Planner/Scheduler in CPG Manufacturing

Job Summary : A Planner and Scheduler in Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) manufactures production workflows, inventory, and resource allocation to meet customer demand on time. They create detailed, short-to-medium term, daily, and weekly schedules, balancing production capacity with material availability while minimizing downtime. This role ensures efficiency and cost-effectiveness in manufacturing, often interfacing between demand planning, procurement, and operations. Duties/ Responsibilities: Production Planning & Scheduling: Develop, maintain, and update daily/weekly production schedules for manufacturing lines, ensuring on-time delivery of customer orders. Inventory & Material Management: Coordinate with purchasing and procurement to ensure necessary raw materials and packaging components are available to support the production plan. Capacity Planning: Review production specifications, analyze plant capacity constraints, and optimize machine utilization. Communication & Coordination: Lead weekly/monthly meetings with Operations, Quality Control, and Supply Chain to align production goals and address issues. Monitoring & Optimization: Track performance against schedules, identify variances, and adjust plans to minimize downtime, reduce costs, and improve efficiency. System Maintenance: Utilize ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Visual ERP) to maintain data accuracy and generate production reports. Top Production Planning & Scheduling KPIs Capacity Utilization: Measures the percentage of total available production capacity currently being used. High utilization is critical in CPG to minimize overhead costs. On-Time Delivery (OTD): Tracks the percentage of orders delivered to customers on or before the requested date. Schedule Adherence/Compliance: Measures how closely the production floor follows the developed schedule. It ensures that planned jobs are started and finished as intended. Changeover Rate/Time (Setup Time): Critical for CPG, this measures the time taken to switch a production line from one product to another. Minimizing this is essential to increasing overall efficiency. Inventory Turnover: Tracks how often inventory is sold and replaced over a period. High turnover reduces storage costs for perishable or high-volume goods. Stockout Rate: Measures the frequency of running out of finished goods inventory. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE): A composite metric (Availability x Performance x Quality) that indicates the efficiency of production machinery. Production Cycle Time: The total time required to complete a manufacturing order from start to finish. Scrap Rate: Measures the amount of raw material or finished product wasted during production. Benefits: 401(k) Dental insurance Health insurance Health savings account Paid time off Parental leave Referral program Retirement plan Vision insurance Work Location: In person

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