Master Planner and Scheduler

MASTER PLANNER AND SCHEDULER

Are you a proactive, solutions-focused planning professional who enjoys bringing order to a fast-moving manufacturing environment? Polywater is looking for a Master Scheduler & Planner who is analytical, inquisitive, and energized by solving complex scheduling and capacity challenges. This role requires someone with a strong work ethic who can anticipate needs, adapt quickly, and build productive relationships across departments.

As an employee-owned, growing organization, we look for people who demonstrate our core values every day:
Positive Attitude, Work Ethic, Inquisitive, Provides Solutions, and Team Player. The right person will take ownership of the production plan while working collaboratively with Customer Service, Sales, Manufacturing, Purchasing, Quality, Warehouse, and Logistics to keep priorities aligned and customer commitments on track. If you thrive in a small, innovative environment where your ideas and contributions have a visible impact, we’d like to hear from you.

The Master Scheduler & Planner is responsible for developing, maintaining, and executing the production schedule in a high mix, high volume manufacturing operation. This position serves as the central coordinator between Customer Service, Sales, Manufacturing, Packaging, Purchasing, Quality, Warehouse, and Logistics to ensure optimal production flow, inventory availability, capacity utilization, and on-time customer delivery. The Master Scheduler & Planner utilizes strong analytical and organizational skills and is highly proficient in ERP/MRP systems.

• Develop, maintain, and optimize master production schedules for manufacturing and packaging operations by aligning customer demand, forecasts, inventory levels, capacity, and daily production requirements.
• Schedule, sequence, and adjust production orders across multiple work centers while balancing labor, equipment, and material constraints, partnering with production leadership to ensure efficient, executable schedules that support business priorities and on-time delivery.
• Analyze production capacity, labor availability, equipment utilization, and material requirements to develop short- and long-term plans, identify constraints, and recommend solutions that maximize work center performance.
• Develop finite schedules to optimize load balancing across manufacturing and packaging resources while supporting annual budgeting and capacity planning through data-driven analysis.
• Collaborate with Purchasing and Inventory Control to ensure availability of raw materials, packaging materials, and intermediates to support production schedules while optimizing inventory turns and maintaining high customer service levels. Monitor inventory performance and ERP transactions to improve inventory accuracy, minimize stockout, excess inventory, and obsolete/expired materials.
• Maintain accurate ERP planning data, including lead times, work center capacities, and scheduling parameters, while leveraging ERP/MRP tools to release, manage, and track production orders. Assure data integrity across planning, inventory, and production transactions, generated actionable performance and capacity reports, and supported ERP system enhancements, testing, and user training initiatives.
• Re-prioritize schedules as customer requirements, material availability, equipment issues, or production conditions change.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Business, Industrial Engineering, or related field preferred. Equivalent combination of education and relevant experience will be considered.
• Minimum 8 years of production planning, scheduling, or supply chain…