Production Scheduler (Manufacturing)

Empower Pharmacy is a visionary healthcare company dedicated to making quality, affordable medication accessible to millions of patients nationwide. As the most advanced 503A compounding pharmacy and FDA-registered 503B outsourcing facility serving the functional medicine markets, we are proud to be recognized as one of Houston’s fastest-growing private companies and ranked #116 in Healthcare & Medical on the Inc. 5000 List for 2025.

Our strength lies in four core values—People, Quality, Service, and Innovation. Guided by these principles, we deliver a uniquely integrated approach to healthcare through vertical supply chain integration, advanced technology, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. From manufacturing to distribution to quality control, our teams work collaboratively to push boundaries, improve patient outcomes, and redefine medication accessibility.

At Empower, joining our team means more than starting a new job, it means becoming part of a mission to transform healthcare. We empower our employees to innovate, grow, and make a meaningful impact every day. Here, your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and your contributions are celebrated.

If you thrive in a fast-paced, transformative environment where innovation meets purpose, Empower Pharmacy is the place for you. Let’s revolutionize healthcare together.

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 high-growth environment, this role directly impacts service levels, cost efficiency, and quality performance.

Responsibilities:

Production Planning

• Schedule Design: Develop and refine daily and weekly production schedules that optimize capacity utilization, balance demand variability, and align with regulatory requirements, maintenance cycles, and validation timelines.
• Capacity Optimization: Analyze constraints across labor, equipment, and materials to maximize throughput, minimize downtime, and adjust schedules in response to changing priorities.
• Demand Alignment: Integrate demand forecasts, order priorities, and inventory positions into scheduling plans to reduce bottlenecks, improve service levels, and maintain operational continuity.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Stakeholder Alignment: Partner with R&D, Quality, Operations, and Materials Management to synchronize production plans, resolve conflicts, and ensure seamless execution.
• Resource Coordination: Coordinate materials, equipment, and personnel availability to ensure production inputs align with schedules while minimizing delays and waste.
• Communication Flow: Deliver clear, timely, and actionable scheduling updates and risk signals to stakeholders to support transparency and decision-making.

Operational Excellence

• Performance Analysis: Monitor production metrics, schedule adherence, and operational KPIs to identify inefficiencies, uncover trends, and support continuous improvement.
• Issue Resolution: Proactively identify scheduling conflicts, supply disruptions, and production risks, applying structured problem-solving to mitigate impact.
• Process Improvement: Optimize scheduling processes, systems, and tools by integrating automation, analytics, and best practices to improve accuracy and scalability.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Advanced proficiency in production planning systems, ERP platforms, and analytics tools.
• Strong understanding of capacity planning, supply chain dynamics, and process optimization methodologies.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder communication, and decision-making skills.
• Analytical capability with experience using data visualization and automation tools to improve performance.

Experience and Qualifications: 

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in production scheduling, supply chain management, or operations planning within pharmaceutical or healthcare manufacturing.
• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Business Administration, or a related field preferred.
• Strong organizational, communication, and time-management skills with the ability to drive results under tight deadlines.
• Proficiency in production planning software, ERP systems, and Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Working knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices and supply chain principles.
• For 503A, Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) or Technician Trainee certification required; Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt preferred.
• For 503B, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification highly preferred.

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

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. Learn more: https://careers.empowerpharmacy.com/benefits/

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.