Production Scheduling Manager

Duties/Responsibilities: · Participates in recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and training new staff in the department. · Oversees the daily workflow of the department. · Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations. · Handles discipline and termination of employees in accordance with company policy. · Serves as a primary point of contact for and liaison with sales, logistics, and manufacturing departments. · Collaborates with these departments to establish schedules and plans that allocate available resources to best serve client or customer needs. · Coordinates with supply chain to negotiate with outside supply vendors; to ensure accurate and timely delivery of orders. · Participates in SIOP meetings with supply chain, sales, marketing, and other related departments. · Development, preparation, and maintenance of production schedules. · Guide the production scheduling activities and resources to achieve maximum efficiency and meet output and timeline objectives. · Collaborate with internal teams to assess and incorporate materials, inventories, resource availability, and delivery commitments into schedules. · Monitor production progress and develop revised scheduling responsive to changes in flow of materials, designs, equipment, or other resources. · Utilize ERP systems, planning and scheduling software, or other database tools to develop and maintain master schedules. · Design and implement the production schedule plan considering all aspects of production including low cost, timeliness, and effectiveness. · Monitor the materials inventory, track progress of production, and review factors which affect production targets. · Work together with other employees to make sure that all issues that are related to scheduling are properly handled and resolved. · Rectify and/or reconcile differences and inaccuracies that have to do with inventory levels and associated variances. · Make sure schedules are given to employees in a timely fashion and that any discrepancies in the company's schedule are accounted for. · Coordinate the collection and assimilation of data for various projects, i.e., tracking of error metrics, claims, process rates, etc. · Ensure that every employee involved in the production process has a clear understanding of what is required to meet the order and needs of customers. · Maintain documents related to inventory (cycle counts/discrepancies), etc. · Manage day-to-day performance of department staff. · Ensures that project/department milestones/goals are met and adhering to approved budgets.