What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Planner position at Hueman PE Talent Solutions?
Custom Veterinary Services is hiring a Full-Time Production Planner in Burlington, VT.
As a Planner, you will play a critical role in ensuring smooth operations by creating and maintaining daily and weekly production schedules. This detail-oriented position focuses on effectively coordinating sales orders through the manufacturing process, addressing unexpected production challenges, and providing accurate scheduling data to internal departments.
Custom Veterinary Services is a premier contract manufacturer of custom-formulated nutritional supplements, and dermatological and grooming liquid products for the animal health and pet products markets. We are a full-service, turnkey manufacturer, taking projects from product concept to market-ready finished goods. We work hand-in-hand with our customers to help identify the right technical solutions to their product desires, design and develop stable and efficacious formulas, manage a robust scale-up process, design and order all packaging and materials, and execute full-scale production for customer-ready products.
Job Responsibilities:
- Works daily with multiple departments to create, plan, establish, and maintain filling/packaging schedules, to maximize operational efficiencies and meet shipping dates according to customer orders.
- Tracks progress of filling and packaging and coordinates multiple departments to move orders through the operational process.
- Serves as the primary source for all scheduling questions.
- Modifies schedules to align with changing business needs as required. Update scheduling reports for multiple departments.
- Works to continuously refine scheduling tools.
- Provides visibility to Operations of how we can use workers and resources in the most effective manner.
- Communicates with Operations to ensure due dates will be met and escalates concerns to VP of Operations as needed.
- Owns key performance indicators related to scheduling such as Schedule adherence, schedule accuracy, on time, in full, etc.
- Monitors factors that impact schedule adherence including equipment capacities, bulk, components, and raw material level inventories, customer requests, product quality, etc.
- Identify problems and help improve processes.
- Use software to generate reports and schedules.
- Ensure that company deadlines are met.
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field (preferred).
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, Google Sheets, and basic QuickBooks knowledge.
- 2 years of planning or scheduling experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong communication, organizational, and time-management skills.
- Ability to analyze data and respond quickly to production challenges.
To lead the pet products industry through excellence in quality, innovation and service, and a commitment to improving the lives of our employees, our customers and our pets.
If you are interested in learning more about a career with Custom Veterinary Services as a Production Planner, apply today!
Salary : $65,000 - $75,000
