Strategic Production Scheduler - Columbus Plant
- Pay
- $78,000 – $156,000 per year
- Location
- United States > Columbus : Columbus Plant
- Listed
- 3 days ago
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You'll also have access to:
- Production areas that are clean, well-lit and temperature-controlled
- Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance
- Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans
- Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs, Medical Benefits start day 1
- Vacation - 120 hours of accrued vacation (1st yr is prorated) + vacation buy program + 5 personal days + 10 paid holidays
- Retiree Healthcare program
- Robust 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor's degree.
Overview
Develops and modifies production schedules and coordinates all related support activities through the manufacturing, testing, and approval process. Develops and implements capacity plans to coordinate labor, equipment, and activities to ensure execution of schedules to planned due dates. Measures workload queue's and minimizes bottlenecks in the supply chain. Provides direction to numerous support/operations areas.
Controls performance against schedules to ensure timely completion of work orders and develops and monitors performance tools, such as input/output control, cycle time, and late jobs to ensure work is performed within scheduling criteria and available capacity. Conceptualizes, designs, and leads activities driven by strategic business needs.
Exhibits ability to identify and resolve complex problems, communicates findings to prevent future occurrences throughout the division.
What You'll Do
- Manages the development, modification and implementation of production schedules within the approved horizon.
- Ensures schedules meet criteria for level-loading and priority maintenance.
- Resolves conflicting priorities and manufacturing problems that may impact material delivery and availability and avoids late job status.
- Develops, issues, and analyzes performance reports measuring schedule changes, performance against operation schedule dates, late jobs, and packet availability to Manufacturing.
- Generates and monitors production metrics.
- Recommends and implements action plans to improve performance against goals.
- Resolves potential problems before they affect a negative result.
- Minimizes bottlenecks in the supply chain by developing capacity plans and capacity controls.
- Determines labor/machine capacity to achieve planned production requirements.
- Determines overtime requirements and/or off load opportunities to ensure execution of planned production schedules.
- Resolves material feasibility related issues delaying production start dates.
- Acts as primary contact for operational area for scheduling, capacity, work order activity, and lead-time compression.
- Develops and monitor input/output measurements for key work centers to ensure work and performance are managed within scheduling criteria and available capacity.
- Establishes work center capacity analysis/profiles defining labor, machines, utilization, and efficiency factors.
- Determines headcount and equipment requirements to ensure timely schedule execution.
- Ensures planned start date and due date attainment for area manufactured work orders.
- Identifies, understands and solves multiple complex/challenging operational issues.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- 4+ years of experience in operations/distribution/quality
- 4+ years of experience in manufacturing, production planning/control, technical, or quality assurance
- Proficiency with Abbott operational processes
- Knowledge and understanding of business metrics
Additional information
Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:
Pay and benefits
The base pay for this position is $78,000.00 - $156,000.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
- JOB FAMILY: Supply Chain
- DIVISION: ANSC Nutrition Supply Chain
- LOCATION: United States > Columbus: Columbus Plant
Additional Locations
- WORK SHIFT: Standard
- TRAVEL: No
- MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: No
Significant Work Activities
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
About Abbott
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
About Abbott
Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people's health. We're always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.
Equal opportunity and legal notices
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In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. Pre-Employment Inquiries and Citizenship | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (eeoc.gov)
Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Military/Veteran friendly Employer, committed to employee diversity.
Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
From Abbott's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 11, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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