Scheduler/Planner - manufacturing

About LiDestri Foods

LiDestri Foods has grown from our roots as a pasta sauce and salsa manufacturer to become an R&D engine, formulating and producing innovative food products for our national and retailer brand partners. A family-run company based in Rochester, NY, LiDestri employs over 1,000 people across three U.S. locations. We have decades-long partnerships with some of the most respected consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies and the most highly inventive retailer brands.


Excellent Pay and Benefits:

• Great career-pathing
• Professional development, including unlimited online training courses
• Health insurance with premium contributions
• Dental, vision, HSA
• 100% company paid life insurance and long-term disability
• 401k - with employer match
• Paid time off to include- vacation, sick pay, wellness time off, and 10 holidays
• Company bonuses
• And many more....

POSITION SUMMARY:

Releases, Plans, and monitors material requirements to ensure alignment of approved materials with scheduled productions in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment. Works interdepartmentally to prevent material expiry, maintain inventory levels to mitigate warehouse space constraints, schedule dock deliveries. Advises management and key stakeholders of the status of material availability, and potential shortages to ensure a smooth, efficient production schedule can be maintained.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITES:

• Collaborate with other Schedulers / Planners on team to ensure all parties are aligned as it pertains to production timing and availability of materials
• On a daily basis, review planning system in Oracle and other planning tools, to ensure material deliveries and inventory levels align with production schedule to satisfy customer demands
• Issue financially binding purchase orders (Oracle) to suppliers for ingredients and packaging components needed for production as indicated by production schedules and Bills of Material
• Validate essential data on confirmation against initial order. If discrepancies are discovered, analyze their impact against production coverage and resolve accordingly, which includes but not limited to; prioritizing of deliveries, escalating to management for expedite costs, requesting rescheduling or decreasing of production
• Review system generated exceptions and request order revisions to support changing production requirements and develop optimal solutions to resolve potential issues in a way most beneficial to the company
• Independently analyze and resolve material shortages and communicate timely to key stakeholders to ensure the production schedule is aligned with available materials
• Identify and communicate critical issues, gaps and constraints to management for resolution purposes
• Work with Quality and/or Customer Success team to request and monitor material expiration extensions to reduce disposal and spoilage risks
• Provide feedback to Procurement on material attribute updates and need for escalation to prevent production shortages, as well as supplier performance and/or non-compliance
• Review item attributes in Oracle (i.e. FLM, MOQ, SS, etc..) to ensure future material planning of components aligns smoothly with production demands
• Monitor component levels at each applicable production facility to ensure excess, slow moving and/or obsolete inventories are minimized accordingly
• Collaborate with the Customer Success team to ensure material transitions, subs and obsolescence align with demands, while also reducing leftover inventory risks
• If required, ensure material deliveries from outside, cold storage or other LiDestri organizations are aligned with timing of production schedule
• Works in a safe manner; consistent with Company safety rules and regulations
• Report food safety & quality problems to personnel with authority to initiate action

REQUIRED EDUCATION, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree preferred or 3+ years of experience in supply chain/production scheduling/material planning; food/beverage manufacturing environment preferred
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and execute tasks in a deadline driven environment
• Strong root cause and problem-solving capability
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• Must have a good understanding and experience pertaining to material planning, production scheduling and supply chain functions
• Planning system knowledge is a plus; Oracle preferred
• Good communication skills are required
• Ability to work in a team environment, communicating effectively both internally and externally
• Analytical skills to work with numbers, dates, and calculations in detail with a high level of accuracy
• Takes initiative and addresses customer and business needs with the appropriate sense of urgency

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Regularly required to sit, use hands
• Occasionally need to lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, with a potential of up to 25 pounds
• Sedentary office environment
• Occasional exposure to manufacturing plant floor requiring the use of personal protective equipment (ear plugs, safety glasses, bump cap, skid-resistant leather shoes, etc.)
• Must follow Good Manufacturing Practice (hair net, no jewelry, no fake nails or eyelashes, no food/drink, gum, etc. in manufacturing Plant)

DISCLAIMER: The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed and is not an inclusive summary of job duties and responsibilities. The omission of specific statements of duties or responsibilities does not exclude them from the position. This job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and the employee and is subject to change by the Company as the needs of the Company and requirements of the job change.