Production Scheduler

​​ Salary Range: 47,650 - 68,500

Job Location: Clifton, NJ

Job type: Full-Time

Type of role: On-Site

About Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit .

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.

Join Our Thriving Team as a Production Scheduler

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the specialty chemical industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

What You'll Do:

Our Production Schedulers are responsible for scheduling production and maintaining raw material inventory at the site to successfully meet customer orders.

What We're Looking For:

• Create and manage production schedules to meet customer requirements and best utilize the company’s production capacity.
• Purchase, schedule and coordinate deliveries of raw materials / chemicals to support the production schedule while managing lead-times, storage space and production requirements.
• Work closely with various departments to maintain adequate product inventories.
• Actively assess production requirements and build the production schedule aligned with customer demands, safety stock levels, and capacity limitations.
• Interface with Supply Chain & Customer Service to ensure product availability and communicate any potential delays.
• Establish and maintain safety stock levels for packaged products based on usage, forecasts and demand.
• Monitor and manage slow-moving & non-working inventories for rework and blending, as needed.
• Partner with the Warehouse Manager to maintain adequate finished product stock & address storage space issues and concern.
• Confirm pricing of raw material purchases for the production schedule with supplier and corporate purchasing.

Skills That Make a Difference:

• High School Diploma for GED required, Associates degree a plus
• Minimum of 3-years’ experience in manufacturing, QA, or inventory control; previous production planning role is a plus.
• Microsoft Excel Skills to use pivot tables & formulas to analyze production, deliver weekly updates within <24-hour turnaround
• Use Excel or SAP reports to identify bottlenecks to reduce downtime.
• Track raw material usage to ensure inventory is available to meet production demand.
• Schedule production based on materials, equipment availability & customer demand to maintain on-time batch start.
• Create and update production schedule, monitor material availability to ensure 100% accuracy in order creation & scheduling entries .

Working Conditions:

• Physical, Regulatory & Safety Requirement
• Ability to lift and handle objects weighing up to 40 lbs.
• Monday-Friday, 8-hour shifts with ability and willingness to work OT as needed
• Ability to sit for long periods of time Ability to successfully complete and maintain safety training requirement

Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together! 

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities. 

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today. 

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic. 

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