Maintenance Excellence Manager

IPEX Group of Companies; Montreal; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturer of plastic piping systems is seeking a Production Planner to optimize production schedules in their Montreal facility. The ideal candidate has a minimum of 3 years of experience in production planning, strong Excel skills, and preferably SAP scheduling experience. This role involves daily coordination with various departments to ensure production readiness and accuracy in planning records.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years experience as a production planner or scheduler.
• Strong excel skills required.
• SAP scheduling experience would be considered an asset.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain daily production schedule.
• Coordinate with teams to ensure production readiness.
• Maintain master data in the planning system.

Skills

Production planning

Communication

Excel

SAP scheduling

Education

Post-Secondary Education

APICS (CPIM)

Job description

Overview

IPEX is one of the North American leading providers of advanced plastic piping systems. Our mission is to shape a better tomorrow by connecting people with water and energy.

This role is based in our Bermondsey Plant in Toronto, Ontario and reports to the Production Manager. We currently have an exciting opportunity as a Production Planner.

Do not miss the opportunity to join a diverse group of people-centric professionals, thought leaders and rapid thinkers, entrepreneurs in spirit and status quo-fighters!

Job Summary

We are currently looking for a Production Planner to create and maintain a finite weekly schedule for a production facility with injection moulding machines. The individual will work with different departments to ensure everything is ready for production.

Principal Responsibilities

• Create and maintain production schedule daily. Review and discuss in morning meetings.
• Generate production schedule daily after back flush from the schedulers workbench into machines based on MES history. Work with Mould and Setup department to ensure everything is ready for production, seek to reduce setups, priority flag items and optimize schedule.
• Coordinate with plant production teams to keep them informed with changes to the schedule, and provide daily feedback on schedule attainment.
• Maintain master data in our planning system ensuring planning records are up to date and accurate.
• Respond to inquiries from sales, customer service, and manufacturing in a timely manner.
• Leverage business intelligence tools and provide weekly/monthly reporting to the Plant Manager.
• Calculate inventory requirements for WIP on a daily basis.
• Coordinate with purchaser to prioritize back order and ensure availability of raw materials, components and packaging.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 3 years experience as a production planner or production scheduler
• Post-Secondary Education, APICS (CPIM) or equivalent experience in production planning
• Strong excel skills required.
• SAP scheduling experience would be considered an asset.