Production Planner

Job title: Production Planner

Job description: ​​

Position Title: Production Planner

Position Type: Regular – Full-Time ​

Position Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; Florenceville-Bristol, New Brunswick

Grade: Grade 04

Requisition ID: 24718

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COMPANY OVERVIEW:

At McCain Foods, we know the importance that food plays in people’s lives – the power it has to uplift and bring people, families, businesses and communities together. Guided by our purpose to bring enjoyment to people’s lives through great tasting food, we believe that working together with our teams, business and community partners will bring sustainable growth and positive change – today, tomorrow and for generations to come.

As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in over 160 countries and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. Our product quality, people and customer dedication help us achieve global sales in excess of CDN $10 billion. Through our investment and innovation, we continue to be a global leader in prepared potato products, including our famous French Fries and appetizers.

SUMMARY:

McCain Foods has an opportunity for a Production Planner within our North American Supply Planning group.

The Supply Planner is responsible for creating a detailed production plan that takes into account maintaining target inventory levels and meeting service expectations. This position will communicate the detailed production plan to key stakeholders, enable and maintain effective planning processes, manage performance against key supply chain performance indicators, serve as project member for various projects, and aid in the process of slow moving, aged, obsolete, dilution and discontinued skus. The Production Planner interacts with Customer Solutions, Demand Planning, Operations, Quality Control, Accounting, Agriculture, Deployment, Marketing, Procurement and other Production Planners.

This role reports to the Senior Manager, Potato Product Supply NA and can be located in our Florenceville-Bristol, NB office, Toronto office or Oakbrook Il office.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Creates a production schedule that satisfies customer demand with optimal inventory levels and resource utilization. Ensure that schedule can be used for detailed material and capacity planning as well as financial planning.
• Accountable to achieve service level targets, help ensure balanced inventory across the network.
• Establish and maintain planning rules for supply resources based on business requirements, source capabilities, EOQ (Efficient Order Quantities), and alignment with operations strategies, ensuring least-landed costs are met.
• Ensure that all schedules are based on demonstrated manufacturing capability, structural constraints, available capacity and planned exception activity driving downstream planning in Agriculture, Purchasing, and Transportation & Warehousing.
• Anticipate supply problems and implement resolution working jointly with the plants and integrated supply chain teams.
• Lead weekly scheduling meeting for assigned plants for the purpose of identifying, negotiating and resolving conflicts with respect to material and capacity availability and meeting service levels.
• Assess risks and gaps within the schedule and develop resolution or communicate appropriately the risks and recovery within the organization.
• Ensures accuracy of scheduling parameters such as, manufacturing calendar, lot sizes, safety stocks, delivery times and sequencing rules for all assigned items.
• Monitor, measure, and improve performance of assigned plant’s schedule adherence and attainment. Provide constant assessment of production needs and revise schedule based on actual production versus scheduled.
• Provide accurate and timely inventory or shortage information to Customer Service, Supply Planning, and Deployment.
• Maintain accurate inventories of hold product and assist in disposition within policy guidelines.
• Identify and assist in resolving slow-moving, aged, obsolete and discontinued finished goods items at all assigned warehouse locations.
• Conduct special assignments and lead cross-functional teams.
• Other projects/duties as assigned or needed.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Preferred for the ideal candidate:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Logistics, Business, Supply Chain, Operations Management or related discipline
• APICS certification preferred
• 1 – 5 years of supply chain experience preferred
• Experience in food industry preferred
• Experience with SAP – ECC, APO/SCM preferred
• Project Management experience preferred

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

• Excellent computer skills preferred (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc)
• Must have exceptional analytical skills and be able to work with complex data
• Excellent problem solving, organization and planning skills
• Strong drive for results
• Effective communication skills (both oral and written) with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

The health and safety of McCain employees and their families has been our number one priority since the start of COVID-19 pandemic. With vaccination restrictions easing across the globe we do not currently require employees to be vaccinated, but we reserve the right to change this mandate in line with health guidance and regulations in each country.

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Job Family: Supply Chain & Logistics

Division: NA Supply Chain

Department: ​Potato Product Supply NA ​

Location(s): CA – Canada : Ontario : Toronto || CA – Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol

Company: McCain Foods (Canada)

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