As an industry leading corrugated product manufacturer, we at Independent Corrugator Inc. (ICI) are committed to supplying structurally and aesthetically appealing corrugated material within a quick time frame. We are an ever growing and ever-changing company currently seeking a highly motivated Production Scheduler to join our team!
JOB SUMMARY:
The Production Scheduler will monitor and maintain all roll stock consumption and inventory levels, coordinating replenishment as required on an ongoing basis, and support the maintenance, and distribution of reports as needed..
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Maintain a positive, open, and welcome atmosphere amongst the team to everyone within the department.
- Maintain an efficient, positive working professional environment within the department, ensuring positive engagement and support in all clients, suppliers, employees, and department interactions.
- Monitor and order roll-stock from approved suppliers to maintain inventory levels as required.
- Coordinate roll stock inventory with orders to ensure efficient full filament of orders.
- Process incoming orders from sales through scheduling to each respective department as required per workflow (including Rod-Coating, Corrugating, and Slitting departments.)
- Schedule line-up to support production on both corrugators, ensuring they are correct, efficient, and resolve any issues to ensure facilitating on time deliveries of all finished goods, including maintenance time adjustments.
- Responsible for supporting accurate weekly physical inventory as well as monthly production reports and other required reports from scheduling.
- Provide help and information to Sales and CSRs as needed.
- Monitor and assist with board grades and/or information when required for systems updates.
- Confer with management to investigate and resolve any team concerns, complaints, or grievances.
- Help with coverage and holiday relief within department as required.
- Highlight opportunities for improvements to efficiency, process approach, efficiency, quality or other in both short-term as well as long-term elements of our business.
ACADEMIC AND EXPERINCE REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, and/or 1–2 years of related experience
- Experience scheduling in a corrugated field preferred
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Strong communication (written and verbal) skills to engage, inspire and support team members.
- Working knowledge of equipment design and capabilities an asset (to enable translation into efficient scheduled operation.)
- Knowledge of factors driving costs in production and assets utilization, (to enable support of daily decision making that will drive efficiencies and costs reduction and will help highlighting areas of potential improvement.)
- Safety conscious mindset while working with and around the machinery.
- Team player and positive attitude.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
- Predominately office-based role, however will require regular production floor walks as status checks, along with warehouse inventory checks & validations. The noise level in the production environment is usually moderate to occasionally loud.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts awareness and support of all safety regulations required.
- Must be able to support work across all shifts
WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:
- Production 50%
- Sales/Service 20%
- Suppliers 10%
- Customers 10%
- Shipping 10%
Independent Corrugated Inc. (ICI) is committed to equal opportunity employment. This position is for a current vacancy, and accommodations are available upon request from people with disabilities during the recruitment and selection process. We also use AI-assisted tools provided through our recruitment platforms to support the review and ranking of applications. These tools support, but do not replace, human decision-making, and final hiring decisions are made by our team.
We thank all applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Salary: $65,000- $70,000
Pay: $65,000.00-$70,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Wellness program
Work Location: In person
