Master Production Scheduler & Capacity Planner (Manufacturing)

Job Description

Job Description

Day-in-the-Role

It’s 8:30 a.m. in Jonesboro, AR. You’ve just wrapped a quick stand-up with production, procurement, and logistics. An urgent customer order just landed, so you open your scheduling software, review inventory positions, reconcile open work orders, and fine-tune the master schedule. By midday, you’re modeling capacity scenarios to remove a bottleneck on a high-demand line. Before you leave, you analyze performance trends, update stakeholders on schedule shifts, and capture improvement ideas for tomorrow.

What You’ll Take On

• Build, own, and continually refine production schedules that balance demand, capacity, and inventory.
• Synchronize plans with production, procurement, and logistics to ensure material availability and resource alignment.
• Track progress against plan, re-sequence operations, and adapt swiftly to demand or capacity changes.
• Interrogate data to spot trends and drive smarter, faster scheduling decisions.
• Keep cross-functional partners informed with clear, timely communication on changes and impacts.
• Use scheduling tools and advanced Excel skills to maintain accurate schedules, KPIs, and reports.
• Surface potential bottlenecks early and propose practical, data-backed solutions.
• Champion continuous improvement to boost scheduling precision and overall productivity.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience in production planning or scheduling within a manufacturing environment.
• Analytical strength and the ability to make sound, data-driven decisions.
• Fluency with scheduling software and the Microsoft Office Suite (especially Excel).
• Clear communicator with strong interpersonal skills across cross-functional teams.
• Meticulous, organized, and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced setting.
• Adaptable and resilient as priorities evolve throughout the day.

Technical Proficiencies

• Production Optimization
• Inventory Management & Control

Join us in Jonesboro and help transform demand signals into executable, efficient production plans that delight our customers.