Production Scheduler (Manufacturing)
Empower Pharmacy, Houston, TX, United States
Position Summary
The Production Scheduler drives operational precision and throughput across Empower’s compounding and manufacturing network, ensuring reliable, compliant, and scalable production outcomes. This role owns end‑to‑end scheduling strategy, balancing demand, capacity, materials, and regulatory constraints across a complex 503A environment. Leveraging AI as a force multiplier, the Scheduler accelerates decision‑making, improves forecast accuracy, and optimizes resource allocation at speed and scale. Operating within a hyper‑growth context, this role directly impacts service levels, cost efficiency, and quality performance. Success requires P80‑P90 talent with strong strategic thinking, disciplined execution, and high learning agility to continuously refine planning systems, resolve constraints, and enable data‑driven operational excellence aligned to Empower’s mission and regulatory rigor.
Duties and Responsibilities
Production Planning
Schedule Design: Develop and continuously refine AI‑enhanced daily and weekly production schedules that optimize capacity utilization, balance demand variability, and ensure alignment with regulatory requirements, maintenance cycles, and validation timelines, driving predictable, scalable, and high‑quality output across Empower’s compounding and manufacturing operations.
Capacity Optimization: Analyze constraints across labor, equipment, and materials using advanced analytics and AI‑driven modeling to maximize throughput, minimize downtime, and dynamically adjust schedules in response to changing priorities, ensuring consistent delivery performance in a high‑growth, highly regulated production environment.
Demand Alignment: Integrate demand forecasts, order priorities, and inventory positions into intelligent scheduling frameworks, enabling proactive adjustments that reduce bottlenecks, improve service levels, and maintain operational continuity while supporting business growth and evolving customer needs.
Cross‑Functional Coordination
Stakeholder Alignment: Partner with R&D, Quality, Operations, and Materials Management to synchronize production plans, resolve conflicts, and ensure seamless execution, leveraging AI‑driven insights to align cross‑functional priorities and maintain efficient, compliant workflows across all production stages.
Resource Coordination: Orchestrate materials, equipment, and personnel availability through data‑driven planning tools, ensuring all inputs are aligned with production schedules while minimizing delays, reducing waste, and enhancing overall operational responsiveness in a fast‑paced manufacturing environment.
Communication Flow: Deliver clear, timely, and actionable scheduling updates and risk signals to stakeholders, utilizing digital tools and AI‑supported dashboards to improve transparency, accelerate decision‑making, and ensure alignment across teams operating under tight timelines and regulatory constraints.
Operational Excellence
Performance Analysis: Monitor production metrics, schedule adherence, and operational KPIs using AI‑powered analytics to identify inefficiencies, uncover trends, and drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance productivity, reduce variability, and strengthen execution discipline.
Issue Resolution: Proactively identify scheduling conflicts, supply disruptions, and production risks, applying structured problem‑solving and AI‑supported scenario planning to reallocate resources, mitigate impact, and maintain operational continuity without compromising quality or compliance.
Process Improvement: Lead ongoing optimization of scheduling processes, systems, and tools by integrating automation, predictive analytics, and best practices, enabling faster planning cycles, improved accuracy, and scalable operations aligned with Empower’s growth trajectory.
Knowledge and Skills
Advanced proficiency in production planning systems, ERP platforms, and AI‑driven analytics tools to optimize scheduling accuracy, forecasting, and resource allocation in complex manufacturing environments.
Strong understanding of capacity planning, supply chain dynamics, and process optimization methodologies, with the ability to translate data into actionable operational strategies.
Expertise in cross‑functional collaboration, stakeholder communication, and decision‑making within fast‑paced, highly regulated environments requiring precision and adaptability.
High analytical capability with experience leveraging data visualization and automation tools to drive insights, improve performance, and support continuous operational improvement.
Key Competencies
Customer Focus: Builds trust through customer‑centric solutions
Strategic AI: Guides responsible AI adoption and adaptation
Optimizes Work Processes: Drives efficiency with continuous improvement
Collaborates: Partners effectively to achieve shared goals
Resourcefulness: Secures and deploys resources efficiently
Manages Complexity: Simplifies and solves complex challenges
Ensures Accountability: Delivers on commitments with integrity
Situational Adaptability: Adjusts approach to shifting conditions
Communicates Effectively: Tailors messages to diverse audiences
Values
People: Empowering people defines who we are
Quality: Excellence in every product, every time
Service: Serving others is our highest purpose
Innovation: Advancing care through technology and discovery
Experience And Qualifications
Minimum of 5 years of experience in production scheduling, supply chain management, or operations planning within the pharmaceutical or healthcare manufacturing industry.
Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, operations management, business administration, or a related field preferred.
Exceptional organizational, communication, and time‑management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams, adapt to dynamic environments, and drive results under tight deadlines.
Strong proficiency in production planning software, enterprise resource planning systems, and advanced Microsoft Office tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) with working knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices and supply chain principles.
For 503A, a Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) or Technician Trainee certification is required, with Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt preferred; for 503B, Lean Six Sigma Green or Yellow Belt or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is highly preferred.
Benefits
Employee Benefits, Health and Wellness:
We offer comprehensive benefits to support your health, well‑being, and future, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, 401(k) matching, wellness perks, IV therapy, and compounded medications.
