About this opportunity
We specialise in the manufacture and supply of rigid plastic and metal packaging servicing for the consumer and industrial sectors. Working onsite at our Tullamarine location as Production Scheduler, you are accountable for working cross-functionally with our manufacturing, distribution, supply planning and customer service teams to coordinate the timely release of production schedules, each with their unique complexities and constraints, and to ensure our products are produced on time, every time.
Through a proactive and critical thinking mindset, the Production Scheduler is accountable for planning production with the production and maintenance teams to ensure orders are delivered in-full and on-time, working closely with other departments ensure production plans and fulfilling customer requirements. Also co-ordinating resources and liaising with internal and external key contacts to ensure work is delivered on time, to our quality specifications and requirement is a requirement, in addition to planning and reviewing resin requirements and materials ordering and planning.
Your key responsibilities will be to:
- Conduct analysis to identify performance to target gaps, in collaboration with the Sales and Supply teams and identify solutions to mitigate risks.
- Escalate any foreseeable issues / changes.
- Book in stock and stock management, managing customer expectations, creating new items in SAP, as well as using SAP and the internal operating system daily.
- Create consistently predictable schedules for the plant, built within the scope of the agreed planning guidelines, based on the requirements of the Supply Planner, and optimising plant efficiencies.
- Revise and reschedule orders, when necessary, as per manufacturing lead times.
- Work closely with the Supply Planner to ensure production planning information is up to date and MPS reflects current data. Highlight any potential supply risks.
- Work to close tolerances and within time constraints in an efficient and organised manner within a fast paced and often high-pressure environment.
- Maintain the factory’s information system daily to provide information used in daily management reporting.
- Complete End of Month reconciliations reporting in a timely manner.
- Manage the daily and weekly reporting for schedule adherence and stock outs.
- Participant in making decisions/giving recommendations for Daily Production meetings, steering plant schedules to alignment.
- Provide recommendations and risk awareness to support plant operations.
- Perform frequent retiming of the current week's schedule to align with plant status and escalation of risks.
- Creating & maintain SOP’s for all role functions including scheduling data maintenance in the Master Production Schedule with the National Supply Planner
- Check BOMs and information integrity contained in workflows for accuracy and sensibility. Coach, knowledge transfer and develop other team members and create and update SOP’s for all key processes.
- Perform weekly balance of stock on hand in SAP against requirements for production to ensure continuous supply.
- Manage to finish material inventory levels, order finishing material stock (pallets, etc.), and liaise with suppliers & sites regarding timely supply and inventory levels.
- Manage specific consumable items and co-ordinate the monthly stock take
- Work to and achieving all KPIs through a continuous improvement culture
- Act as a safety leader and ensuring yourself and others perform their work safely
Your skills and experience
To be successful in this role, you’ll have:
- 3 Production planning/scheduling experience in a similar role, ideally within the FMCG, manufacturing or distribution industries
- Advanced technical understanding of planning and ordering to a manufacturing production schedule
- Well-developed analytical skills and problem-solving abilities
- High level of organisational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to understand, anticipate and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders.
- Experience in ERP systems (preferable SAP) and strong computer and excel skills.
- Demonstrated ability to influence adoption of a significant recommendation involving business process changes and/or new system applications.
- Ability to prioritise, multitask and work cross functionally
- Strong understanding of manufacturing operations
