The posting
What you will do
We’re hiring a Production Scheduler to manage and optimize production schedules within a manufacturing environment, ensuring customer demand is met while balancing plant capacity, inventory, and operational priorities. This role works closely with Operations, Customer Service, Inventory Control, Receiving, Shipping, and plant leadership and serves as a key backup to the Production Control Supervisor.
This position plays an important role in connecting customer requirements with plant execution, helping ensure the right products are produced and shipped at the right time while maintaining appropriate inventory levels and plant efficiency.
What Does Success Look Like (How you will do it)
- Develop, maintain, and communicate daily, weekly, and monthly production schedules based on customer demand, inventory requirements, and plant capacity.
- Monitor production performance and adjust schedules to address changing priorities, material constraints, capacity limitations, and customer needs.
- Manage finished goods inventory levels and analyze demand and inventory trends to maintain target stock levels while minimizing excess inventory.
- Track customer order fill rates, schedule attainment, and on-time shipment performance, identifying and addressing gaps as needed.
- Coordinate across Operations, Customer Service, Inventory Control, Receiving, and Shipping to resolve scheduling, inventory, and fulfillment issues.
- Generate and analyze production, inventory, and shipment reporting, identify process improvement opportunities, and provide backup leadership support to the Production Control Supervisor.
What we look for
Required
- Demonstrated experience developing and managing production schedules in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong knowledge of production planning, capacity planning, inventory management, and customer order fulfillment.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including formulas, PivotTables, reporting, data analysis, and trend analysis.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills with the ability to manage changing priorities and collaborate across multiple plant functions.
Preferred
- Experience with ERP/manufacturing planning systems, preferably QAD or a similar system.
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, or a related field and/or previous leadership or cross-functional project experience.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future; Clarios will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visas for this opportunity.
St. Joseph - Distribution Center
Our St. Joseph, Missouri distribution center charges, packages, and ships the batteries used in cars, boats, motorcycles, and heavy-duty trucks. We opened in 2000, now employ more than 280 people and operate six days per week. We are actively involved in our local community and give back through The United Way, Camp Quality, Second Harvest Food Bank and Habitat for Humanity.
What you get:
- Medical, dental and vision care coverage and a 401(k) savings plan with company matching – all starting on date of hire
- Tuition reimbursement, perks, and discounts
- Parental and caregiver leave programs
- All the usual benefits such as paid time off, flexible spending, short-and long-term disability, basic life insurance, business travel insurance, and Employee Assistance Program
- Global market strength and worldwide market share leadership
- HQ location earns LEED certification for sustainability plus a full-service cafeteria and workout facility
- Clarios has been recognized as one of 2026's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere. This prestigious recognition marks the fourth consecutive year Clarios has received this distinction.
Who we are: Clarios is the force behind the world’s most recognizable car battery brands, powering vehicles from leading automakers like Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Honda, and Nissan. With 18,000 employees worldwide, we develop, manufacture, and distribute energy storage solutions while recovering, recycling, and reusing up to 99% of battery materials—setting the standard for sustainability in our industry. At Clarios, we’re not just making batteries; we’re shaping the future of sustainable transportation. Join our mission to innovate, push boundaries, and make a real impact. Discover your potential at Clarios—where your power meets endless possibilities.
Veterans/Military Spouses: We value the leadership, adaptability, and technical expertise developed through military service. At Clarios, those capabilities thrive in an environment built on grit, ingenuity, and passion—where you can grow your career while helping to power progress worldwide. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to protected characteristics.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please apply. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is key to challenging the status quo. Therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, status as a protected veteran or other protected characteristics protected by law. As a federal contractor, we are committed to not discriminating against any applicant or employee based on these protected statuses. We will also take affirmative action to ensure equal employment opportunities. Please let us know if you require accommodations during the interview process by emailing [email protected]. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and value diversity in our teams in terms of work experience, area of expertise, and all characteristics protected by laws in the countries where we operate. For more information on our commitment to sustainability, diversity, and equal opportunity, please read our latest report. We want you to know your rights because EEO is the law.
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