Come join a leader in Protective Foam Solutions! At Alleguard, we’re built from the ground up to expand and shape our customers’ businesses. We understand the diversity of challenges that customers are facing across different industries, from confidence in their supply chain to needing the latest innovations at their fingertips. These challenges are also opportunities, and whether our customers are in construction, protective packaging, cold-chain or other industries, we are relentless in seeing around corners and going the extra mile to help their business succeed.
Position: Scheduler
Job Summary
Produce daily load schedules and plant revenue forecasts for orders to customers’ locations by assigning orders to optimized loads while working with transportation, production, and sales to ship products on time and in full meeting or exceeding the customer’s demands.
Responsibilities
- Scheduler is the direct link between production, shipping, transportation, and sales ensuring that all products are shipped to customers in a timely manner and by deadline.
- Must possess the ability to align workload with production schedules, ensuring timely coordination of shipments based on order completion estimation and the availability of transportation resources on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
- Must be detail oriented with administrative skills with the ability to understand the shipping and receiving practices of the company.
- Learn and understand outside company cultures to bring about great customer service and lower our transportation cost exposure, growing our bottom line impact.
- Review and monitor inbound material needs and intercompany transfer schedule to ensure critical components are received/transferred to meet company needs.
- Confer with other departments to determine progress of work and completion dates especially production, transportation, customer service, and shipping
- Analyze and report on details and specifics daily for current shipments as well as forecasted shipments.
- An integral contributor to managing our short-term forecasting capabilities and our on-time, in full (OTIF) metrics within our BI platform.
- Direct facilitator of all weekly delivery and scheduling calls for assigned plant(s).
- Other duties assigned by the Scheduling Manager
Qualifications
- Transportation and Logistics highly preferred
- Administrative knowledge and skills in transportation
- Shipping and Receiving knowledge preferred
- Math, computer (Microsoft Windows, Excel, etc.), and organizational skills
- Experience in production, planning, or other related fields
- Strong project management skills and ability to prioritize and multitask
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work well in teams
Benefits
We believe in taking care of the people who take care of our customers.
Our benefits package offers eligible team members access to:
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
Alleguard Company Values
- Safety - We care for our employees by creating and maintaining an environment with consistent actions, trusted processes, and courageous conversations.
- Trust - We build confidence with our employees and customers through dependability, respect, clear communication, and service.
- Integrity - We are consistent in always striving to do the right thing by accepting responsibility for our decisions and actions.
- Collaboration - Our diversity is the catalyst that drives our teamwork, creative problem-solving, and partnership.
- Growth - We invest, develop, and empower our people to build our company so our customers will experience outstanding success, in turn contributing to our own.
- Accountability - We achieve our success by holding ourselves and each other to high standards of behavior, commitment, and personal responsibility.
Come join us!
We’re a dynamic, high-growth business, invested in helping you grow with Alleguard.
Many of our colleagues have been with us for decades. That’s because we believe in collaborating as a team to serve and support each other as well as we serve and support our customers.
Alleguard’s employee-centric culture is designed to help you maximize your talents, learn new skills, and gain valuable experience on the way to achieving your professional goals.