Production Scheduler
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Job Location:
Middletown, DE - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
In billions of syringes and in every second car worldwide Datwyler components make an important contribution to the safety of patients and drivers. The high-tech company focuses on high-quality system-critical elastomer components and holds leading positions in attractive global markets such as healthcare mobility connectivity general industry and food & beverage. With over 25 production sites on four continents sales in more than 100 countries and over 8000 employees the company headquartered in Switzerland generates annual sales of more than CHF 1000 million.
Our employees are the heart of Datwyler - we treat each other with respect trust and appreciation. We have strong roots and values that have been well established in our 100-year corporate history. Become part of our great team as a...
The Production Scheduler is responsible for developing maintaining and optimizing the production schedule to ensure efficient use of labor equipment and materials. This role coordinates closely with Production Supply Chain Quality and Maintenance to meet customer delivery requirements while minimizing downtime inventory imbalances and workflow disruptions.
Essential Functions
Scheduling & Shop Floor Management
- Creates and updates daily weekly and long-term production schedules based on customer demand material availability and capacity constraints.
- Converts production plans based on ales orders into executable production schedules for mixing molding trimming prewash coating and cleanroom operations.
- Sequences jobs to maximize throughput and minimize changeovers bottlenecks and delays to meet sales order goods issue dates and/or management priority targets.
- Coordinates with maintenance to schedule downtime for changeover cleaning maintenance and repair of tooling and equipment.
- Identifies scheduling conflicts capacity shortages and material gaps; propose and coordinate solutions.
- Identifies opportunities for improvement to increase produce-to-plan performance.
- Maintains and reports relevant scheduling-related metrics (e.g. produce to plan WIP queue status etc.).
Coordination & Communication
- Collaborates with Production Manager Supervisors and Leads to ensure alignment on labor and equipment availability.
- Collaborates with Maintenance and Tooling departments to ensure efficient scheduling of changeovers cleaning maintenance repairs etc.
- Communicates schedule changes priorities and risks to all relevant teams.
- Works with Supply Chain to confirm availability of raw materials components and WIP and ensure enough WIP material is available to complete weekly schedule.
- Provides completed sales order goods issue dates to Supply Chain on a weekly basis.
- Performs a weekly cycle count of WIP materials.
Data Management & Reporting
- Maintains accurate scheduling information in ERP/MES systems.
- Monitors and report daily weekly monthly and yearly schedule adherence and summarize causes of downtime or missed targets.
- Develops and generate daily and weekly reports on production performance capacity utilization and anticipated constraints.
- Tracks reports and adjusts WIP levels and coordinate movement to maintain flow and prevent backlog.
Continuous Improvement
- Supports lean manufacturing initiatives related to workflow optimization standard work and process stability.
- Implements and manages WIP lanes to feed prewash and cleanroom.
- Recommends improvements to scheduling logic workflows and planning tools.
- Participate in root-cause investigations when schedule disruptions occur.
Addition Functions
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Education & Experience
- Associate or Bachelors degree in Operations Management Supply Chain Business Engineering or related field (preferred).
- 25 years of experience in production planning scheduling or manufacturing coordination.
Skills & Competencies
- Experience with SAP and MES systems required.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced high-variability production environment.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration.
- Proficiency with Excel scheduling tools and data analysis.
- High attention to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
Be yourself at Datwyler
We are convinced that people make the difference. At Datwyler you will experience diversity and a wide range of career opportunities that only an international company can provide. Together we are increasing our agility accelerating digitalization and fostering sustainability. For motivated and talented employees we offer interesting development opportunities with training and assignments in a global environment. With us you can contribute with all of your creativity and all your ideas.
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About Company
With recognized core competencies in solution design, material know-how and operational excellence, we are a strategic engineering partner for innovative systems in …
