Paperboard Products Production Scheduler

A typical week often involves order-to-machine scheduling, capacity reviews, and the steady cadence of plant coordination — translating customer orders into machine schedules, balancing grade changes that take hours to switch over, working with sales on ship-date commitments, sitting with production on schedule recovery after a downtime event. You're often balancing the cost of grade changes against ship-date promises. On-time ship rate and machine utilization are the operating measures.

The harder part is often the change-over economics of paperboard production — switching grades costs hours of low-yield run, and consolidating orders by grade improves efficiency but stretches lead times. Variance across mills is real: virgin-fiber and recycled mills carry different machine constraints; corrugating-grade and folding-cartonboard production each have their own scheduling rules.

The role tends to suit people who are patient with constraint-based planning and comfortable with mill-floor realities. CPIM and APICS credentials anchor advancement on the supply-chain track. The trade-off is the constant push-pull between sales and production — every schedule answers to both, and neither side fully claims you.