Production Planner/Scheduler

We are a North American Leader in the Fabrication sectors with operations across Canada, and the USA. We are a fully-integrated supplier of manufacturing and engineering services providing steel components and complex, high value-added assemblies for the agricultural, construction, mining, energy, heavy truck and industrial sectors.

The role of the Production Planner & Scheduler is to successfully meet the facility and corporate goals & objectives, while managing all Production Planning & Scheduling within the facility. The Production Planner & Scheduler performs under general supervision, all functions related to coordinating daily production requirements with regard to planning and scheduling of production

The Production Planner & Scheduler will report to the Materials Manager.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Create, monitor, analyze, plan and execute daily production schedules for Production parts in accordance with the standard best practices.

- Setup and modification of new/existing parts and routing in CMS.

- Participate and co-ordinate Daily Cycle Counting of Inventory and periodical Physical Inventory.

- Ensuring right consumption of raw material as per the BOM and accountable for raw material consumption.

- Coordinate parts changes with Sales, Engineering, Production, Accounting and Materials.

- Responsible to ensure no parts shortages, obsolescence or excess inventory.

- Schedule the production process and departmental activities relating to material, employee, and equipment availability.

- Use CMS to generate reports and schedules.

· Create and publish Weekly Customer Releases and delivery reports.

· Create and publish Weekly reports of Material Yield, Earned hours, Capacity planning and down time hours for all production departments.

· Early communication of parts/material shortages and take next steps actions.

· Develop daily and weekly production status reports for Materials Manager.

· Coordinate with production, purchasing and finance teams to develop and maintain scheduling parameters.

· Order and stock adequate materials to avoid any shortages.

· Any other related duties as assigned by Materials Manager /Management.

Characteristics

· Hands-On, Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves personality

· Bias for action – reacts promptly to issues with appropriate actions/responses

· Ability to thrive in a “Lean and Mean” resource conscious organization

· Capable of managing multiple challenging assignments concurrently; moving swiftly and decisively, but collaboratively and effectively with others

· Effective problem solver

· Perceptive, responsible and accountable

· Team player

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

· Requires a bachelor’s degree / diploma in Materials Management or equivalent work experience.

· Requires a minimum of 5 to 7 years of relevant experience in materials planning, scheduling, forecasting, logistics, supply chain ideally within a low volume/high mix manufacturing environment.

· Strong analytical and mathematical skills.

· Strong ERP/MRP systems knowledge, prior experience with CMS an asset.

· Experience with lean concepts/tools such as Kanban, JIT and Kaizen.

· Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively work with many levels and types of people.

· Good written, oral and presentation skills.

· Problem solving & decision-making skills.

· CMS working knowledge is preferred. ERP & MRP knowledge required and Computer proficiency required in Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

- 401(k)

- Dental insurance

- Health insurance

- Paid time off

- Vision insurance

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Work Location: In person