Production Scheduler

Grand River Foods is a leading food solutions company serving customers in the North American grocery and food service industry. As a member of the Sunrise Farm family, we remain as dedicated as ever to both providing a quality work environment for our employees, as well as producing only the highest quality products for our customers. We are known for the great care we take with clients and employees alike.

Position Summary**:** The Production Scheduler is responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing short- and mid-term production schedules to ensure customer fulfillment, efficient use of resources, and adherence to operational targets. Working closely with Supply Chain, Production, Purchasing, and Shipping teams, this role balances capacity, labor, and material availability while minimizing schedule changes, changeovers, and downtime. The Production Scheduler plays a key role in achieving a high schedule adherence and driving continuous improvement across plant operations.

PRIORITY**:** Ensure safe, efficient, and reliable production execution by optimizing schedules, balancing labor and capacity, minimizing changeovers, and proactively managing material and operational constraints to support on-time customer delivery and inventory targets

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and maintain daily and weekly production schedules at least 4 weeks in advance, based on approved sales forecasts, inventory targets, and capacity
• Maintain a rolling 5–12 week master production schedule using MRP to support long-term planning and material procurement
• Lock in weekly production schedules and minimize changes during the lock-in period
• Monitor production progress, runtime efficiency, and schedule conformance; adjust schedules as required
• Identify, analyze, and communicate plant capacity constraints and material risks
• Coordinate closely with Production, Purchasing, Procurement, Inventory, Shipping, Sales and Finance teams to ensure readiness of labor, equipment, and materials
• Ensure required protein are ordered and available to support scheduled production
• Track and communicate material shortages or delivery changes that may impact production schedules
• Lead weekly production planning and alignment meetings with Plant, Production, and Supply Chain leadership
• Participate in daily production huddles to communicate schedules and manage real-time adjustments
• Monitor KPIs including schedule conformance, fill rates, runtime efficiency, changeovers, and protein inventory levels
• Support continuous improvement initiatives through data analysis, root cause investigations, and process enhancement recommendations