Regional Production Planner
About The Position
The Regional Production Planner is responsible for production planning across multiple sites in Canada and the United States. The role requires a complete understanding of the company’s supply and demand dynamics, marketing and sales activities, manufacturing plants and capabilities, and inbound raw-material strategy and supply situation. The planner develops and implements strategies to satisfy existing customer demand and target-market opportunities at the lowest total production and transportation cost. The role analyzes plant manufacturing costs and capacities alongside transportation costs and customer demand, and contributes to the Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) process. It works closely with sales, marketing, manufacturing facilities, and other internal groups to support plan execution. The position drives plant-network optimization through system implementation and process development, supports site-level improvements to production scheduling, and helps implement and maximize SAP production planning modules and related processes. It also develops continuous-improvement metrics, participates in target-market teams, and builds relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 3 years of experience in production planning, preferably involving bulk material.
- Strong computer skills.
- Travel of 20–25%, spread equally over the calendar year.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with strategic planning of multi-plant production systems and distribution networks.
- Lean Manufacturing experience.
- SAP experience.
Responsibilities
- Develop and drive implementation of strategies that satisfy existing customer demand and target-market opportunities at the lowest total production and transportation cost.
- Analyze plant-versus-plant manufacturing costs and capacities, point-to-point transportation costs, and current and future customer demand as part of network optimization.
- Participate in the ongoing Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) process.
- Liaise and cooperate closely with industry sales and marketing groups and manufacturing facilities.
- Communicate the support needed from internal groups to assure plan execution across functions.
- Align customer demand with available production through the SOP process on daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly timeframes.
- Drive plant-network optimization through system implementation and process development.
- Act as a catalyst for site-level improvements to daily production scheduling systems and processes.
- Play a key role in implementing and maximizing SAP production planning (PP) modules and associated processes.
- Develop metrics to drive continuous improvement in network optimization.
- Participate actively in the company’s target-market teams.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Organize and act on large amounts of information with strong attention to detail.
Benefits
- Annual bonus plan.
- Paid holidays and vacation time.
- Group medical and pharmacy insurance options with company-funded health care spending accounts.
- Dental insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- 401(k) with company matching contribution.
- Wellness program with financial rewards.
- Company-paid life insurance.
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
- Options to purchase additional life insurance for the employee, spouse, and child, and additional employee long-term disability insurance.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Tuition benefits, including professional certifications.
- Employee referral program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
