Senior Paperboard Products Production Scheduler

Senior paperboard-scheduling work threads across order-to-machine planning, junior-scheduler mentoring, and cross-functional coordination — leading scheduling work on major-customer orders, supporting grade-change economics across machine schedules, mentoring junior schedulers, working with sales and operations on commitment integrity. Schedule attainment and on-time-in-full delivery anchor the operating measures.

The harder part is often the change-over economics of paperboard production at senior levels — grade changes cost hours of lower-yield run, and senior schedulers consolidate orders strategically while protecting customer commitments. Variance across employers is real: large integrated paperboard companies run senior schedulers within structured production-control functions; specialty paperboard operations (folding cartonboard, corrugated medium) run within sector-specific frameworks; multi-mill operations require coordination across plant locations.

It fits people patient with constraint-based planning at scale, comfortable with mill-floor operational realities, and steady under sales-and-operations tension. CPIM and APICS senior credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is the constant-rescheduling reality at senior levels — even senior plans collapse under supplier, equipment, or market disruptions, and senior schedulers absorb the volatility while keeping mills running.