Production Planner

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!