Scheduler/Planner at Avery Dennison — NeverHard

Job Description The Scheduler/Planner is accountable for both short term, tactical KPI’s as well as longer term strategic KPI’s to deliver quarterly and annual results. The role will focus on Production Scheduling, and monitoring of work centers along with improvements to processes and preparing reports, graphs, and charts of data to ensure overall efficiency. In addition, the Scheduler/Planner prepares business-related analyses and research for Supply Chain, Materials Management, and Logistics, prepares forecasts, analyzes trends related to Planning or Scheduling, and uses the analyses to compile reports and optimize production efficiency. Responsibilities: Production Scheduling & Operational Oversight: Captures production schedules, master schedules, operational schedules, shop work orders, material processing, requisitioning, work center monitoring, line-level associate guidance, and inter-scheduler coordination on specifications and timelines. Capacity Planning & Strategic Analysis: Captures capacity modeling scenarios, peak season planning, forecasts, comparative analyses, and trend, distribution, and network studies for inventory, delivery times, and fill rates. Stakeholder & Business Unit Liaison: Captures the primary Jersey finishing liaison role, policy/procedure interpretation, and customer, vendor, and subcontractor interfacing. Continuous Improvement & Quality (ELS): Captures process effectiveness initiatives, lean concepts, ELS problem-solving tools (A3 Thinking), continuous improvement, product/process quality, waste reduction, and rework elimination. Safety, Housekeeping & General Operations: Captures health & safety adherence, safe work practices, record maintenance, and departmental housekeeping/waste removal (including assisting other areas). Team Collaboration & Project Support: Captures cross-functional team goal alignment, shared team decision-making, facility support, and special project requests.