
  
  2+ years related experience preferred
• Excellent verbal, written, people, and diplomacy skills are required.
• Strong problem-solving and attention to detail skills are required.
• Education:
  
  High School Diploma/GED Preferred

• Regularly working in a non-climate-controlled warehouse where exposure to cold, heat, damp or humid conditions may occur.
• Exposure to loud noise.
• Exposure to dust, mechanical hazards, moving objects, and moving vehicles.

• Ability to lift, twist and carry up 50 - 75 pounds, manipulate (push and pull) up to 160 pounds of product with material handling equipment and skids weighing up to 2,000 pounds utilizing pallet jack.
• Walking/Standing - walk throughout the warehouse to complete customer orders. Stand when operating order picker or reach truck equipment and when operating cutter.
• Sitting - sit only when driving sit-down material handling equipment.
• Lifting - lift items weighing a few ounces up to 150 pounds with assistance.
• Stooping - performed when filling orders or putting away products assigned to floor level locations. May bend at the waist.
• Kneeling - kneel when filling orders or putting away products assigned to floor level locations.

• Engaging and inclusive culture with employee-led Employee Resource Groups, recognition platform, etc.
• Extensive training opportunities, professional development programs, career pathing, and mentorship opportunities.
• Collaborative atmosphere with our customers and suppliers to create healthier, safer and more sustainable communities through our responsible operations and innovative solutions.
• Healthcare benefits (including medical, dental, vision, and health savings account), life, AD&D, and disability insurance, 401k, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, employee assistance program, and other fringe benefits.

About Veritiv Together with its subsidiaries, Veritiv is the leading full-service provider of packaging solutions. Veritiv also provides Jan San, hygiene, print and publishing products and services. Veritiv serves customers in a wide range of industries, through team members around the world helping shape the success of its customers.