Master Scheduler

**Why Choose Us?**
Novolex® is a leader in packaging innovation, choice and sustainability. We manufacture products in paper, plastic and sustainable materials for the food, retail, health and industrial markets.

**Our Sustainability Commitment**
The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.

**How You'll Perform the Role**
- Manage Production planning and scheduling activities.
- Lead and mentor production and scheduler/planner.
- Daily, prepare and distribute schedules, monitor schedule attainment and follow-up significant concerns with production and/or management.
- Review customer requirements far enough in advance to detect potential problems in meeting those customer requirements. This process must occur in a timeframe that allows for corrective action and minimize the impact to the customer.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to containment and counter measures where needed to ensure OTIF targets are met.
- Manage and coordinate creation and updating of all engineering changes and BOM’s, to ensure product is available to meet launch date and volume.
- Liaise with Quality Assurance and Sales on quality issues that affect deliveries, communicate scheduling deviations with Customer Service, maintain up to date system files regarding new or changing data.
- Participate in information exchange with other departments as necessary.
- Maintenance and optimization of inventory.
- Continuously evaluate and adjust as necessary inventory buffers based on demand variability, desired customer service levels and process capabilities.
- Take initiative to minimize total system obsolescence exposure. Use a problem-solving method to determine root cause(s) and prevent recurrence of materials problems.
- Maintain daily/weekly/monthly inventory reports to ensure resources/inventory are available to meet customer demand.
- Capacity planning and preventive maintenance scheduling.
- Identify report and recommend solutions on capacity restrictions for the purpose of proactive planning and elimination of bottlenecks that affect capacity planning.
- Schedule and coordinate with production and maintenance, machine, and tools maintenance and/or overhauls.
- Ensure routine communications sessions take place with Production, Customer Service, Warehouse and Quality Assurance.
- Communicate performance and other information through posting of charts, bulletins, memos, etc. as required.
- Perform other duties as assigned by Management.
- College degree in Business and/or APICS certification an asset.
- Minimum 5 years in manufacturing production control and inventory management, experience in a fast paced, high volume environment.
- Knowledge of extrusion, thermoforming and assembly technology.
- Ability to multitask in a fast paced, growth environment with many competing priorities and deadlines.
- Strong understanding of Computers and ERP Software.
- Adheres to company policies, procedures, and safety standards.
- Must possess the ability to work well under pressure in a team environment and relate to people in a professional and mature way. Strong work ethic is required.

**Work Conditions**:

- This job requires adjusting to a variety of working environments, such as office, manufacturing plant and Warehouse conditions. However, most of the working time is spent in an office environment.
- Frequent interruptions.
- Flexibility of work hours required to deal with problems on a 24-hour, 7-day basis.
- Work Pressure from multiple sources; customers, Sales, Manufacturing.

**What You'll Get From Us** Benefits**

With safety as our top priority and a commitment to employee well-being an important focus, we offer comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical, dental and vision insurance (including Telehealth options) as well as a variety of other well-being resources focused on mental, physical and financial health. Specific benefits and well-being programs may vary depending on where you work.

**Community Engagement**

At Novolex, giving back to the local communities that support us is important. Our Focused Giving Program prioritizes support for organizations whose missions promote sustainability initiatives or address food and hunger needs. We also encourage facility level support of activities in the communities where our employees live and work.

**Training and Development**

We offer constant opportunities for advancement. From skills development to advanced education programs, training and development programs and courses are available through Novolex University. Programs include company and industry training curricula, support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program, and a Learning Manageme