Production Planning Specialist

Kontron Canada is seeking a Production Planning Specialist to join her experienced and dynamic team.

To get a taste of the work environment at Kontron Canada, watch the following video in French: https://youtu.be/YQQIQ_8R_yo

AN OVERVIEW OF THE CHALLENGES AHEAD:

The Production Planning Specialist is responsible for managing and coordinating planning activities for electronic products. The main responsibilities include:

• Coordinating the production plan to define the overall level of manufacturing and other activities to meet the expected sales objectives;
• Meticulously maintaining and optimizing planning parameters, including lead times, safety stocks, minimum quantities, and scrap rates;
• Validating the accuracy of the manufacturing control system parameters to meet the performance levels specified in the operations management plan;
• Rigorously following the proper execution of transactions to ensure the correct scheduling of manufacturing priorities;
• Ensuring that feedback from the production floor on changes or delays is always considered in the system;
• Working with warehousing to understand the capacity and storage constraints of finished product inventories. Collaborating with manufacturing and engineering to understand capacity limitations and planning options;
• Ensuring the availability of components and achieving stock-related performance measures. Establishing the strategy and desired stock levels for finished products and WIP;
• Developing, executing and maintaining the tools and techniques necessary to assess the impact of schedule changes;
• Participating in and leading meetings such as Pre-SOP (sales and operations).
• Planning demand based on the product range and providing accurate commitment dates to the customer service team for a wide range of products;
• And finally, improving business processes related to production planning, inventory management and forecasting.

YOU WILL IMPRESS US IF YOU HAVE:

• Education: College diploma (DEC) or equivalent, a bachelor's degree in operations management is an asset;
• Experience: Ideally 3 to 7 years of experience in scheduling with a proven track record of successfully implementing and operationalizing master schedules;
• Knowledge: Windows, Word, Excel (advanced) and SAP;
• Languages: French, functional English to respond to international clients and certain service providers.

HOW ABOUT AN EXCEPTIONAL WORK ENVIRONMENT INCLUDING:

• A competitive salary;
• A generous vacation policy and a large number of personal days;
• An advantageous collective insurance program, including telemedecine;
• A collective RRSP program in which Kontron Canada contributes;
• Good balance between work-family-personal life, including working from home if desired;
• Social and sports activities, including access to a volleyball and soccer field;
• Various training for your professional development;
• A stimulating career path in various sectors of activity;
• Dedicated days for individual and team innovation projects;
• A modern facility with state of the art equipment;
• And much more…

By submitting a resume, the candidate acknowledges that Kontron will have access to the personal information contained therein and that Kontron may share this personal information in accordance with the Policy regarding the management of personal information published at https://www.kontron.com/en/terms-and-conditions for the purposes of evaluating his(her) application.