Physical Requirements
While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to remain in a stationary position for a significant amount of the workday and frequently use their hands and fingers to handle or feel in order to access, input, and retrieve information from the computer and other office productivity devices. Employees are regularly required to move about the office and around the corporate campus. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
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The Production Scheduler drives operational precision and throughput across Empower’s compounding and manufacturing network, ensuring reliable, compliant, and scalable production outcomes. This role owns end‑to‑end scheduling strategy, balancing demand, capacity, materials, and regulatory constraints across a complex 503A environment. Leveraging AI as a force multiplier, the Scheduler accelerates decision‑making, improves forecast accuracy, and optimizes resource allocation at speed and scale. Operating within a hyper‑growth context, this role directly impacts service levels, cost efficiency, and quality performance. Success requires P80‑P90 talent with strong strategic thinking, disciplined execution, and high learning agility to continuously refine planning systems, resolve constraints, and enable data‑driven operational excellence aligned to Empower’s mission and regulatory rigor.
Duties and Responsibilities
Production Planning
Schedule Design: Develop and continuously refine AI‑enhanced daily and weekly production schedules that optimize capacity utilization, balance demand variability, and ensure alignment with regulatory requirements, maintenance cycles, and validation timelines, driving predictable, scalable, and high‑quality output across Empower’s compounding and manufacturing operations.
Capacity Optimization: Analyze constraints across labor, equipment, and materials using advanced analytics and AI‑driven modeling to maximize throughput, minimize downtime, and dynamically adjust schedules in response to changing priorities, ensuring consistent delivery performance in a high‑growth, highly regulated production environment.
Demand Alignment: Integrate demand forecasts, order priorities, and inventory positions into intelligent scheduling frameworks, enabling proactive adjustments that reduce bottlenecks, improve service levels, and maintain operational continuity while supporting business growth and evolving customer needs.
Cross‑Functional Coordination
Stakeholder Alignment: Partner with R&D, Quality, Operations, and Materials Management to synchronize production plans, resolve conflicts, and ensure seamless execution, leveraging AI‑driven insights to align cross‑functional priorities and maintain efficient, compliant workflows across all production stages.
Resource Coordination: Orchestrate materials, equipment, and personnel availability through data‑driven planning tools, ensuring all inputs are aligned with production schedules while minimizing delays, reducing waste, and enhancing overall operational responsiveness in a fast‑paced manufacturing environment.
Communication Flow: Deliver clear, timely, and actionable scheduling updates and risk signals to stakeholders, utilizing digital tools and AI‑supported dashboards to improve transparency, accelerate decision‑making, and ensure alignment across teams operating under tight timelines and regulatory constraints.
Operational Excellence
Performance Analysis: Monitor production metrics, schedule adherence, and operational KPIs using AI‑powered analytics to identify inefficiencies, uncover trends, and drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance productivity, reduce variability, and strengthen execution discipline.
Issue Resolution: Proactively identify scheduling conflicts, supply disruptions, and production risks, applying structured problem‑solving and AI‑supported scenario planning to reallocate resources, mitigate impact, and maintain operational continuity without compromising quality or compliance.
Process Improvement: Lead ongoing optimization of scheduling processes, systems, and tools by integrating automation, predictive analytics, and best practices, enabling faster planning cycles, improved accuracy, and scalable operations aligned with Empower’s growth trajectory.
Knowledge and Skills
Advanced proficiency in production planning systems, ERP platforms, and AI‑driven analytics tools to optimize scheduling accuracy, forecasting, and resource allocation in complex manufacturing environments.
Strong understanding of capacity planning, supply chain dynamics, and process optimization methodologies, with the ability to translate data into actionable operational strategies.
Expertise in cross‑functional collaboration, stakeholder communication, and decision‑making within fast‑paced, highly regulated environments requiring precision and adaptability.
High analytical capability with experience leveraging data visualization and automation tools to drive insights, improve performance, and support continuous operational improvement.
Key Competencies
Customer Focus: Builds trust through customer‑centric solutions
Strategic AI: Guides responsible AI adoption and adaptation
Optimizes Work Processes: Drives efficiency with continuous improvement
Collaborates: Partners effectively to achieve shared goals
Resourcefulness: Secures and deploys resources efficiently
Manages Complexity: Simplifies and solves complex challenges
Ensures Accountability: Delivers on commitments with integrity
Situational Adaptability: Adjusts approach to shifting conditions
Communicates Effectively: Tailors messages to diverse audiences
Values
People: Empowering people defines who we are
Quality: Excellence in every product, every time
Service: Serving others is our highest purpose
Innovation: Advancing care through technology and discovery
Experience And Qualifications
Minimum of 5 years of experience in production scheduling, supply chain management, or operations planning within the pharmaceutical or healthcare manufacturing industry.
Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, operations management, business administration, or a related field preferred.
Exceptional organizational, communication, and time‑management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams, adapt to dynamic environments, and drive results under tight deadlines.
Strong proficiency in production planning software, enterprise resource planning systems, and advanced Microsoft Office tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) with working knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices and supply chain principles.
For 503A, a Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) or Technician Trainee certification is required, with Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt preferred; for 503B, Lean Six Sigma Green or Yellow Belt or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is highly preferred.
Benefits
Employee Benefits, Health and Wellness:
We offer comprehensive benefits to support your health, well‑being, and future, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, 401(k) matching, wellness perks, IV therapy, and compounded medications.
Physical Requirements
While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to remain in a stationary position for a significant amount of the workday and frequently use their hands and fingers to handle or feel in order to access, input, and retrieve information from the computer and other office productivity devices. Employees are regularly required to move about the office and around the corporate campus. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
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