Plant Scheduler - Judge Group

Location: Victoria, TX
Salary: $75,000.00 USD Annually - $80,000.00 USD Annually
Description: Our client is currently seeking a Plant Scheduler for their facility in Victoria Tx. The Plant Scheduler will manage inventory levels of finished goods and to support availability for high shipping levels. This position will create and maintain production schedule to achieve high productivity and meet customer demands.

This job will have the following responsibilities:

• Performs duties in a safe manner; Acts as a role model for Safety. Participates in and/or leads teams focused on safety
• Ensures the safety of all shift employees by having supervisors and team leads check the production floor for safety/housekeeping hazards throughout the shift and addressing issues
• Participates and promotes the Safety Behavior Program with all production employees; reviews issues with the EHS Manager and Production management team to ensure that all issues brought up by employees are addressed in a timely
• Safety committee member and follow all Company safety policies.
• Planning and Scheduling Management
• Schedule the production process and production departments by Material, Employee and Equipment availability to minimize company costs.
• Monitor workflow and schedules to ensure on-time
• Developed effective scheduling process and implement process
• Review production specifications in order to identify and report plant capacity
• Analyze and address production issues in a timely manner including manpower and material shortages and work with relevant departments to
• Provide daily production status updates for Production
• Issue priority list to guide the production
• Alert customer service of any delays in meeting the current
• Coordinate with Production Team to develop and execute production
• Work with Managers to develop potential solutions to improve production
• Coordinate with production, purchasing and finance teams to develop and maintain scheduling
• Generate various inventory related reports to Managers for critical decision making purposes (i.e. inventory projections, tableau, DOH).
• Review various reports daily adding or modifying work orders as
• Coordinates and requests sufficient materials for Production needs from Warehouse using the Pull Report and other analytical
• Provide capacity updates for new business and increased
• Direct plant transfers through warehouse
• Participate in regular phone and web based conference calls.
• Use software (JDE, Preactor, Logility, and AWOG) to generate reports and manage 
• Review and maintain item master data.
• Participates in and leads employee driven teams to address scrap, quality, safety, or other production related issues; actively participates in cost savings activities.
• Monitor pricing with vendors to insure best value to meet requirements.
• Authorize to enter stock transfers of repro, and finished goods to maintain inventory in other facilities
• Work close with all shifts to ensure customer needs are consistently met.
• Organize converting film area for inventory and efficient use of space.

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree not required but preferred
• 5 or more year’s progressively responsible manufacturing management experience preferred 
• Plastics manufacturing or Blown film extrusion/conversion experience and ISO 9000 experience preferred.

Contact: apatt@judge.com