Production Planner

Do you instinctively think a few steps ahead? Do you enjoy analyzing, forecasting, and finding the best balance between customer needs and operational realities?

As a production planner, you’ll be at the heart of our operational decisions. Your role: to translate demand and our business priorities into a realistic, efficient, and motivating production plan for the teams.

In a rapidly growing manufacturing environment where priorities shift quickly, you’ll need to anticipate needs and constraints, adjust the plan as circumstances change, and rally the various stakeholders around our priorities. Your judgment, agility, and ability to see the big picture will have a direct impact on our ability to deliver to our customers and support our growth.

In this position, you will have the opportunity to :

• Develop and maintain the production plan for finished and semi-finished products by balancing customer needs, equipment capacity, workforce availability, materials, and inventory levels
• Anticipate production needs and constraints to establish planning strategies that optimize capacity, smooth out production, and provide clear visibility to the various teams
• Establish and adjust production priorities in collaboration with customer service and operations to meet our customer commitments and respond effectively to changes
• Plan operations while taking into account capacity constraints, shared peripheral equipment, setup times, critical resources, and scheduled maintenance shutdowns
• Work closely with procurement, production, and engineering to incorporate their realities and constraints into the production plan, particularly for products under development
• Monitor the plan’s progress daily, analyze variances, and promptly communicate potential impacts on production schedules and delivery times while proposing alternative scenarios
• Ensure the reliability of data and planning parameters in the manufacturing system, analyze MRP messages, and liaise with stakeholders as needed
• Analyze performance metrics, explain variances, and help implement corrective actions and improvements to optimize planning and operational performance

With the following skills and qualities, you'll be successful in this role:

• 8 to 10 years of experience in multi-constraint planning, ideally in a manufacturing environment
• College or university education in planning, procurement, operations management, or any other relevant field
• Good understanding of the principles of manufacturing planning, capacity, inventory, and MRP
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (intermediate level)
• Excellent analytical and synthesis skills, with the ability to take a step back and anticipate the impacts of a decision
• Leadership and influence to communicate priorities, rally stakeholders, and drive decisions forward
• Strong ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt quickly when reality disrupts the plan
• Autonomy, initiative, and sound judgment to propose solutions and take action
• A collaborative approach, tact, and diplomacy when interacting with different teams
• Strong customer focus and a commitment to meeting commitments

Benefits designed to take you far!

• A flexibility program tailored to your needs (flextime, compressed work schedule, telecommuting and more)
• Group insurance with plans that fit your reality
• An RRSP with employer contributions to keep your finances on track
• An Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP) and access to a telemedicine service for a helping hand when needed
• A $2,000 referral bonus to help you find colleagues with a heart and soul just like you!

And even more!

• Social activities to connect with your colleagues
• Development support to advance your career
• Discounts on Kimpex products to fuel your passion for motorsports