Job Description
Labor Scheduler
Location: Kiel, WI
Company: Land O'Lakes
Pay: $31.25 per hour
Our growth relies on our extraordinary talent. Unlock your greatest potential at Land O'Lakes by continuing to make a difference, driving results, and growing your career.
The Labor Scheduler is a key member of the operations team, responsible for developing and maintaining a comprehensive 24/7, year-round staffing schedule for union hourly production employees across the entire facility. In addition to scheduling responsibilities, this role serves as an office administrator, providing essential support through a variety of plant-related administrative tasks.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Coordinates team training, vacation setting, and attendance, adhering to best practices and ensuring compliance within the site Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).
- Manages the schedule end-to-end change process.
- Develops weekly operations staffing schedule in compliance with best practices and CBA.
- Creates and posts holistic operations staffing schedule. Each team member may have primary responsibility for development of a function's schedule that is incorporated into a holistic schedule posted for all.
- Executes formal communication processes among planning and operations departments to ensure valid and complete schedule.
- Participates and/or drives any Continuous Improvement initiatives.
Administrative Support Duties:
- Answer phones and greet guests at the front door as needed.
- Order uniforms for staff.
- Order lunches for events and orientations.
- Maintain internal communications board.
- Purchasing and maintaining inventory of office supplies.
- Manage administrative duties related to plant safety initiatives.
- Send and receive facility mail.
- Provide administrative support to the Site Director.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Required Experience and Knowledge
- High School Diploma required and Associate Degree preferred.
- Excel experience required.
- Strong computer and organizational skills.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision.
- 3-5 years of manufacturing experience.
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; climb up and down stairs and ladders; talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds.
Schedule
Core hours are Monday-Friday with a start time varying between 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. Weekends and overtime as needed.
About Land O'Lakes, Inc.
Join us and be part of a Fortune 250, farmer- and member-owned cooperative that is reimagining the business of food. We have been named a Top Workplace by Indeed and LinkedIn, and to the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.
We provide a broad portfolio of benefits to keep you and your family at your best. Land O'Lakes is Where Your Future Takes Root.
Land O'Lakes and our global entities support diversity in employment practices.
Neither Land O'Lakes, nor its affiliates or search firms, will ever contact you and ask for confidential information over the phone or in email. If you receive a call or email like this, please do not provide the information being requested.
If you need to submit a reasonable accommodation request to complete the employment application process, please call the HR Solution Center at 844-LOL-HR4U (844-565-4748) M-F 8:00am-4:30pm CT.
Labor Scheduler
Location: Kiel, WI
Company: Land O'Lakes
Pay: $31.25 per hour
Our growth relies on our extraordinary talent. Unlock your greatest potential at Land O'Lakes by continuing to make a difference, driving results, and growing your career.
The Labor Scheduler is a key member of the operations team, responsible for developing and maintaining a comprehensive 24/7, year-round staffing schedule for union hourly production employees across the entire facility. In addition to scheduling responsibilities, this role serves as an office administrator, providing essential support through a variety of plant-related administrative tasks.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Coordinates team training, vacation setting, and attendance, adhering to best practices and ensuring compliance within the site Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).
- Manages the schedule end-to-end change process.
- Develops weekly operations staffing schedule in compliance with best practices and CBA.
- Creates and posts holistic operations staffing schedule. Each team member may have primary responsibility for development of a function's schedule that is incorporated into a holistic schedule posted for all.
- Executes formal communication processes among planning and operations departments to ensure valid and complete schedule.
- Participates and/or drives any Continuous Improvement initiatives.
Administrative Support Duties:
- Answer phones and greet guests at the front door as needed.
- Order uniforms for staff.
- Order lunches for events and orientations.
- Maintain internal communications board.
- Purchasing and maintaining inventory of office supplies.
- Manage administrative duties related to plant safety initiatives.
- Send and receive facility mail.
- Provide administrative support to the Site Director.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Required Experience and Knowledge
- High School Diploma required and Associate Degree preferred.
- Excel experience required.
- Strong computer and organizational skills.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision.
- 3-5 years of manufacturing experience.
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; climb up and down stairs and ladders; talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds.
Schedule
Core hours are Monday-Friday with a start time varying between 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. Weekends and overtime as needed.
About Land O'Lakes, Inc.
Join us and be part of a Fortune 250, farmer- and member-owned cooperative that is reimagining the business of food. We have been named a Top Workplace by Indeed and LinkedIn, and to the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.
We provide a broad portfolio of benefits to keep you and your family at your best. Land O'Lakes is Where Your Future Takes Root.
Land O'Lakes and our global entities support diversity in employment practices.
Neither Land O'Lakes, nor its affiliates or search firms, will ever contact you and ask for confidential information over the phone or in email. If you receive a call or email like this, please do not provide the information being requested.
If you need to submit a reasonable accommodation request to complete the employment application process, please call the HR Solution Center at 844-LOL-HR4U (844-565-4748) M-F 8:00am-4:30pm CT.
About Land O'Lakes
A career at Land O’Lakes means working at the heart of the dynamic agriculture and food industries—and helping to solve some of the world’s greatest food challenges. If you know us as “the butter company,” you may be surprised to discover that we’re behind many trusted brands, including Purina®, WinField™ United, Kozy Shack®, Vermont Creamery®, and Philia™, among others. We’re #232 on the Fortune 500 list, with 8,000+ employees doing business in all 50 U.S. states and 50 countries around the world.
From crop inputs that grow into the grain that animals eat, to a final product on a store shelf, Land O’Lakes has a farmer-to-fork view. Pair this with our farmer ownership, and we're uniquely qualified to fulfill our purpose of Feeding Human Progress around the world, while always delivering on our responsibility to our owners. Just as we’ve been doing for nearly 100 years.
Explore a career with Land O’Lakes, and discover why Forbes, Indeed, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and many others have placed us on their best places to work lists.