Production Scheduler

Position Summary:

Ensuring all tasks in the area of production planning cans

Key Activities / Measurables:

• Conduct weekly short- and medium-term planning based on forecasts and overarching can planning for Food and VSP

• Create daily and weekly production schedules

• Reconciliation between short-term scheduling and medium-term planning

• Coordinating planning activities within Sonoco as part of the supply chain

• Participation in the PSI process Europe for the VSP division

• Ensure continuity of material supply in close collaboration with the Ends and MPC planners

• independent and responsible material requirements planning and coordination with other departments

• Striving for optimal inventories while ensuring customer service and optimizing plant utilization

• Participation in the further development of existing planning methods

• Representation of colleagues within production planning

• Contributing to the further development of existing planning methods

• Representing colleagues within production planning

Knowledge & Skills Required:

Required

• Independent and responsible working style
• Solid experience with common MS Office software
• Good English skills, spoken and written
• High resilience, even under time pressure
• Affinity for numbers and strong communication skills
• good teamwork skills

Desirable

• Experience with ERP software (e.g., JDE, SAP, Oracle)

Personal Attributes

• Self-starter
• Influential and persuasive
• Customer focused
• Able to act on own initiative and ‘think outside the box’
• Enthusiastic, flexible and adaptable
• Willing to challenge in order to ensure fairness and ‘do the right thing’

Education Required:

Completed commercial vocational training

Education Preferred:

none

Experience:

experience with complex logistics processes in industry

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any legally protected characteristic.