Scheduling Team Lead

Date: Oct 20, 2026 Location: Cary, IL, US, 60013 Company: Aptar Group Join our team and Be You Be Aptar. Scheduling Team Leader Reports to: Director, S&OP Location: Full onsite (Cary, IL) Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship. The Scheduling Team Lead is a working leadership position responsible for supervising and coordinating the Cary site’s Planner/Schedulers to support prompt response times, competitive lead times, reliable schedule execution, and best-in-class KPIs. The position reports to the Director of S&OP and serves as the primary conduit between the Director, the scheduling team, and Operations. As a Scheduling Team Leader, You Will: Act as a first point of escalation for all site-level activities on a day-to-day basis, and drive resolution of issues that prevent orders from being fulfilled completely and on-time. Responsible for 4 direct employees. Provide daily direction, workload prioritization, coaching, and performance management for the scheduling team. Assist with hiring and training employees. Provide annual performance review for direct employees and hold regular one-one-one meetings to provide coaching and feedback. Responsible to identify, document and implement best practices. Establish clear ownership and backup coverage across the four planning responsibilities. Advise leadership and master scheduler of production status issues and escalate problems to ensure labor, tools, equipment, and services are provided as needed. Use SAP scheduling applications daily to schedule production orders based on available plant resources, inventory, equipment, and production work schedules, while meeting customer demand. Generate and maintain production orders. Lead the daily alignment of production schedules with Operations, ensuring that near-term schedules are realistic, executable, and understood by the responsible production teams. Facilitate a disciplined daily schedule review with Planning and Operations. Schedule work center activities that result in minimum work order rescheduling, high utilization of work center capacities, and level loading Work with the production team to ensure the schedule is executed and to identify opportunities to improve output and efficiency while meeting customer needs. Monitor schedule adherence, production-plan attainment, OTIF, lead times, order confirmations, schedule changes, and other agreed scheduling KPIs. Identify repeated causes of schedule disruption and coordinate corrective actions with Operations, Purchasing, Customer Service, Quality, and other supporting functions. Maintain accountability for timely communication of schedule changes, shortages, and risks affecting customer commitments. Daily communication with the purchasing team to confirm parts are being procured to support the production schedule. Responsible to maintain appropriate levels of inventory to meet customer demands and targeted financial objectives. Identify and address slow moving or obsolete inventory. Provide rapid communication to the customer service team for inquiries or status changes related to customer commitments and needs. This includes timely order confirmations, and immediate communication of any delays or shortages. Understand production parameters in detail: production orders, resources, alternate resources, calendars, lead times, etc. Develop and maintain a high level of material and product knowledge. Incorporate the company vision and values into day-to-day activities and behaviors. Contribute to and implement systems/process solutions to reduce inventory levels, work order transactions, and improve planning efficiency Actively participate in continuous improvement projects and may lead project teams. Other duties as assigned, according to the changing needs of the business Who We are Looking For Education Minimum of 2 years of college, Bachelor’s degree preferred in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Management, or Operat…

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