Production Planner

Hilton Foods; Brantford; On-site; CAD 55,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Hilton Foods Canada is seeking a Production Planner to manage site production planning, ensuring customer service levels, production and stock movements, and cost control. Responsibilities include long- and short-horizon planning, material availability checks, and cross-functional collaboration within planning teams.

You will use Quintiq, ERP systems, and established procedures to create executable plans, optimize material usage, and communicate planning data across departments.

Qualifications

• Experience in planning and production scheduling within manufacturing.
• Knowledge of ERP systems.
• Experience in manufacturing, supply chain, retail sector.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain the long horizon production plan.
• Create and maintain the short horizon production plan (day +0 and day +1).
• Check on the parameters and KPI;s in Macro Planner and Scheduler.
• Secures the plans are executable in the given production time.
• Secures all materials are available in time and quantity.
• Check on primal availability.
• Providing suggestions to create better production plans and keeping up to date.
• Part of a positive working environment.
• Providing clear data from sales performance/production results to Planning manager.
• Stock management of retail, primal and dry goods.
• Highlights potential issues to Planning manager/management.
• Checks production progress during day and week.
• Reports to the Planning manager.
• Create and maintain a production planning by using the Quintiq application, ERP and procedures.
• Ability to reschedule the daily production planning to for example other lines, other sequencing.
• Signalling function from forecast data processing through to daily production plan including communication of planning data and issues to all relevant departments.
• Based on the most recent updated sales forecast produce and distribute daily production plans so that all daily sales orders are fulfilled on time, efficient production and logistics and required customer service level is achieved.
• Survey and communicate detailed weekly planned needs for primal, packaging, production capacities and component usage by line and shift.
• Be involved in stock control, procurement and logistics at site. Proactively identify stock shortages, communicating and resolving the issues and advising Planning manager in regarding of purchasing and/or other departments of potential service issues.
• Ensure efficient planning of production and timely communication of planning data to relevant departments.
• Participates in meetings
• Participates in the roster to execute daily operation tasks
• Tracking production results/capacities
• Maintain and report, serv levels, upgrades, KPI’s
• Able to cover targeted tasks of other planning team members in case of absence
• Cross trained in Material/Primal planning role.

Skills

Planning experience

Manufacturing experience

Supply chain experience

Retail sector experience

ERP systems experience

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Job Title: Production Planner

Salary Range: CAD$54,600– CAD$68,250

Working Type: On-Site

PURPOSE OF ROLE

To manage all aspects of the production planning at site in order to achieve the required Hilton standards of customer service level, production and stock movements, cost control and material optimization. To be a participant and team player within the Planning team, To be able to cross function within the Planning team, on the areas like forecasting and material planning

Key Accountabilities

Main activities of the business processes

• Create and maintain the long horizon production plan
• Create and maintain the short horizon production plan (day +0 and day +1)
• Check on the parameters and KPI;s in Macro Planner and Scheduler
• Secures the plans are executable in the given production time
• Secures all materials are available in time and quantity
• Check on primal availability

Other Activities, Responsibilities And Tasks

• Providing suggestions to create better production plans and keeping up to date
• Part of a positive working environment
• Providing clear data from sales performance/production results to Planning manager
• Stock management of retail, primal and dry good
• Highlights potential issues to Planning manager/management
• Checks production progress during day and week
• Reports to the Planning manager
• Create and maintain a production planning by using the Quintiq application, ERP and procedures
• Ability to reschedule the daily production planning to for example other lines, other sequencing
• Signalling function from forecast data processing through to daily production plan including communication of planning data and issues to all relevant departments
• Based on the most recent updated sales forecast produce and distribute daily production plans so that all daily sales orders are fulfilled on time, efficient production and logistics and required customer service level is achieved. Survey and communicate detailed weekly planned needs for primal, packaging, production capacities and component usage by line and shift
• Be involved in stock control, procurement and logistics at site. Proactively identify stock shortages, communicating and resolving the issues and advising Planning manager in regarding of purchasing and/or other departments of potential service issues.
• Ensure efficient planning of production and timely communication of planning data to relevant departments.
• Participates in meetings
• Participates in the roster to execute daily operation tasks
• Tracking production results/capacities
• Maintain and report, serv levels, upgrades, KPI’s
• Able to cover targeted tasks of other planning team members in case of absence
• Cross trained in Material/Primal planning role.

Key Experience, Knowledge & Skills

• Ability and proven experience in Planning
• Experience in manufacturing, supply chain, retail sector
• Experience with ERP systems

Hilton Foods Canada is committed to building a culture of diversity and inclusion and are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees. At Hilton Foods Canada, we welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. If you require an accommodation during the recruitment process, please advise the HR representative. All requests for an accommodation and the accommodation measures will be handled in a confidential manner at all times.