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Polywater is looking for a Master Scheduler & Planner who is analytical, inquisitive, and energized by solving complex scheduling and capacity challenges. This role requires someone with a strong work ethic who can anticipate needs, adapt quickly, and build productive relationships across departments.\nAs an employee-owned, growing organization, we look for people who demonstrate our core values every day: Positive Attitude, Work Ethic, Inquisitive, Provides Solutions, and Team Player. The right person will take ownership of the production plan while working collaboratively with Customer Service, Sales, Manufacturing, Purchasing, Quality, Warehouse, and Logistics to keep priorities aligned and customer commitments on track. If you thrive in a small, innovative environment where your ideas and contributions have a visible impact, we’d like to hear from you.\nPosition Duties:\nThe Master Scheduler & Planner is responsible for developing, maintaining, and executing the production schedule in a high mix, high volume manufacturing\noperation. This position serves as the central coordinator between Customer Service, Sales, Manufacturing, Packaging, Purchasing, Quality, Warehouse, and Logistics to ensure optimal production flow, inventory availability, capacity utilization, and on-time customer delivery. The Master Scheduler & Planner utilizes strong analytical and organizational skills and is highly proficient in ERP/MRP systems.\nCore duties:\nDevelop, maintain, and optimize master production schedules for manufacturing and packaging operations by aligning customer demand, forecasts, inventory levels, capacity, and daily production requirements. \nSchedule, sequence, and adjust production orders across multiple work centers while balancing labor, equipment, and material constraints, partnering with production leadership to ensure efficient, executable schedules that support business priorities and on-time delivery. \nAnalyze production capacity, labor availability, equipment utilization, and material requirements to develop short- and long-term plans, identify constraints, and recommend solutions that maximize work center performance. \nDevelop finite schedules to optimize load balancing across manufacturing and packaging resources while supporting annual budgeting and capacity planning through data-driven analysis. \nCollaborate with Purchasing and Inventory Control to ensure availability of raw materials, packaging materials, and intermediates to support production schedules while optimizing inventory turns and maintaining high customer service levels. Monitor inventory performance and ERP transactions to improve inventory accuracy, minimize stockout, excess inventory, and obsolete/expired materials. \nMaintain accurate ERP planning data, including lead times, work center capacities, and scheduling parameters, while leveraging ERP/MRP tools to release, manage, and track production orders. Assure data integrity across planning, inventory, and production transactions, generated actionable performance and capacity reports, and supported ERP system enhancements, testing, and user training initiatives. \nRe-prioritize schedules as customer requirements, material availability, equipment issues, or production conditions change. \nPerforms other duties as assigned. \nKnowledge, Skills and Abilities\nBachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Business, Industrial Engineering, or related field preferred. Equivalent combination of education and relevant experience will be considered. \nMinimum 8 years of production planning, scheduling, or supply chain experience in a manufacturing environment. \nExperience in chemical manufacturing, blending, batch processing, packaging, or related process industries preferred. \nExperience scheduling high-mix, high-volume operations with multiple work centers strongly preferred. \nExpertise experience with ERP/MRP systems, advanced scheduling tools, Excel, and reporting dashboards required. \nProven team player with a can-do attitude, able to work with minimal supervision once fully trained. \nCommunication and interpersonal skills to effectively work with others. \nLanguage skills: English required \nThrives working in a small, innovative team environment. \nPhysical Requirements:\nRegularly required to sit and perform computer-based work for extended periods. \nFrequently required to use hands and fingers to operate a computer, keyboard, telephone, and other office equipment. \nRegularly required to communicate effectively with employees, customers, and others in person, by telephone, and through electronic communication. \nOccasionally required to stand, walk, reach, bend, or move throughout the office. \nOccasionally required to lift, carry, push, or pull office materials or equipment weighing up to 20 pounds. \nRequires the ability to view and work with computer screens, documents, and other written materials. \nWork is primarily performed in a professional office environment. \nDisclaimer\nThis job description is not intended to contain a comprehensive listing of all duties and responsibilities required of the employee. 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