We are seeking an experienced Planning & Scheduling Manager to oversee production planning and scheduling within a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
This role is responsible for developing and managing production schedules across pre-weigh, compounding, and filling operations, ensuring efficient resource utilization, material availability, and on-time order fulfillment.
The ideal candidate brings a strong background in consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturing, production planning, and cross-functional collaboration, with the ability to anticipate challenges, optimize workflows, and support operational growth.
Key Responsibilities
Production Planning & Scheduling
- Develop and maintain rolling multi-week production schedules across pre-weigh, compounding, and filling operations.
- Translate customer orders and material availability into actionable production schedules and batch-level work orders.
- Verify bills of materials (BOMs), inventory levels, and material readiness before releasing orders to production.
- Coordinate production sequencing based on customer deadlines, equipment capacity, and operational priorities.
- Monitor production progress, identify scheduling conflicts, and implement adjustments to minimize delays.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Purchasing, Receiving, and Quality teams to monitor material deliveries, testing, and release timelines.
- Collaborate with Account Management to prioritize customer orders, accommodate rush requests, and communicate realistic production and shipping timelines.
- Work closely with Production Supervisors and floor personnel to establish daily production expectations.
- Lead daily production check-ins to address operational challenges and maintain schedule alignment.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for production scheduling issues, driving timely resolutions.
Capacity Planning & Operational Improvement
- Evaluate production capacity across multiple compounding tanks and filling lines to identify potential bottlenecks.
- Analyze daily production throughput, including units produced, batch volumes, labor hours, and changeover times.
- Provide management with insights into production efficiency, resource utilization, and job-level costs.
- Track and report key performance indicators, including schedule adherence, on-time delivery, and capacity utilization.
- Identify opportunities to improve scheduling accuracy, operational efficiency, and production throughput.
- Support the development of scalable planning processes as manufacturing capacity expands.
Qualifications
Required
- 5+ years of production planning or scheduling experience within a manufacturing environment.
- 2+ years of leadership or people management experience.
- Previous experience in consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturing.
- Strong understanding of batch manufacturing processes, including pre-weigh, compounding, filling, and packaging.
- Advanced Excel skills, including experience developing and maintaining production scheduling models.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple production priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with production teams, leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders.
Preferred
- Bilingual in English and Spanish (highly preferred; intermediate proficiency or higher).
- Experience with ERP, MRP, or production scheduling systems.
- Familiarity with current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) and batch record documentation.
- Experience supporting growing or high-volume manufacturing operations.
