Description
The Role
Production Scheduler owns the day-to-day and week-to-week production schedule. This role turns demand and supply plans into real, executable schedules while balancing labor, materials, inventory, quality, safety, and compliance. You’ll be working with a high number of SKUs, changing priorities, and real-world constraints. We’re looking for someone who can think ahead, stay flexible, and roll up their sleeves when things don’t go to plan.
This role is critical to minimizing inventory risk, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enabling profitable growth. The Production Scheduler serves as the central decision-maker for production sequencing, acting as the connective tissue between Sales, Supply Chain Planning, Procurement, Operations, Quality, and Compliance.
Responsibilities
Production Scheduling & Execution
- Own and maintain the Master Production Schedule (MPS) across all product categories.
- Convert monthly production plans into detailed weekly and daily schedules by department and process.
- Sequence production to optimize throughput, minimize changeovers, and protect quality outcomes.
- Continuously adjust schedules based on:
- Demand changes
- Labor availability
- Material constraints
- QA release timing
- Regulatory limitations
- Establish and maintain routings, run rates, batch sizes, and standard hours for all unit operations.
- Balance line loading across departments and shifts, including overtime planning and resource reallocation.
Cannabis Regulatory & Compliance Scheduling
- Integrate state and company regulatory requirements into all production schedules, including:
- Batch size limits
- Lot and genealogy dependencies
- Mandatory QA hold and testing timelines
- Quarantine and remediation scenarios
- Coordinate production timing with state traceability systems (e.g., METRC or equivalent).
- Schedule production around:
- State inspections and audits
- Reporting deadlines
- Compliance-driven process constraints
- Proactively identify and mitigate compliance risks related to production timing or sequencing.
Inventory & Material Planning
- Monitor and manage WIP and Finished Goods inventory to align with shipment velocity and sales forecasts.
- Build and maintain input allocations based on:
- Inventory availability
- Demand priorities
- Shelf-life considerations
- Confirm material readiness prior to schedule release and escalate shortages or risks compared to 90-day inventory schedule plan.
- Partner with Inventory and Finance teams to ensure reconciliation between AFS (available-for-sale) and state systems
Demand, Supply & Tradeoff Decisions
- Review demand forecasts and call out when plans don’t match capacity or constraints.
- Help leadership understand the tradeoffs between:
- SLA (Service Level Agreement)
- Inventory
- Labor cost
- Compliance risk
- Participate in S&OP / planning conversations as the voice of production reality.
- Own schedule changes and escalation when plans break.
Labor & Capacity Planning
- Build and maintain capacity models by department and process.
- Identify bottlenecks and work with Operations to improve flow.
- Use historical performance to improve schedule accuracy and labor planning.
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