Master Production Scheduler

Echo Lake Foods is a leading manufacturer of ready-to-eat egg products and breakfast foods, including waffles, pancakes, French toast, scrambled eggs, omelets, and egg patties, serving major retail, foodservice, and national restaurant customers across the United States. Founded in 1941 and headquartered in Burlington, Wisconsin, the company operates multiple production facilities throughout the Midwest and has built a strong reputation for quality, innovation, and customer partnerships.

In 2025, Echo Lake Foods was acquired by Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., the largest producer and distributor of fresh shell eggs in the United States, marking an exciting new chapter of growth. This partnership strengthens our resources, expands our capabilities, and supports continued investment in our people, facilities, and products. Creating new opportunities for employees to grow their careers within a stable and expanding organization.

We are seeking a detail-oriented and highly organized Master Production Scheduler to lead the coordination and optimization of egg processing and toast production, inventory, and distribution schedules. This key role ensures that demand is met efficiently while maintaining the highest standards of product quality, food safety, and operational performance.

The Master Production Scheduler acts as the central hub between production, procurement, logistics, and sales teams-balancing egg supply and demand in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday. Weekend work may be required as needed.

Essential Functions

• Develop and manage daily, weekly, and monthly egg and toast production schedules based on sales forecasts, inventory levels, and capacity constraints.
• Collaborate with Operations, Sales and Procurement teams to align resources and timelines.
• Monitor and adjust schedules to account for real-time production variances, equipment downtime, or supply chain disruptions.
• Work closely with procurement to ensure availability of material and packaging.
• Coordinate internal shipments with logistics to meet customer delivery requirements and minimize storage times.
• Maintain accurate records of inventory, yields, and schedule adherence.
• Analyze production data to identify trends, inefficiencies, and opportunities for process improvement.
• Track and monitor daily liquid egg supply- identify risks, challenges and opportunities.
• Ensure compliance with food safety, quality, and customer expectations

Core Competencies

• Problem Solving
• Customer Focus
• Budget and Cost Control
• Communication Proficiency
• Managing for Results

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described herein are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to work independently as well as with and around others. There is frequent verbal and face-to-face contact. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Sensory and Physical Demands

The sensory and physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to engage their sensory functions. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Although this job is primarily sedentary and requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time, employees may be regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. Occasionally employees may be required to bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, lift, carry, pull, push and/or move objects weighing up to 20 pounds.

Intellectual Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to read, write, and interpret a variety of instructions furnished in but limited to written, oral, visual, diagram, or schedule form. Employees will work under significant time constraints, apply memorization, analysis, apply perception/comprehension skills, spontaneous thought, judgment, and manage time in completing assignments. The employee is required to use decision-making skills, practically solve problems and to deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists, communicate effectively, articulate ideas, respond to inquiries, handle conflict situations, perform mathematical calculations reasonably necessary to satisfactorily perform job duties, and to make decisions based on department and organizational goals.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, military service, protected veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.