Production Scheduler

Our Pact Packaging division is pioneering a whole of product life cycle approach to sustainable packaging. Partnering with global brands to local dairy producers, we integrate supply chain efficiencies and sustainable practices into everything we design and manufacture.

Job Description

About this opportunity

The Production Scheduler is responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordinating blow molding operations activities to ensure optimal utilisation of resources, timely delivery of products, and alignment with customer demand. This role requires close collaboration with production, maintenance, quality, and supply chain teams to maintain efficient operations and minimise downtime. It is critical that we consistently meet our production timelines to uphold quality and customer trust.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Develop and maintain daily, weekly, and monthly production schedules for blow molding machines to ensure orders are delivered in-full and on-time.
• Plan and review resin requirements, materials ordering and execute planning.
• Monitor production progress and adjust schedules to accommodate changes in demand, machine availability, or material supply.
• Coordinate with procurement and inventory teams to ensure availability of raw materials and packaging.
• Collaborate with maintenance to schedule preventive maintenance and minimize production disruptions.
• Analyse production data to identify bottlenecks and recommend process improvements.
• Communicate schedule changes and priorities to production supervisors and operators.
• Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and environmental standards.
• Maintain accurate records of production schedules, output, and downtime.
• Inventory requirements including co-ordinating resources and liaising with internal and external key contacts to ensure work is delivered on time, to our quality specifications and requirements.
• Manage the planning and purchasing of raw materials to ensure material requirements can be fulfilled, against supplier and transport availability to meet the Production Plan.
• Manage to finish material inventory levels, order finishing material stock (pallets, etc.), and liaise with suppliers and sites regarding timely supply and inventory levels.
• Actively participate in the safety, health, environmental and wellbeing activities, maintaining compliance to policies, processes, and safe systems of working.

Your skills and experience

To be successful in this role, you'll have:

• specialist level experience in a similar role, ideally within the FMCG, manufacturing or distribution industries.
• Experience in ERP systems (preferable SAP) and strong computer and excel skills (advanced technical understanding of planning and ordering to a manufacturing production schedule).
• High level of organisational skills and attention to detail
• Strong communication skills at the appropriate level or all stakeholders - active listening, written, verbal and formal presentations as required.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing operations.

Qualifications

Tertiary qualifications in Supply Chain/Commerce/Business/Engineering or similar discipline, or other supply chain qualifications

Additional Information

About us

Our vision is to lead the circular economy through packaging, reuse and recycling solutions. It's a future-driven group commitment, designed to create lasting value.

We're the largest plastics recycler in Australia and New Zealand and one of the region's biggest user of recycled materials. We have 6,000+ team members, operate 110 manufacturing facilities across 15 countries, and our customers include some of the world's largest brands that consumers know and trust.

As a global leader in circular and sustainable packaging solutions, we've committed to lead the circular economy through a $500 million investment plan.

For us, it's about finding new and better ways of doing things. Ways to grow business, to give back to the environment and to enrich people's lives every day.

Our promise is to create a better and more prosperous world all round.

That's our future Pact. Let's lead the way together.